Month: June 2015

Guess who? (Now updated.)

The internet is surely a strange and wondrous thing. There’s so much information whizzing around that you can easily miss something interesting.Not so long ago I added a blogpost to www.strictlywriting.blogspot.co.uk, a ‘sister’ blog that I have curated for a virtual group of writers. From time to time we get the usual viagra, earn a …

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Crit Lit

Mountains and snow – they go together like books and critics. Writers love feedback. It’s like getting free samples on a visit to a sweet factory – first and foremost we’re glad to be there at all and then there are extra goodies. What’s not to like? Funny you should ask that! Does anyone remember acid …

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Perhaps…you’re a writer?

Perhaps…you’re a writer? With all due respects to Mr Kipling’s exceedingly good prose. If you can keep your word count when all about you    Are losing theirs and blaming it on ‘responsibilities’,    If you can trust your plot when your inner critic doubts you, But make allowance for some valid observations too;    …

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A Numbers Game

Safety in numbers? I love the poetry of numbers, and the certainty. Two minuses added together (or multiplied) result in a positive number. Prime numbers conform to agreed rules – although I have read fierce debates over the inclusion of 1 and 2. And that ‘adding up to 9’ rule is very handy when it …

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