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Cook Your Own Stories

Post author:Eryl
Post published:31/01/2021
Post category:How Fiction Works Literature Ambassador Writer Opps Writing
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Literary Diet, the final dayTomorrow it won't be January any more, which feels rather abrupt. But there are still a few hours left of the month in which The Guardian…

Book Week Scotland 2020

Post author:Eryl
Post published:16/11/2020
Post category:Book Event Literature Ambassador
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Book Week Scotland 2020 is upon us like the softest of eiderdowns, fashioned from a patchwork of fabric cut from the frocks in a dress-up chest. This year's theme is…

Enchanted Lands

Post author:Eryl
Post published:08/03/2020
Post category:Literature Ambassador Writer's Life Writing
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What is an enchanted land? Does it have to be outside, like a forest or a wild-flower meadow, or can it be inside, like a kitchen in which a pie…

The Short Story: Opening Lines: A Perfect Day for Bananafish

Post author:Eryl
Post published:27/01/2020
Post category:How Fiction Works Writing
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‘There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost…

An Apology, of Sorts

Post author:Eryl
Post published:18/11/2019
Post category:Writer's Life Writing
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I've put the following message on my Home page, but thought it worth putting in a blog post too, mostly because I don't suppose many people look at my Home…

Literature Ambassador: Writer Opps: Tom-Gallon Award

Post author:Eryl
Post published:21/10/2019
Post category:Literature Ambassador Writer Opps
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If you've been writing short-stories for long enough to have at least one published, you'll have discovered there's very little money for those of us who favour the genre. So…

Valtos Rocks

Research & Motivation (or is it the other way round?)

Post author:Eryl
Post published:27/05/2019
Post category:Literature Ambassador Weekend Post Wigtown Writer's Life
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I'm currently writing a novel about a shit-storm that ensues when a small Scottish community decides to buy the island it inhabits from the wealthy, always absent and appallingly neglectful,…