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Tag Archives: time
Time is Tight and the Scotrail Fiasco Rumbles On
Image: FoxNoMad Tight with Time Things are starting to get tight with time and for once it’s NOT to do with the eternal battle between the day job and my writing career. This time, it’s Christmas versus DIY. The house … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, eBooks, Family, Leith, Poetry, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Art, art students, assault, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas presents, Christmas tree, decoration, DIY, eBooks, free ebooks, giveaway, home, House, illustrations, iMac, iPhone, Kamila Ratajczak, Leith, Leith School of Art, living room, loung, novels, Scotland, Scotrail, Silly Poems for Wee People, thrillers, ticket dodgers, time, time is tight, train, violence
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Achieving a Balance in Literary Magazines
Image: Eden Arts Finding the Time That’s me on the full 8am till 5pm day shift for the rest of the week—the holiday is over. What it means is I lose time on other projects because I don’t have time … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged application, City of Literature Trust, Day Job, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Editing, Haiki, literary magazines, literature, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, rejections, Story Shop, Submissions, time, Trees for Life, Writing
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The Coffee Shop Jinx
Image: Sustainable Sushi Hellish Sunday, simply hellish. To kick things off I was totally bemused as to the correct time when I rolled over and saw it was almost 9:30am. Assuming I’d slept in but unable to figure out why … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged Boots the Chemist, BST, Cafe Nero, coffee shop, Costa Coffee, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, GDR's, GMT, HMV, NaNoWriMo, Princes Street, time, Writing
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Making Time For Things
Image: Sara Petagna It’s a glorious morning outside. After a Friday that saw the clouds and rain return, and a Saturday that didn’t really know what it wanted, today I look out of my office window and the sky is … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing
Tagged Blogging, Books, chores, Day Job, dinner, drink, e-book, Eternal Press, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, home, Publishing and Marketing, Stella, sunshine, time, Weather, Writing
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