Aug 27, 2009 4
A few months back I was doing a big shop in Tesco and stumbled across Writer’s Magazine. Now, I’ve never bought any writing/writers’ magazines before (I stole a couple once when I worked part-time in a petrol station, but that’s another story) so I thought I’d give it a go. The magazine contained quite a few interesting articles, but I found myself drawn to the competitions page.
Aug 26, 2009 1
Disclaimer: I don’t hate my job. I wanted to make that point clear in case anyone I work with read my last post, or indeed happens to read this one.
As I hit ‘publish’ after writing my last blog entry, I realised something. I had described myself, with somewhat reckless abandon, as a bitter 28 year-old trapped in a career I’m not entirely happy with.
Instantly my thoughts turned to the ideas I’d already had for my next blog, where, I’d decided, I would describe the idea for my novel and specifically the main character and narrator; 27 year-old singer-songwriter and former accountant Jack Smith, who within the first three thousand words meets a beautiful glamour model who changes his life.
Aug 19, 2009 3
Right, I think I’m starting to get into this blogging lark. Pretentious old self-important me. Just a quick one today.
Firstly, I think it’s fair to say that I was wrong in my first blog. Blogs aren’t pretentious, and neither are they just for self-important types with high opinions of themselves. There are lots and lots of very interesting, entertaining and helpful blogs out there, and I’d like to bring a couple to your attention:
Aug 16, 2009 0
As described previously, this is a piece of coursework I did for my English A-Level in 1998 aged 17 and a bit. I have copied it out exactly as it was, resisting the urge to edit out errors or just cut bits that now seemed either very un-funny and/or hideously dated. But anyway, here it is.
Aug 13, 2009 1
This, my second blog posting, is a slightly forced affair. Tonight I will travel to the south coast for a wedding, and won’t get chance to blog again for a few days. I’ll just write a bit now describing what I might blog about in the short-term, in no real order and for no real point.
