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Simon Says!: Britain's Got Talent
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 1 June 2015. This last week of television has been full of talented hopefuls doing their best to please four judges and millions of television viewers. Whenever I hear the thud of a rejection falling on the doormat (or pinging into my email inbox) I often imagine hearing four loud buzzers going off and four huge red crosses flashing above my head. 1 June 2015 at 22:54. Really its about hard work, isnt it? 2 June 2015 at 09:32. So this is...
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Simon Says!: Looking Back
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 15 June 2015. They say you should never go back, but last weekend I did just that. I’d been invited to run a couple of article-writing workshops as part of the Leominster Festival, which were being held in the very building where I used to work, before I became a freelance writer. In one of the workshops I looked at market analysis and one delegate picked up a copy of The Lady. How have you changed as a writer? 15 June 2015 at 16:23.
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Simon Says!: Second Fluke Originality
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 16 March 2015. Well, it seems that flukes can happen twice. What is a fluke? According to the OED it’s an unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck. Cracking it the first time was a fluke so cracking it a second time just proves flukes can happen twice. Or does it? I was chatting to a group of writers as a workshop recently, and one said that, “ You’ve obviously discovered the formula for this market. The story th...
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Simon Says!: Urgent Deadlines
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 27 July 2015. It all began with an email at 17:37 for a photo. “Hi Simon. Do you have any photos of the Stiperstones? All this happened less than a month ago, on 30th June, and I now suspect that I was helping Country Walking magazine out of such a tight hole, because last week the latest issue of the magazine fell onto my doormat, and when I turned to the back page there was my photo and my text that I’d supplied them with a littl...
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Simon Says!: Simply Does It
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 23 March 2015. So, were you able to catch a safe glimpse of the eclipse? It was time to make a pin-hole camera: cue white sheet of paper on a clipboard, a piece of card, and a drawing pin. As you can see from the photo, it worked really well! I also used the colander from the kitchen and got that to produce a multitude of eclipses! Sometimes, the old fashioned ways are the best ways of doing things. Likewise, although I like my laptop an...
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Inside the chicken coop: As one door closes another one opens ...
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Inside the chicken coop. Chat from the chicken house. Sunday, 12 January 2014. As one door closes another one opens . It's been quite a year inside and out of this chicken coop. I lost four of my hens this year and when my beautiful old Blodwyn passed away before Christmas I decided that I would start the new year with something different. The good news is that the new brood will be face book stars. I have just set up a new page called The Happy Hen. Hope to see you there if you wish to pay us a visit.
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Simon Says!: No ... But Yes
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 13 April 2015. I’ve just finished one of those jobs that started out as something completely different, and it highlights the importance of pitching. Bugger. But as I read the email he then went on to suggest tackling it in a completely different format … one I’d not seen in the publication before. Instead, he wanted a nine-photo illustrated piece, where each image was accompanied by a caption of no more than 30 words. Of course, a commi...
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Simon Says!: Hi Res, Hi Res, Hi Res!
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 25 May 2015. Hi Res, Hi Res, Hi Res! On 13th April I posted about the joys of pitching one idea, but being commissioned for something slightly different ( http:/ simonwhaleytutor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/no-but-yes.html. And several people have also commented that the way I’ve morphed from Terry Pratchett into Simon Whaley is quite an achievement too, particularly as it involves a pink wig.). It doesn’t matter whether you write artic...
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Simon Says!: WIDOMHs and Other Problems
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 8 June 2015. WIDOMHs and Other Problems. I’ve just finished judging the NAWG (National Association of Writers Groups) travel writing competition, and the entries have taken me right around the world. My initial sift enabled me to cull at least half of the entries. So why did those ones fail to win me over? 1 They were WIDOMHs. What’s a WIDOMH? What could you taste? What could you smell? How did you feel? 2 Not enough travel. The conc...
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Simon Says!: Google Alert!
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Writing advice for any writers who happen to be passing by! Monday, 20 July 2015. One of my students, Cedric, sent me an email about the benefits of Google Alerts, and he thought other readers of my blog may be interested in the service too. So, I use Google Alerts. I also use Google Alerts in a few ways:. 1) I post some of my articles onto my website, so I set up an alert for a key sentence or phrase from that article. This brings to my attention any unauthorised copying and pasting of my article in...
