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(2 votes)     Rate it!  |  Report it! Clamouring to become visible... http://www.paulanderson.org.uk/blog.htm Writing. Writing about writing. And podcasts. You lucky people... Category: Blog Directory » Arts Blogs » Literature » Creating Hits: 1 Date added: 2007-07-22 13:04:17 Alexa traffic rank: 11,956,433

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Fiction Friday - 29 August 2008 Dialogue bits
This Week's Theme: Step 1. Go to a busy locale â€" a cafe or coffee shop would be easiest. Sit down with a notebook, and make sure you look busy, so people don’t know you’re listening. Now write down random snips of their conversations. Don’t take whole lines or even sentences â€" just a... Read more...
Published a day ago

The year I went mad...
There is no doubt about it - this year I have gone mad. Starting off with getting a tattoo, I then decide to serialise a book over the course of a month at the same time as writing a new one. And now?Now I've just signed up to be the coldest I've ever been. To undergo the most arduous physical... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Questions of style
Over at Write Anything a new writing meme has been posted, and Janie has asked for readers to respond on their own blogs, and post a linke back on the site. The meme itself was started by Becca at Write on Wednesday.Do you write fiction or non-fiction? Or both?I write mainly fiction, although... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Making it up as you go along… From Write Anything - 30 March 08
This is adapted from an article that appeared on the Write Anything website on March 30, 2008. The original text can be found here.Making it up as you go along…In March, the UK’s Observer newspaper carried a story about author Ronny M Cole’s advice to parents that they should make up... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Why are you so meme to me?
Do you like what I did there with the whole pun thing? Did ya? Aah, no pleasing you people...Anyway, Steph over at Watch Your Steph has tagged me with a meme to reveal six unspectacular quirks about yourself. Hmmmm, toughie, I have no quirks. At least not unspectacular ones...But first, the... Read more...
Published 7 days ago

Fiction Friday - 22 August 2008 Steal something
This Week's Theme: Have your character steal something. Now have her rationalize it.Marx said it best. "All property is theft." Can't remember if that was Karl or Groucho, probably Groucho, but I can't remember the punchline. Anyway, all property is theft, of a sort. So anyone who owns... Read more...
Published a week ago

Thank you Captain Obvious!
Some day Captain Obvious is going to encounter Captain Fantastic...What is it about being a "Captain" in these insults? Captain Obvious is (obviously) more authoritatively obvious in his statements than, say, Private Obvious, or Sergeant Obvious (perhaps at that rank he is merely Sergeant... Read more...
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Adverse writing conditions From Write Anything - 23 March 08
This is adapted from an article that appeared on the Write Anything website on March 23, 2008. The original text can be found here. By coincidence, I was again away this weekend, without my laptop (although not without internet access, albeit limited). I did however take a pad and pen with me,... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Fiction Friday - 15 August 2008 Stolen conversations
This Week's Theme: Write about a stolen conversation.>INITIATE CONTACT...>UPLINK TO SATELLITE - WAITING...>CONNECTION ESTABLISHED>COMSAT12 UPLINK BEGIN 14:08:13>DATA DUMP START - 7% COMPLETE...>SCANNING DATA FOR KEY WORDS...>DATA DUMP 86% COMPLETE>...!! KEYWORD TRIGGER INITIATED !!!! DOWNLOADING... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Your opinions needed!
NaNoWriMo is fast approaching, and while I have a few ideas for this year, I am undecided what to do.So, I thought I would put it to the popular vote - what would you, the people who most often read what I write, like to see me write?The Long Watch Part 2 - the second of the three part story arc... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Hello Real Job, welcome to my writing… From Write Anything - 16 March 08
This is adapted from an article that appeared on the Write Anything website on March 16, 2008. The original text can be found here.Hello Real Job, welcome to my writing…In February and March, Janie provided invaluable advice on protecting your online reputation, and the fourth entry touched on... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Coming soon...
He is removed from his friends. He is weak. We shall strike now?No. We do not move against him. We crush his friends and become reborn. Only then can we live. Only then can we move against the Synkistus.He is one. We are many.They are distracted. If we move now they will be caught... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago