The 12 days of BirdsOnTheBlog: …and the Birds writing brilliantly
And so it falls to me to complete twelfth post and celebrate that the Birds do, indeed, write brilliantly. But first, let’s recap: altogether now, one more time…. *cue music* One the first-to-twelfth day of Christmas my BlogBirds gave to me: 12 bloggers blogging 11 women working 10 business brainies 9 speakers sharing 8 coaches [...]
Telling tales – writing your way to better health
Many of us underestimate the negative affect stress and pressure of everyday life can put on our health. Sleepless nights, irritability, over eating and drinking too much. Yep, I have been there, done that, got the empty digestives packet and Jack Daniels bottle. I know from first hand experience, that how you handle stress will [...]
National Punctuation Day: celebrating the importance of proper punctuation
“Prose has its own musicality, and the more notation the better. I like dashes, double-dashes, comashes and double comashes just as much. The colon is an umlaut waiting to jump; the colon dash is teasingly precipitous.” Will Self Does other people’s incorrect use of the possessive apostrophe drive you nuts? Does your own abuse of [...]
REVIEW: The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Book by Dee Blick
Disclaimer: I was introduced to Dee on Twitter by @1230jackie. When I heard she was signing copies of her new book at Waterstones’ in Croydon, I went along to meet her in real life. It would have been churlish to leave without buying a copy (and I’m no churl!). So I did, at £15 (although [...]
Crass and Characterisation
As a writer, one of the things that defines what I laughably refer to as my ‘style’, is that I spend a lot of time on characterisation and dialogue. Many authors prefer to spend a lot of time in scene setting, background description – I tend to be terse, leaving the reader to make up [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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