The Writers Workout – 3 Serial Focus
Number 3 is about focus, the coach states that you cannot finish anything until you have focus. This is what is needed to make a career out of writing. It is said that many people can have a one hit wonder but only the career writers have focus. I fit into the category of someone…
Job interview and goals
I am again at an impasse. I am at a point in my professional life where its time for a new challenge so I have started looking for another job. As part of this I attended an interview yesterday fro a team leader position of a Finance Systems team. This highlighted that some of my…
Cineworld Unlimited
Cineworld Cinemas have a scheme where you pay £17.40 a month and can go to the cinema as much as you like, this also includes 10% off food & drink and 25% off a few places to eat. I had this card before and really didn’t get the use out of it, Cineworld will have…
It’s beginning to look a lot like…
I wish… the weather has changed in the last week from warms days where it’s hard to concentrate in the office because of the heat to me having to close the windows to keep warm while working. I must admit to hoping for the cooler weather to come, but I like the happy medium. We…
Waiting for fame….
This is me…. I have a dream of being a well known published writer, of writing something and then earning enough that I can clear my debts and then finally write full time. I would love this, but to get to this point I would have to actually get off my ass and do some…
Google Glass banned while driving
It’s not really surprising but the government is preempting the release of Google Glass in the UK by banning people from wearing them. Not really surprising given how distracting it would be having images or anything playing across your vision while driving. I t would cause some crazy crashes sooner or later, I would have…
The drawn-out dream
I was reading a writing article which talked about not ending your book with a cliché. The article then went on to list some of them. One of them struck a cord with me, this was the drawn out dream, meaning at the end of the book your protagonist wakes up and finds out the…
Tough Guy 2015
The time is almost here when I go down to Wolverhampton for the bi annual race at Tough Guy. This year it seems allot colder than last year and that should being it back to what it was like a few years ago. I am looking forward to being back with the special forces and…
Writing Meetup
I have joined a few writing groups over the years and they all end up where no one talks for weeks on end and nothing seems to happen. So, this year I started a writing group with a fellow writer from one of the other groups. Called Northern Writers, I didn’t want to have something…