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Penicuik Arts Festival
I spent last Saturday at the Penicuik Arts Festival. I’d been invited by my friends James and Mhairi, both locals who have in the past taken an interest in my writing. i had two events: a ‘Meet the Author’ event … Continue reading
Sometimes it Pays to be Bold
<t able style=”float: left;” border=”0″ width=”170″> Image: Alliance Online A good day. A very good day. Workshop I worked through and revised the final exercise on the Advanced Dialogue course. The next stage will come after the course, so I’m … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Writing
Tagged advanced course, agents, author, birthday, dialogue, eating out, eBooks, emails, Friday Vid, GDR's, Newhaven, novella, pays to be bold, Peacock Inn, Publishing and Marketing, work review, workshop, Writing
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Indian Summer
Image: Fernlea Hotel Summertime Really slow and warm day yesterday, and I mean really slow and warm. In fact, it was slower than a fish swimming through jelly, and warmer in the Athens of the North than it was in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Film & TV, Scotland, Writing
Tagged (Unofficial) Edinburgh Book Festival Blog, Athens, Blogging, cinema, Clive Owen, dialogue, Edinburgh, flix, GDR's, heat, Indian Summer, Jason Statham, Killer Elit, Literary Salon, movie, Ocean Terminal, Robert De Niro, Savvy Authors, summertime, West Port, West Port Book Festival, workshop, Writing
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Culture in Glasgow
Image: Samantha Nicol It’s been some weekend! I started last Friday off with a very large and strong black coffee (apparently this is called an Americano in some places—places I now avoid) and a healthy and bountiful morning roll with … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Theatre, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alishan Tandoori, Cafe Ludovic, Citizens Theatre, City of Literature, Clockwork Pub, culture, Culture in Glasgow, Dropbox, Edinburgh, Ena Lamont Stewart, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Indian meal, Literary Salon, Men Should Weep, Merchant City, Mount Florida, sisters, Sizzlers, Sloan's pub, The Sky Project, UNESCO, workshop, Writing
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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
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Scotland, Video, Writing
Tagged children, Citizens Theatre, dialogue, draft, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh councillors, Family, Fiction, Friday Vid, Glasgow, Indian meal, kids, Kilmarnock, Leith, Leith Walk, Men Should Weep, paranormal, performance poetry, play, plot, poems, Poetry, road works, Savvy Authors, spy thriller, Stella, The Sky Project, Theatre, tram works, trams, Video, workshop, Writing
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EBS Event: Alistair Darling
Image: The Guardian Alistair Darling Alistair Darling was in town last night to promote his new book, Back From the Brink, “a first-hand account of the (economic) crisis of 2007, and a fascinating view of life inside the Downing Street … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Interviews, Politics, Writing
Tagged Alistair Darling, author event, Back From the Brink, Blue Drill Hall, Books, Chancellor of the Exchequer, charity, Conservative, Downing Street, economic crash, economics, Edinburgh Bookshop, Eleanor Updale, exhibition, Fiction, Gordon Brown, John Cooper Clarke, Labour, Northern Rock, Poetry, Politics, RBS, short story, The Dublin Quarterly, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, workshop, Writing
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Dreamworks
Image: Dreamworks Dream Resolve It was a weekend of squeezing; squeezing all that I could out of the time available and trying to get through as much as possible. There’s a lot going on, both on the writing front and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Alistair Darling, annual plan, CDs, charity, cooks, DIY, dreams, Dreamworks, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Bookshop, Eleanor Updale, exhibition, GDR, GDR's, iTunes, JA Konrath, Kindle, magazine, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Savvy Authors, Simon van Booy, The Sky Project, Trees for Life, vinyl, work, workshop, Writing
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Four and a Bit Decades
Image: Wikimedia Anniversary My parents, Dave and Ena, were married 41 years ago today. Yes, that’s two score and one years ago – four decades and a bit – they took their vows in Mount Florida Parish on the south … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Reading, Websites, Writing
Tagged 41, anniversary, Books, boudoir, coding, decades, Devon Ellington, dialogue, eBooks, forty one, four decades, Glasgow, JA Konrath, Jack Daniels, Kindle, marriage, Mount Florida, Origin, parents, Reading, scenes, web development, websites, wedding, workshop, Writing
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Changing Reading Habits Thanks to the Kindle
Image: Orionwell Reading Habits Hot on the heels of finishing the brilliant One Day, I started reading another novel, this time a JA Konrath book, an author I discovered while on holiday in Rhodes during the summer. I started Origin, … Continue reading
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A Thank You to Steve Jobs
Image: Unknown RIP Steve Jobs Woke up to the sad news that Steve Jobs died in the early hours of the morning. Shocking to hear it come through although not entirely unexpected; it was public knowledge he had been seriously … Continue reading →