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The 12 days of BirdsOnTheBlog: …and the Birds writing brilliantly

SuzanStMaur — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:30:58 +0000

Pin It 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 [...]

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Telling tales – writing your way to better health

Special Guest — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:00:12 +0000

Pin It 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 [...]

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National Punctuation Day: celebrating the importance of proper punctuation

Angela Boothroyd — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:00:09 +0000

Pin It “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 [...]

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REVIEW: The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Book by Dee Blick

JackieBarrie — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:00:13 +0000

Pin It 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 [...]

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Crass and Characterisation

Drew — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:00:20 +0000

Pin It 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 [...]

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How to take Text Editing to the next level in your small business

Sally Church — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Pin It Have any of you ever written content for a website or blog and found that the output or RSS feed was corrupted by rogue HTML or even worse, junk from a copy/paste via Word? And then spent hours trying to fix it? Me too. Sadly, judging by the comments in the last post [...]

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How to write a shopping list (and yes, it DOES matter…)

SuzanStMaur — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Pin It Writing a shopping list can do one of two things: get you efficiently around the supermarket, or waste expensive minutes – even hours –of your time. And if you’re running your own business as well as your family life, minutes can be precious – never mind hours. So why is writing shopping list [...]

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Inheritance is a lot more than just money or ‘stuff’

Angela Boothroyd — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Pin It On the 23rd January, ten weeks away from his 100th birthday, my grandfather died peacefully. Much of life during the past ten months has revolved around his ill health and his care, and during this time I spent many hours sitting talking with him about his memories of his life. My grandfather’s stories [...]

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5 Blog posts that I wish I had written

Sarah Arrow — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:26:05 +0000

Nah, not copied outright or blog puked (should I say regurgitated instead)? Sarah Arrow shares the posts she wishes she was clever enough to write.

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Twitter for the small niche business: does it pay to get personal?

SuzanStMaur — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:00:42 +0000

For some time I have known that a personal approach on Twitter to people who are potential purchasers of my work is far, far better than tweeting a bland, boring advert to them. But that has never been proven so effectively as it was today.

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