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My writing – going back to basics 4)

For those that have been following my blog recently you’ll know that I have signed up for the on-line master class series by the best-selling thriller writer James Patterson.  Now, thrillers are not my thing but the guy has sold millions of books world-wide so knows a thing or two about writing successful commercial fiction.  … Continue Reading →

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My monthly science highlights – 9)

How time flies when you are enjoying yourself, or at least blogging and before you know it it’s the end of the month and time for my personal round up of nuggets of interest from the world of science.  Again these are not in any order of importance, they are simply what has piqued my … Continue Reading →

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My writing – going back to basics 3)

At the risk of repeating myself I decided that a little help from an author than has sold millions of books world-wide couldn’t do any harm.  So I signed up for his masterclass and committed in my first blog on this subject to keep you posted as to how it goes and what I think … Continue Reading →

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My writing- going back to basics 2)

In last week’s blog I admitted that my books aren’t selling.  So I’m going to go back to basics with my writing, to see how I could improve that before looking more closely at marketing etc.  The idea being that if I know I have a good product I can then go ahead and sell … Continue Reading →

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My writing – I’m going back to basics

I admit it, my books are not selling.  Well not many anyway.  On my latest novel ‘Bleak – The story of a shape shifter’ I’ve spent some money on promotion but it is not even coming close to paying for itself.  I know this is common for self-published authors and I’ve ready many times that … Continue Reading →

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My monthly science highlights – 8)

The end of the month again and time for another dose of science inspiration.  The more I do this, the more I see ideas that only a few years ago were science fiction becoming science fact, or at least being talked about as a serious possibility.  So here are a few of the things that … Continue Reading →

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Writers – carry a camera

I’ve blogged before about the value to a writer of taking photographs, not just how they are good to refer to or use in a blog, such this one, but how it also makes you look at the world a little differently.  Following on from last week’s blog, writing makes you an observer, I feel … Continue Reading →

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Writing makes you an observer

I started writing in the last year I worked before taking a package and leaving an industry I’d been in for thirty years. Like big companies do they were reorganising which left me with little to occupy my time. So I had no excuse but to do what I’d always said I’d do which was … Continue Reading →

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Write because you love writing

On twitter I see offers all the time for, courses – how to write that block buster, that formula for success. I don’t believe them. I don’t mean that we can’t all learn, improve, sell better or whatever. It’s just that 1) I suspect that the only people making money out such things are those … Continue Reading →

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My monthly science round-up – 7)

So here we go with the seventh of my monthly science round-ups. As I have said before these are not in any order of importance, nor are the necessarily ‘important’ just because I have included them. They are simply those things that have caught my eye, tweaked my interest and imagination as I’ve scanned the … Continue Reading →

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