Bookshops

Went to a carboot the other day and there is a permanent book/video shop there is a shed of some sort. It hasn’t been open when I have been before but was this time so i called in. Loads of books, looks like an old fashioned bookshop, I liked it. Plenty of books in the…

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Blackpool Illuminations

Well we managed to get on the Heritage Train this time, the wife was very pleased. But I think it is over hyped, it was a nice ride for over an hour right from one end of Blackpool to the other, but as you are in the train I think it really isn’t he best…

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Motivation

“Motivation is a theoretical construct used to explain behaviour” I’m a big guy, I wasn’t always like this it started with getting with my wife and slowly crept up on me. I know the saying goes I woke up one day and I was fat, people say how can that happen. You must have seen…

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The death of the book – Not!

I keep reading articles talking about the death of the printed book as the Ebook revolution continues. It always makes me smile. Given the calls when the DVD was released that CD’s were a dead format and the same calls when BluRay was standardised that the DVD was dead. yet both formats are being produced…

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You write, so you are a writer!

I have been thinking for a while as do most writers what constitutes a writer, when would I consider myself to be a writer. When is it a hobby as opposed to a calling etc… Imposter Syndrome is a big thing for writers, how many times have I been asked what I do outside of…

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Sad writing magazine news

Some sad news in the world of writing and magazines. It’s not like people found out from any kind of announcement, I hadn’t seen an official announcement on the internet. The latest issue came out and in the editor’s message he broke the news that this magazine was the last and the publisher had decided…

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New Year

I hesitate to use the word resolutions, but 2014 is going to be the year for blogging for me. As I move closer to being finished with Uni I am planning to launch my writing career and finally getting published. Until I have the time to do this though, I am going to get myself…

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