tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317937002012-01-30T19:07:56.640+11:00Travelling the world one step, and one book, at a time...An Inconsistent Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492562664447647639noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31793700.post-56359113885184684152012-01-19T23:54:00.000+11:002012-01-19T23:54:19.185+11:00

I can't sleep. I'm sitting on the lounge watching a documentary about Roxy Music (coz a long time ago I kind of liked some of their songs), sipping a herbal tea brew called "Sweet Dreams", and randomly typing words that I hope will be somewhat readable at the end. I was given a journal for Christmas with the title "I Can't Sleep" and a relative quote every few pages. It's purpose is to fill

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though I do miss this blog. I switched to wordpress. I know, my bad. But I couldn't help it. Wordpress had all these new gadgety things, and different formats and looked realy pretty. Yes, I am attracted by bright lights and pretty things. But I do miss blogger so I've come back for a quick visit. I've found in the past year, that while wordpress looks a little prettier there are some

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I'm wondering - does the increasing taste for women's literature, biographies on women (middle-aged or older), chick flicks and Jane Austen mean I have entered the pre-menopause stage of life?Have any studies been completed on this? I'd really like to know.Twenty years ago it was all fantasy all the time... well, most of the time. Now, it's like (yawn) read one read them all. Give me a story

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I actually finished reading this a few weeks ago and though I found the characters a bit pretentious at the beginning by about half way through I became used to their foibles and had settled in to enjoy the story.Naturally, I liked Mr George Knightley, he being the "hero" of the story and all, and thought it obvious that he was hopelessly in love with Emma. Even better, of course, that he loved

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copied from: Coffee at Peace blogI am experimenting with web marketing for an event. My goal is to increase awareness by having lots of mentions all over the place (ambient advertising, I suppose). I'm not sure if it's working as I'm waiting for hit reports on our website .So, I thought I'd do a bit of writing to track the process.Step 1.Blogging - Creation of the Coffee @ Peace blog. Aim of the

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I've always loved Price and Prejudice though it's been years since I read it. I blame that on the great BBC series which has replaced the need to reread. Especially as my youngest girl fell in love with the series and over the last 12 months I've watched it many many times. Also the Keira Knightley version which I also love. Matthew McFayden does a brilliant job of Mr. Darcey as does Keira of

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Coffee @ PeaceI've been having a great time over the last few months working on the marketing for a coffee festival being held down my way in July. My way is Sutherland (just south of Sydney).The Shire Coffee Festival or Coffee @ Peace will be on Sunday 12 July so we are daily praying for good winter weather. July is usually a fairly good month here in Sydney. March and April are usually damp,

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Before the fires...Photos taken by Kathy and appear on her Facebook page.

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I took a trip down to the Yarra Valley in Victoria last weekend (27 Feb - 1 Mar). An early morning flight from Sydney, car hire from Tulla. airport (snazzy baby blue Getz) and an hour drive south-eastish (I've never been great with compass directions. From the airport we took a left, a right and didn't stop until we reached Yarra Glen).We were expecting fairly hot weather, but found it a little

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The low Road by Chris Womersley My review rating: 3 of 5 starsAn interesting read wavering between depressing, confronting and " eye-opening". Eye-opening I think not in the actual story but in the way it is told, the words and descriptions used. Skirting close to the edge of description overload at times yet so observant and original that it doesn't matter.A story around an anti-hero of a

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The Great Arch by Vicki HastrichMy reviewrating: 3 of 5 starsThis book is about the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, its impact on the city and residents, and the toll it collected from the workmen who brought it to life. The Bridge plays a central role in Sydney culture today, learning a bit about its birth, I think, needs to be included in teaching Australian history. Not just for the

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The Good Mayorby Andrew Nicoll The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll My review rating: 4 of 5 starsThe Good Mayor was recommended by a friend who wasn't sure quite what to make of it, but was fairly sure she liked it, even maybe loved it. So I took it home and started to read and was about a quarter the way through when I realised that i was hooked, but on what? The story, the characters, the

