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This week / Last week... (depending on when you read this, because weeks have a funny way of running on, like cabbages down a gangplank)

Writing Industries Conference

Last Saturday, 9th February 2008, I attended the Writing Industries Conference at Loughborough University. I wrote about my part in it in my blog last week but not about the whole shebang.
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Breaking into Commercial Fiction

I've just got back from Loughborough Uni where I was attending the Writing Industries Conference. It was a great day.

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Mouse trap and Hardy Boys

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2020

Mouse trap and Hardy Boys book. Loved them both. 
 

You could have him going around the whole town then you'd have a novel right there - like that book of micro stories of every passenger on a tube train. 
 

 

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I enjoyed reading this too

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020

I enjoyed reading this too this morning. 

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Posted in The Village 5

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This beautiful story of

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020

This beautiful story of finding common ground between species / beings is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!  Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.  

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Agreed. A ray of hope. 

Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020

Agreed. A ray of hope. 

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Glisk and glassiness work so

Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020

Glisk and glassiness work so well together. 
 

As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still. 

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Love it. Congratulations. 

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

Love it. Congratulations. 

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The poem is sentimental in

Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020

The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...

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Another really brilliant

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture. 

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Posted in Barn Owls

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Agree with the above and I

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...

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I liked this - quickly sets

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...

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