Archive For September, 2009
I enjoyed this blog post: Calling Bullshit on Social Media, by Scott Berkun. I enjoyed it, not because I agree with him on every point, but because Scott does a great job of removing some of the hot air from ’social media’.
It seems that in any business it’s easy to get wrapped up in your [...]
I thought I’d tell you a nice summery story today, seeing as we’re all desperately trying to avoid the inevitable onset of autumn. A couple of weeks ago I was on the beach with my partner – I know, actually sunbathing on the beach only a couple of week…
I thought I’d tell you a nice summery story today, seeing as we’re all desperately trying to avoid the inevitable onset of autumn. A couple of weeks ago I was on the beach with my partner – I know, actually sunbathing on the beach only a couple of week…
I don’t want to boast but I am abundant in my back garden. My tomatoes are heavy on the vine and my butternut squash is filling out nicely. However, all is not as it should be; at night I have a prowler – a squirrel who has been filling his flea-ridden body with MY tomatoes. [...]
Well, ok, it’s not an actual article (yet), but The Guardian Weekend Magazine did print my letter on Saturday 12th September. You can read the letter here.Yes I know it’s only 3 lines long, but they do edit them you know. The full letter (which was obv…
Well, ok, it’s not an actual article (yet), but The Guardian Weekend Magazine did print my letter on Saturday 12th September. You can read the letter here.Yes I know it’s only 3 lines long, but they do edit them you know. The full letter (which was obv…
There are a lot of blogs out there – too many to read. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by blogs, with an RSS reader riddled with unread posts, or hundreds of bookmarked sites that you’re never going to revisit.
The Other Problem with Blogs
If you read a handful of blogs about SEO, or copywriting, or fruit [...]
This week I have been trying to rid The Eagle’s Nest of a nasty little invasion of multicellular filaments of microscopic fungi. Or mould as it’s more commonly known. This hadn’t really been a problem until recently when an otherwise unnoticed little b…
There’s a Petshop Boys song called ‘Being boring’. And in August, Just Write member Charlie Davies thought this theme up for a writing exercise. But guess what – being boring is trickier than you think. The pieces people wrote raised … Continue reading →
Working in Brighton, I’ve always enjoyed the variety and number of networking events and casual meet-ups that are available. But wherever I go, I rarely meet other writers.
So, after chatting to Ellen about it, we decided to set something up.
Here’s the event description from Upcoming:
Do you write for a living? If you’re a professional writer, [...]
