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January 31 2012 5:30 pm
I’ve blogged about The River of Stones before, but today is the last one, a month of looking, noticing, absorbing, writing. Choosing the stone to write each day has been great fun, although much more challenging than I had expected. One of the best things has been sharing the stones with others... read more
January 26 2012 10:02 am
Sometimes it seems the only thing that matters these days is MARKETING. You have to network, plug, sell, tell, promote … on and on … you have to be out there shouting from the rooftops: Look at me! I’m here! If you’re a writer that means ‘building an author platform’. Writing,... read more
January 17 2012 12:04 am
This January I’m taking part in the River of Stones. This is an idea, set up by Fiona Robyn of Writing Our Way Home where people – from all over the world – write a small stone every day in January. The idea of the small stone is that you give... read more
January 6 2012 2:05 pm
Writing competitions are everywhere now. Novel, short story, flash fiction, poetry, published, unpublished, self-published – the list goes on and on. Each one motivating us to get on and finish a piece of writing, or sending us back into our cocoon of procrastination. If I don’t enter, I can’t fail.... read more