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What makes a person a writer? What defines a writer? I guess it depends who you ask. The answer you might get from someone looking for pulp fiction for a dreary long haul flight is likely worlds apart from one a magazine editor might offer. Is it as simple as having a regular column the […]
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Life of a writer “Writing isn’t generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing something about which we feel passionately. Even at the worst of
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Quotes for writers on perseverance, inspiration and overcoming writer’s block So, here I am, mind utterly blank, staring forlornly at a completely blank sheet of paper or as is the case here, screen, and hoping some ethereal entity will sprinkle pixie dust in my hair and get me writing. And damn it all, I just
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Intro I’ll tell you how it is for me, then I’ll shut up and let far more prodigious, established writers say it more eloquently. My style, such as it is, is down to earth, as rambling as this is now. Yes, I know, I need to work on that, but it’s still my style, I
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Intro Depending on my mood and reason for reading, I can flick through an entire text book in seconds, speed reading to gauge its usefulness, or take a full day or two to read a fantasy novel, savouring every chapter. I can’t begin to guess the number of books I’ve read over my life, but
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Miscellaneous and addenda These are late additions to be sorted later and a selection of other quotes I liked but couldn’t quite fit into the categories of the five main pages. “The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old
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These are the words we found in the blocks, if you found any new, I’m impressed, do let us know. deer / dree / reed eras / rase / sera erne / neer /reen ores / rose / sore bird /drib aril / lira lame / male mase / mesa / same nose / ones
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Spoiler alert! These are the answers to the Nexus puzzles nxa001: They can all be preceded by SUN, or by MOON nxa002b: They are all anagrams of boys names: Sean, Karl, Stan and Eric nxa003: The can all have LIGHT as a suffix nxa004: The can all be preceded by SUN or end with LIGHT
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