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This week..,when I grow up I want to be an event planner/decorator. I actually am an event coordinator already, however, I would like my own event business. The only trouble is,1. I like doing all the creative stuff not necessarily the boring businessy type stuff. I can do it (the boring businessy stuff, that is), but I've always found that as soon as someone shows any type of flair for this side

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SWF is held every May at one of my favourite spots to be in Sydney - Walsh Bay, under the Harbour Bridge. The same area is home to Sydney Theatre Company, Bangara Dance Group and, I believe though I could be wrong on this one, Sydney Dance Company. Tucked away on the piers are several other theatre companies, dance groups, cafes and million-dollar homes and boats.But back to the Writers Festival.

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Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meetsthe bone.-- Miller Williams

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I feel the new title reflects my writing nature and production. What do you think?I've just switched to broadband and now that it doesn't take "hours" to do anything on the internet, decided an update on the old blog was past due.Good news. I do have a couple of pieces in the works that I plan to post shortly. Really!Some bits on marketing and some pieces on Darwin. I may even throw in a book

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Australian's love a reason for a big party and Australia Day is dedicated to just that.It's not all party-fun though. January 26th started being celebrated as Australia Day in 1935. The party theme didn't really kick in until 1994. We may be slow but we sure know how to have a good time.The history of this date is quite important in Australia being the day, in 1788, that Captain Arthur Phillip

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For Christmas 2007, a bunch of family members decided that getting together on Christmas Day was not going to be doable without truck loads of stress, so we’d hang out after Christmas. And, instead of doing the usual showing up at someone’s place with some food and an esky full of cold drinks [alcoholic or otherwise], we’d congregate somewhere public where cleaning up meant dumping all empties

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MS Word 2007When I bought my new computer a few months ago, it came with Vista. My old software didn’t like the change so, of course, I needed to upgrade my MS suite to the latest version. Grrrr! It’s not that I don’t like change. Really, I love learning new stuff, but MS Word 2007 has got me by the short and... well, let’s just say that it has not been fun.I’ll grant that I am slowly learning

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Anasazi Series by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and Michael Gear The Visitant The Summoning God Bonewalker I did the silliest of things with this series of books. Somewhere inside my fading brain I told myself that these three books were not a series but just happened to be set in similar times. I was half way between book three before I realised that there was obviously something to be

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The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaI picked up this novel in a sale and put it aside to read during a recent break from the real world. Waiting the few weeks between point-of-sale and point-of-reading was nearly painful, but worth the torture. I sat up in bed the first night of my retreat from life and dived right in. Not having read the back-cover blurb since the book store, I’d forgotten what

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I was going to title this post New Beginnings, but really, my current project is not new at all but a continuation of an old project.With one novel just starting the rounds of publishers, I'm working on getting my next more finished than what it was. That is, it sat "finished" at 30,000 words. Not enough, but I couldn't think what else to do with it. Giving it a break of a year [or so] and having

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or what I learned on the weekend...1. Spring days are the best days2. Little Athletics is hard work [for the parents that is, the kids have got it easy!]3. Orchids are beautiful4. Spending a few hours on a warm spring day is much more preferrable to attending to laundry needs5. Having a coffee with your best bud is a predestined event that you shouldn't bother trying to fight.Somewhere in that

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Back to this writer’s retreat. As of this exact point of writing time [late August 2007], I am nearing the end of day one.At the exact moment in time after the above, I switched from writing this to working on my novel [that is why I’m here] so now I’m at the end of day 3. Sorry about that but let me fill you in.I’ve had two sessions with the creative director who is a marvellously sincere

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Back when I used to commute 45 minutes each way to work by train, I read a lot. Or, if I'd had a big night, I dozed or put the minutes toward thinking. It was really easy to do. On the way to work, I knew to start paying attention to stops as soon as the train went underground. My stop was the second one into the subway. On the way home, no worries at all. My stop was at the end of the line

