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Book Week Scotland 2020

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…

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Enchanted Lands

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…

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

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…

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An Apology, of Sorts

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…

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Literature Ambassador: Writer Opps: Tom-Gallon Award

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…

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

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,…

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