Category Archives: Work

British? Moi?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

This is a tough one. I have been nominated by the lovely writer Vivienne Tuffnell over at zen and the art of tightropewalking (whose novel Away With the Fairies I am currently reading and enjoying very much) for A Very British Blog … Continue reading →

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What stops you writing? A tale of two weeks….

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Fourteen days ago I was packing up my laptop, articles and library books ready to make the journey home after five days of writing. Well, I had lunch with a mate and went to the cinema to see Life of Pi with … Continue reading →

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Living the dream: on creativity, coffee and purple carrots….

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

How many of us have wanted to leave the ‘rat race’ (who does ‘race’ rats?) and open a cafe or tea shop? Especially one set in a village close to wonderful rolling countryside and just a few miles from the … Continue reading →

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Lets focus on the day job….On life coaching, creativity & the local economy

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

There are very few writers, even those with published work on the shelf, who can say that they earn a living wage solely from that writing. A few articles, the novel-in-progress or in my case the fund-raising anthology don’t pay the mortgage. … Continue reading →

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