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Remember how I said at the beginning that this story was originally intended to be part fictional? It occurred to me that the only really fictional part was my character, the hapless writer being run over by a tourist bus. I will endeavour to avoid such a tragedy and keep that event as fictional as possible.In the meantime, let’s look at the crooked path a writer needs to travel before reaching

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I've been subscribed to David's blog for a few months now and it's one of the few I regularly check back on, save the email notices for new articles, search through for information and comment on.David is an Irish graphic designer with a great website full of informative information [currently term of the month in my house] on a great variety of topics from advertising & marketing to design & art

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The Oft Beaten PathBeing the [mis] Adventures of a Struggling AuthorThis was going to start out as a short story. A quickie if you will, about an author – part auto-biographical, part fictionalised – who after years of writing and re-writing novels, novellas, short fiction, articles and the odd play or two [most of it unpublished], goes on a writing retreat to the mountains. From the moment she

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After being virtually rendered computerless by phone lines that wouldn't work, connections that wouldn't stay connected and a creakingly old computer, I am well on my way to being back in the world of the cyber-living.My phone line is fixed and I'll soon be getting broadband.My old pc has been retired and a sparkling new model adopted.And I have a pile of articles to post to this blog.... just as

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I'm having a bit of a brain drain this week. Over the last couple of weeks I've had to fine tune a logo design, create a publicity flyer and research/develop a handbook for the local Little Athletics Club. At work, I've been creating and finetuning several flyers, webpages, and information packages for various events and arts programs. In between all that creating I've been researching local

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I first heard this word a couple of years ago when I was talking to a colleague about Australian Aboriginal culture and philosophy. The word can be a bit of a tongue-twister (though perhaps that's just me) but the meaning behind it fascinated me. I also found out, after some research, that although I hadn't heard this particular term before, the concept was not new (to me) and is often the

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I've already written an article on my dyslexic fingers. If you've read it, you may have thought I was joking. I've decided to write this entire article without editing any of it.1. this will show you how bad my "condition" can be. I am a trained touch-typist capable of around 80 - 90 words per minute on a good day and used to be able to attain that level without a single eorror.2. I hope to also

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I'm researching for a new novel and thought I'd share a few notes on the books I'm using. So, if you're interested in Celtic culture & history, this one's for you:The Apple Branch: a path to celtic ritual written by Alexei Kondratiev and published by The Collins Press, Ireland - 1998ISBN: 1-898256-420XThis is a serious book for people really interested in bringing celtic ritual into their lives.

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that I had the time (and peace and quiet) to read every book on my "To Read" listthat I had the patience to sit down and teach myself to play a musical instrumentthat I could know for sure that everything I am teaching my children is the right stuff to be teaching themthat I could put 100% effort into everything instead of divvying it all upthat wine didn't make me tipsy after the second

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When I wrote this piece, I was aiming it at high school students. However, the information can help anyone whether they're still at school, at university or (like me) are well and truly out of the education system.Remember, that if you'd like to borrow any of my articles for your own web-site or simply to pass along to a friend, take my bio as well. My name and the url to Beginnings, Middles,

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If you're in the southern hemisphere of planet Earth, I hope you enjoyed a reasonably happy winter solstice and Yule. For those north of the equator, greetings on the recent summer solstice is in order. Hope the warm weather is treating you well. If you're not on the planet earth, thanks for reading and I hope the weather's great wherever you are.As I alternate typing with keeping my fingers warm

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Third and final part of Being a WriterArticles, books, essays, letter-writing [presumably] may be your interest. That's great! Start with articles and develop a list of things that interest you and/or that you know a lot about. Stop right there if you're thinking you know nothing! My first article idea list ever garnered me over 30 possible projects from childcare and women's health to travel and

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I've received some great feedback for my first ever ebook and wanted to share it with you. Writing takes more than talent and knowledge, it takes "butt in seat" work and a fair bit of determination. I'm so happy that I finally have something to show for the hours of typing and researching and planning...Hi Trish, I've just finished your e-book. Very informative and thanks for the mention! It must

