Tag Archives: Theatre

Pop Up Theatre Comes to Leith

Image: Siege Perilous Mad at Marketing A rather hectic day as it turned out. The 3 Ebook Deal began to take off in the evening, with word of mouth actually having a visible effect on visits to the promo page, … Continue reading

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Piecing Together a Plot

Image: Row Three Workshop Over lunch, I wrote and posted the revised version of part 2 of the fourth exercise at the Advanced Dialogue workshop. I’ve edited in a sentence or two to subtly indicate where the antagonism is coming … Continue reading

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Ranfurly Review 16 Now Available

Image: Ranfurly Review It feels like Friday. It feels like it should be Friday. Maybe getting an #FF this morning is what confused me, because for one glorious moment I hoped it was be Friday. Alas, it’s only Thursday. The … Continue reading

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Masterplan

Image: Patrick Hoesly Saturday was a fun day. Up and out the house early but not to a coffee shop or anything like that, to Waverley train station and the 10am to Glasgow Queen Street. My target destination: St Mirren … Continue reading

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Macaroni Day

Image: noellium Pretty tired this morning. Not from being up extraordinarily late last night but from a very early start this morning. There’s a lot happening today ranging from training courses to writing and a fair bit of website work, … Continue reading

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The Submission Discipline

Image: Umberto Salvagnin One of my things I decided to pay more attention to this year was keeping up the level of submissions I have out and ensuring they get turned around after a rejection as quickly as possible. It … Continue reading

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Designing The Promo Material

Image: Eternal Press/Colin Galbraith Shattered. I was up late last night doing the promotional artwork for my impending Stella marketing campaign. I’ve ordered a whole bunch of juicy stuff that I will be using to promote the book from one … Continue reading

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Saturday Morning On Sunday

Image: DDS I was kind of glad the weekend finished when it did. It was all over the place and at times not in the least enjoyable. Parts of it were, though, so they are the bits I’ll talk about. … Continue reading

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Culture Vultures

Image: http://www.mckellen.com I had a wonderful day off work yesterday (Wednesday). I met my mum off the bus from Glasgow and we had a wee day to ourselves, and as it turned out, one to remember. After a morning coffee … Continue reading

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A Small Tragedy

There was an email from the Scottish NaNoWriMo ML in my inbox this morning. I get them sporadically throughout the year, but they tend to increase in the lead up to November’s writing marathon. This particular email reminded me there … Continue reading

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