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I’m reviewing the situation
Words from Lionel Bart’s marvellous ‘Oliver’ where Fagin considers his position. At the moment, I’m working to a deadline. The submission date for the Write Now competition is 1st December – this...
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All wound up
This will be a short post. I am off to Seahouses, Northumberland at silly o’clock tomorrow morning. Seahouses Harbour by Simon Swales As you may remember*, I was long-listed for the Mslexia Children’s...
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Chuck chuck chuck chuck chicken…
…lay a little egg for me. Tomorrow finds me on a train to Frome in Dorset before I attend a Golden Egg Academy workshop on Saturday & Sunday. I’m making a day of it and intend to explore a wee bit....
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Rather wince than die
“Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.” Emily Dickinson to mentor Thomas Wentworth...
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One Writer, Two Masters
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and...
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Overdoing it
My glamorous and talented belly-dance instructress, Jenn will tell you that overdoing it is one of my failings. She does an elegant hip drop with languid grace – I do a great dump of a thing more like...
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Goes with the territory
In case you hadn’t guessed from all my recent posts, I’m busy editing. I am doing it with the help of the rather marvellous Book Map© courtesy of The Golden Egg Academy. I shan’t steal their thunder –...
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Now we’re cooking
I am currently enjoying a sojourn at Retreats for You in deepest Devon where my hostess Deborah cooks lovely food. This goes down well – and unsurprisingly led me to thinking about cookery and...
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Landscape – with editor
Study by David Pott After over six weeks of lying in a metaphorical drawer, I am looking at one of my scripts. The frenzy that was NaNoWriMo certainly meant I wasn’t thinking about it during that...
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Edited Highlights
Friendly fashionistas, surgeons and murder all appear in this week’s post. SOME years ago, my best friend took me to an astonishing shop in Low Ackworth, Yorkshire. I needed to get smartened up for...
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Ravens and writing desks
A reference to Nina’s own work – which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. Recently my writing colleague, fellow SCBWI and friend Nina Wadcock asked if anyone would be her Beta reader. I volunteered straight...
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Interregnum
Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper Apparently, an interregnum is the period between two reigns. In English History, it can refer to the time between Charles I ‘s execution and the arrival of Charles II,...
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