Procrastination and NaNo

“Anyone who procrastinates will find it difficult to get published. You have to work, every day, on improving your craft. Otherwise, you won’t improve” This quote was in Writing Magazine on October 19 by Vaseem Khan. It struck a chord with me as I am one of these people. I do the odd post on…

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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…

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Text speak

I don’t like it…. I am one of those people that when I write a text it is grammatically correct, this mystifies some of the people I know. Whereas when I see people typing in text it drives me crazy. I know people that write in full text speak and more often than not I…

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Film crazy

So, your a cop and your after a bunch of criminals…… where do you search, the city…. no! Just head for the closest abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the city, that’s where you will find them… Then again, as my friends often tell me if I was in charge there would be no films…

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Remarkable…

I have spent the last few weeks watching videos on Readers and eInk displays. I have a Kindle Scribe coming and today I have just ordered the Remarkable Paper Pro. A very expensive device and between the two that’s over 1k I have spent in a couple of purchases. I am banking a lot on…

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Scams Awareness Month

That’s right people its Scam awareness month, time to start looking at those messages for what they really are…. a load of rubbish. Literally 5 minutes ago I was looking at my Facebook account and another person I know has “shared” a photo of a load of Macbooks that “cannot” be sold as they have…

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Post Nano

It’s the 6th December so this is a bit late but happy to say that I managed to complete NaNo 2018. Really happy that I managed to keep it going this year. I had steady progress throughout the month. I also think that this year the writing group and the Darlo NaNo group were a…

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