Archive for December, 2013

Retreating into shell until a New Year dawns



Well, during the past 3-4 weeks I’ve edited Phibby’s wonderful new collection of poems (280 pp), completed language editing on nineteen clinical anatomy manuscripts (about 33 hours of working time), presented my work at the creative writing group’s Christmas performance,…

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Better to blog late than not to blog at all



I waited until today (Sunday) to write this week’s blog so I could report on our Buxton Storytelling Group session, which happened this afternoon. It was the usual relaxed gathering in Scrivener’s Bookshop, a delicious three-storey building full of winding…

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Good reading!



No, this isn’t a self-promotion blog. It’s about things I’ve read recently that I’d like to have written, and might have written if I’d been good enough.   My old friend Peter Gilmour, who lives in a delightful 19th century…

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Catching up



We had a meeting about the “Fright Night” plans on Wednesday November 27th. The outline ideas I’d suggested met with approval, which landed me with the job of writing a draft script… without actually taking over what should be a…

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