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My writing shed
Just after I moved into my house here in the south-west corner of the English Lake District I designed a shed to be built at the end of the garden. It was insulated and double glazed, and therefore useable year-round, not just a summer house. The first roof blew off...
Linking to Facebook
I thought I'd set up these posts to link automatically to FB, but I needed to do some more 'settings', so let's see if this works. All the blogs posted since last weekend are on ruthwords.wordpress.com, including all the fumbling first attempts at posting pictures etc...
How helpful is a detailed outline?
Late last September I arrived in Winnipeg to begin a month's work there. I had come direct from two weeks in the warmth and bright light of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Winnipeg was unusually - and disappointingly - wet. I lay in bed listening to CBC Radio 1 - the...
How much research is enough?
I've struggled with this question right from the start, although I think I'm closer now to finding the right balance between necessary authenticity and unnecessary tedium that slows down the action and gets in the readers' way. I'm trying in this trilogy - based where...
Rationing my time
I knew that dividing my time this week between writing and blogging would be an issue. On top of which I'm still unsure about getting into my blog, using a terribly complicated password that I'll never remember. Even now I can feel my adrenalin level higher than it...
The dilemma of slow broadband
I'm acutely aware of just how slow my broadband is here at home in West Cumbria. Everything I could in a twinkling in Salford is taking me so much longer here. I fear it may drive me nuts, or be manageable only when I'm visiting my 'other house' in Ulverston, which is...
Is my blog just like an expanded Tweet?
Of course I should have thought about this before, but I'm wondering whether this blog could be seen as just as an expanded Twitter stream. It displays the same way, and now that I've installed(?) a widget to add a link to the blog automatically on Twitter the two are...
To sell or not to sell
When I published my first non-fiction books about education, many years ago, we sold through old-fashioned mail order, and directly to clients when I was working with them. Then I started writing fiction, and set up a website where customers could buy my novels as...
Previous blog posts
What I'd like to do is add some old blog posts to my new site. In the meantime, if you want to see some of the posts from the past year or two, the only way I can manage so far is to link this to my other website, so I've done that.
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