Archive for March, 2012
March 12 – Update
I love March. It’s the month I was born; time for spring to join us and usually the month when we take a full week off work. We’ve also had the bonus of great weather for the last week. We took advantage and drove out into Derbyshire. I took a sunny photograph of some daffodils by […]
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Tags: Bakewell, Derbyshire, E-book, Easter, Goals, photography, Reading, Writing
A Twitter One Night Stand?
I kept reading that an aspiring writer needed to have an on-line presence. I joined Twitter last September and read articles and blog posts about the different strategies you could adopt to build your following. After a few weeks I had a massive following of 20 people and my strategy was to start following other […]
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Tags: Full breakfast, humour, Kindle, Online Communities, Social media, Trending and Popularity, Twitter
Steel City Writers – The Book
I’ve mentioned before that I’m part of a writing group. We met during a creative writing course with the Open University and decided to keep in touch and support each other with our writing. We meet about once a month and at one of the first meetings talked about publishing an e-book of our work. […]
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Tags: Anthology, Creative writing, E-book, Flash Fiction, Open University, Reading, Smashwords, Steel City Writers, Writing
The Magical 50k word barrier
When I finished the re-write of chapter 15 my spreadsheet tracking tool told me that I had gone over the 50k words mark. Yippee! I know I’m sad posting a picture of my spreadsheet, but Shannon Howell posted something similar in an update about last month and I thought it was a good idea. Maybe […]
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Tags: Crime fiction, Fiction, photography, Spreadsheet, spring, Writing
It has been a great few months in blogland and I am humbled to have been nominated for more awards. When I received my first blogging award I wasn’t sure about the awards thing, but I’ve realised that it is a great way to pass on thanks and support to fellow bloggers. I appreciate the […]
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Tags: Blog award, Blogosphere, Liebster, Liebster Blog Award, Nomination, Versatile Blogger Award, West Wing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 286 KB Publisher: Public Domain Books (1 Oct 1994) Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. Language English Overview (Courtesy of Amazon.co.uk) A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints […]
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Tags: Classics, Dorian Gray, eclectic reading challenge, English language, Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
It’s my birthday
As the title of the post suggests, today is my birthday. The weather has improved over the last couple of weeks. In fact, just a few days ago week we had WARM weather. It was 14 degrees! The daffodils and crocus were starting to flower and it was the time when you believed that spring […]
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