Monthly Archives: September 2015

Why?

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Bringing it home

This is my granddaughter on Wednesday, face down on the floor, sleeping peacefully… safe, loved, exhausted by giggling. Another photograph of a small child, face down on the floor, made the news on Wednesday. Face down in the sand, washed … Continue reading

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Names Matter III…

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Pastels

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Keep on Writing by @JoRobinson176

Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
It’s easy to get daunted by the vast quantities of books published on Amazon every day, and also by some successful author’s suggestions that you shouldn’t be trying to charge for your books if…

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Is blogging worth it? 10 reasons why…

‘Build an author platform’, we are told. As an author platform, is a blog economically viable? If everyone put a penny in a virtual pot, one for each article they had read in August on Daily Echo, and if I … Continue reading

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Busy

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Indulgence

It was the ‘we’ in ‘when we have breakfast’ that caught my attention. My son does not usually take it for granted that I will share that meal… and to be fair, given the vile seaweed sludge he calls a … Continue reading

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Vision

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How to make a living as a poet.

Originally posted on Tallis Steelyard:
It is perhaps something all poets yearn for. Not merely fame, the adulation of the masses or the soft tears of the ladies when you have to move on to another city. It is not…

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