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Pretty much the same goes for stories as it does for poetry. Pick up a pen or open a word processing document and write. Your first draft will form the basis from which you can add bits, take away other bits and work on things like plot, characters and dialogue. Everything we write needs a beginning, middle and an end so get an idea of what yours will be and write it down. This is your outline

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This post has just come up at Modern Matriarch. Go visit her blog for some samples of spoken poetry. This is a great idea and I hope it really catches on.Modern MatriarchPoetry: the Spoken WordWednesday, June 27th, 2007 in reading, audio clips, literature, poetry, writing, bloggingPoetry is an artform ment to be spoken; ment to be heard with the ear not scanned with the eyes. Hearing the words

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Does the urge to write poetry sometimes hit you when you least expect it? Don't worry about whether you produce good, bad or somewhere in between poetry. Pick up a pencil, grab a notebook and just write it. For the first draft, write whatever comes to you. You can polish it when the words are all out. Keep all your masterpieces in one notebook, something special if you can manage it and add

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If you have a secret desire to write stories or poems, if you feel the need to voice an opinion or share knowledge through the written medium, then that is enough to make you a writer. But, if you didn't go past highschool education, did not excel in English at school and aren't familiar with a lot of the technical aspects of writing, then you may be wondering where to start.The World Wide Web is

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Unite to Write is a collection of reprintable articles on a variety of topics such as: Herbs and plants Grief and widowhood Writing for Children Coping with Insomnia Freelance writing business know-how Do it yourself Home Repair Dealing with Coworkers Medical Articles Marketing and Networkingand I'm in it! I had completely forgotten about this, but one of the outcomes of the Article Challenge I

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It seems the subscription link is indeed working. Thank you for all those that responded. I'll have to resubscribe myself... perhaps it was all the bad weather we'd been having. Speaking of bad weather, it's batten down the hatches time here in Sydney. The latest weather reports have gale force winds, lots and lots of rain and even some hail expected later on tonight. The day started off quite

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I've just added a subscription button to my blog [over there on the left]. I'm not sure if it's working. Either I've done something wrong or my free subscription to Feedburner doesn't allow for blog subscriptions.I would greatly appreciate someone other than myself clicking on the icon and letting me know what happens after they've filled in the form. I especially want to know if the form is the

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I just wanted to add a few more words on the subject of misused words; pet peeves, if you will.lose/looseThese are two different words with two different meanings. "Loose" refers to things like, "loose change" or, "the cows are loose in the back paddock again, Ma!". That sort of thing."Lose" is related to "lost", like when you lose an aeroplane full of hapless people somewhere over the Pacific

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It has been raining for almost two days solid, wild winds to go with it. North of Sydney serious damage and deaths have occurred. Now, I'm told the real storm, as if what we've been experiencing isn't enough, is coming our way.My in-laws lost their verandah roof at 1am this morning. My brother-in-law and family have been without electricity for nearly 24-hours. I'm just thankful that I live where

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Here's a great article by freelance writer, Kendy Sproul. Drop in and visit her blog. She has some great words of advice and many other articles.TrishAMisused and AbusedAs a freelance writer and editor, the more I read, the greater my awareness of the confusion most of us experience over the correct use of English. And understandably so. You don't have to be uneducated to make mistakes that might

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I have put the final touches to my first free e-book - Plan to Write, Plan to Succeed. It's taken months to battle through the trenches of real life and all its demands. Now, I just have to figure out how to get it attached to this website!Plan to Write is a collection of articles, some already published, some written exclusively for the ebook focussing on the importance of planning. Whether

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Anosmia is the inability to smell and is more common than widely believed. If you suspect someone you know, or even yourself, is anosmic, you'll find some great info in the Ten Handy Links below. They include scientific, anecdotal and support information and contacts.Happy linking!1. http://www.anosmiafoundation.org/index.shtml2. http://www.maxuk.net/fascin.html out of date but some interesting

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Well, the Christmas break is just about over. In Australia, students are on holidays from just before Christmas until the end of January. That’s a whole lot of time where fitting in some writing is even harder than usual. I’m one of those people who require some peace and quiet in order to concentrate – at the very least, an absolute minimum of interruptions. Unfortunately, I’m also one of those

