If the video doesn’t play in your web broswer, click here to view it. Writing isn’t easy, but neither is job hunting during a career change. You’ll need regular money coming in whilst you make the transition from 9-5, to boss of your own company. Unfortunately there are many unscrupulous people out there looking to take advantage […]
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I’m supposed to have read and critiqued about 12,000 words by this evening for 2 submissions made to my writers group. I haven’t even started and I feel awful about it. It’s not that I don’t want to read the submissions (quite the contrary), but all the work I’m trying to do just keeps piling […]
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John’s Oxford English Dictionary defines editing as; ‘a process that reduces grown adults to tears in less than 60 seconds’. You spend a huge bulk of your time writing a play, a short story, a 30 page report you’re due to present at a meeting, or in my case the second of many novels I […]
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First I’d like to apologise for nearly ‘Hulking Out’ over the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. You can read about it here if you don’t believe me, or if you’re reading this in your email browser, just scroll to the bottom. I discovered (as many have) that getting angry is very easy, which […]
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So the EU referendum results in the UK have come in and 52% of the voting electorate have chosen to leave with 48% wanting to remain. I think I went through the 5 stages of grief over the course of the morning. At first I couldn’t believe it, then I got really angry, then I went […]
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