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Recent Reads 28 Nov 2010

by admin on November 28, 2010

I don’t get time these days to do much reading, never mind reviews, but I thought I’d do a few reviews coming up to the holiday period. Watch out over the next few weeks and you might get a idea for a stocking filler!

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Easy Extra Money?

by admin on November 3, 2010

It’s a pretty dire economic climate out there at the moment and it looks like it’s not about to get better. Most of us are thinking of new ways to at least stand still if not to make some extra cash. Once again I suggest creative writing can possibly fill the gap. It is something [...]

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It’s All About Making A Start

by admin on October 30, 2010

What brought me to creative writing was the feeling of freedom, the feeling that I cold be anyone I wanted to be at any time in the past or the future or the ability to make up my own little world. A bit like a grown up child! One of the questions I’m often asked [...]

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And Who Said Poetry Doesn’t Pay?

by admin on October 29, 2010

Would it be unreasonable to say that estate agents have a reputation for the over use of meaningless jargon and cliches. Well one estate agent must have thought so for he sent his stall of on a poetry course persumable in a bid to wax lyrical about the value of property in today’s dull climate. [...]

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A FIFTY-CENT LESSON IN PERSISTENCE

by admin on October 21, 2010

Shortly after Mr. Darby received his degree from the “University of Hard Knocks,” and had decided to profit by his experience in the gold mining business, he had the good fortune to be present on an occasion that proved to him that “No” does not necessarily mean no. One afternoon he was helping his uncle [...]

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