No, the image is not a Magic Eye picture of ET smiling, it’s the remainder of our much-loved, but much-addled Lawson’s Cypress tree from our garden. When we could see right through one of the candelabra trunks and the split on two of them extended up from the base, it was clear that action needed …
Month: February 2011
Cloud and Proud
Sometimes it’s great to just kick back, forget the creative deadlines you’ve imposed upon yourself like a cross between the Marquis de Sade and a desperate novelist, and just play with words. As I’m a visual learner (I read that in a book once), I was delighted to receive an email from fellow novelist Warren …
Where the web-links live
Here are some web-links for my writing on the net: Fiction Cold Heart – Dark Valentine magazine The Seeds of Happiness – Stories that Lift Saturday Night – Molotov Cocktail magazine The Silent Hills – Also contracted to Musa Publishing – 14/10/2011 – 13/10/2014. Through the Veil – hyperFeedia Night Train – Fiction 365 Political …
The best writing job ever – by which I mean the worst
I don’t know exactly what it is that draws me time and time again to trawling the Internet for writing gigs. Could it be the great clients I’ve met along the way and even the not so great? Maybe. Could it be the rich diversity of business requirements across three continents? Yep, that would be …
Well, this is a novelty
I like to think that I’ve experienced most of the surprises that freelancing has to offer, but don’t count your chickens – or your clients – before they’re hatched. I recently ticked off a brand new one for the journal by firing a client. The client wasn’t a difficult person; they weren’t hard to get …
Duck
Someone got in touch with me recently about a computer query because, thanks to the combination of the magical letters IT and the extent of my perspective-less confidence, they naturally thought I could solve their problem. My friend had been contacted by phone and advised that their computer had been infected with a virus, which …