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I'm being brave this week and posting my picture to my blog [it's already at ezinearticles.com]. Brave, because I really dislike having my photo taken and, generally dislike, even more, the end result. But this one's okay. I was sitting in my father's backyard last ANZAC day - March 25th, and trying not to muck up yet another phototaking session. I much prefer to be the one doing the clicking...I

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I'm not sure if there's actually a medical condition [other than age maybe] that accounts for the growing tendency for my touchtyping-abled fingers to misplace the letters on my keyboard. It has the potential for embarrassment. After all, I'm meant to be a writer, therefore, what's the deal with all these typos?? I ask myself this question every day. Not only am I a writer, I'm also good at

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Beginnings, Middles and EndsThe missing month in article postings has been due to family problems that have now passed. I'll be back with some more articles soon. In the meantime, thank you to those people who have posted comments. I don't know who you all are, but I'm sure you're all wonderful people! You must be, to have taken the time to share a few words with the rest of us.Hope M's short

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Beginnings, Middles and EndsResearch, research, research Everything you write in the professional and academic [including high school] arena requires some sort of research. The level of research depends on what you're writing; non-fiction or fiction, article or book, a quick web piece [like this one] or in-depth fact-finding web page. It's the writer's job to gauge the amount of research needed,

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Hey, I've reached Expert Author status over at Ezinearticles.com. Drop in some time and read the wisdom of my words...The more people who read, rate and comment on my articles the more article feeds I'm likely to get, and hopefully, someone soon will offer to pay me for this stuff! lolhttp://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Trish_AndersonGood luck to Bridgit and Madelaine. Bridgit is nearly finished her

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Here's a related article on planning for a term paper. I like what Kathy has to say. How to Plan your Research of a Term PaperBy Kathy DeislerPlanning the research process is one of the most critical aspects of writing a term paper. The purpose of the research is to convert the retrieved data into meaningful information. Before one starts writing a term paper one has to organize their research

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Well, the trials for the NSW Higher School Certificate have well and truly started with many a student facing the pressure [already] of their final secondary exams with nervous stomachs, bloodless lips and more than one prayer that they don't screw things up. The results of the Higher School Certificate [and equivalents] determine eligibility to tertiary education, specific careers, and the

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"expert author" at http://EzineArticles.com/contributing author to http://www.writing4success.com/contributing author to www.heliumknowledge.comeditor of ArtBEAT - free community arts journal - http://www.sutherland.nsw.gov.au/ssc/rwpattach.nsf/viewasattachmentPersonal/15C48BDAB0D5BDCFCA25717E0004935C/$file/ArtBEAT_2006_jun_jul_aug.pdfcontributing author to http://up.to/

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I'm pleased to offer the following:Writing serviceGhostwritingWeb content and general articles Desktop publishing: creation and layout of newsletters, programs, menus etcPresentations: notes, speeches and powerpoint presentation development/adviceReports, correspondence, resumesCritiquing serviceArticles, shorts stories, reports, e-books, non-fiction essays/theses, whatever you've written. I read

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tutoring for studentsBeginnings - ideas & planning of writing assignments - requirements of assignment - research skills Middles - structure - critique of first draft [includes editing for punctuation, spelling & grammar] - pointers on where work can be improved - format & referencing Endings - final critique, making sure

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Local Knowledge: background and historical setting in novelsYou're writing a story set in your local city, but one hundred years in the past. How can you recreate the feel of the past in your words of the present? Local knowledge, that's how. And how do you get this sort of knowledge when your characters were walking around one hundred years ago and you're situated well and truly in the 21st

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The thing I dislike most about diaries, electronic, cyber or otherwise is the mental block that snaps up as soon as I'm faced with a blank page or square. What on earth to write about? It is possibly made worse by the knowledge that other people might actually read my words and so added pressure ensues. Please be patient as I muddle my way through blogger.com looking for ways to be both

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