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  • Who am I? ~ My Personal Journey into Writing ~ The Next Phase

    In the last couple of weeks I feel I’ve been nudged towards the next phase in my personal journey as a writer.. 1.Admitting that’s what I am…. ‘a writer and author.’ “A person is defined less by who they are than what they do.” I have been teaching for nearly 30 years and being a…

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  • Christmas Ode to Writers Everywhere

    Switch off Twitter and turn off feeds to your phone I know it’s really tempting but leave your blog alone. Meet your friends in person and to facebook turn your back Give your famly in Australia a call. Now who had thought of that? Click save on your documents making back ups on your cloud Leave your…

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  • Are you a Hare or a Tortoise in your writing?

    The Hare and the Tortoise Some writers are hares. They are either fortunate or blessed with amazing talent to write a best seller first time or they go haring off in search of success. A writer’s race is an individual one. Of course the eyes of the world see us competing with each other to…

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  • Writing is like Gardening – A Personal Approach

    Blog writing, in fact all writing is personal. I’ve looked at other blogs and thought, should I be more organised and have my categories in careful lists, for example, rather than as a topics cloud, or have neat tabs for efficient and quick retrieval;  but I’ve decided just to be myself and keep to my own…

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  • Writers’ Time Management – I should be so lucky!

    I have two precious days per week to write. I’m so lucky. Oh, just wait a minute – I can hear that the washing machine’s just finished. Be back in a mo……………… Hi again. Where was I? Oh yes. I like to start to write early. I spend some time getting my thoughts together, rereading my previous work and then…

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  • Is a blog writer really a writer?

    The term ‘writer’ had blurred at the edges with new technology, so has the term ‘published writer’. All sorts of people are honing their skills in producing the written word by starting a blog in an area of their interest. Because they are doing it for free, does it mean that they are no less…

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  • The Albion Writers’ Group?

    I don’t know what motivated me to suggest a local writer’s group in Ampthill. The reasons I gave last night were networking, support, encouragement and promotion. Not to mention the greater good of thinking of ways to promote our local bookshop and maybe set our sights on a Literacy Festival some time in the future.…

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  • The Many Layers of Proof Reading – A personal experience

    I have learnt so much since my early years of writing a decade ago and something I’ve discovered quite by chance is that proof reading has many layers: The writing in progress – layer of proof reading At the end of every writing session I have tried to get into the habit of printing out…

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