tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48445449983696787412024-11-01T07:56:35.081+00:00This Blog is completely nonsensical. Imagine, if you will, the life of an aspiring writer. The hardship he feels, the pain he embraces, the deep need to write - and the gnawing fear of failure and rejection. This is the day-to-day Big Blogger diary of one such person. EnjoyAcerJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16980316555055595962noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844544998369678741.post-19067714389935059902009-08-10T10:51:00.002+01:002009-08-10T11:05:25.436+01:00

It's been a while since I updated you on the happenings around me. So I figured I'd get back into the swing of things.I had a pretty good weekend. Saturday saw me off to a workshop on "Starting your Own Business". Someone advised me to go there and check it out because as a freelance writer I am basically self-employed and should have the data they were offering. So I boarded the train and set

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Here is one of my latest stories. I wrote this recently for a specific magazine. I submitted it yesterday. I hope they accept and publish it. If so it will be my first officially published piece.Let me know what you think of it. MOVING ONShe adjusted her mascara, thickening the edges of her lashes, adding just a bit more body to them.Putting down the brush, she stared at herself in the dressing

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I've wanted to be a writer since e'er I remember. It's been a dream of mine which I've longed to turn into a reality. It has always sounded to me like fascinating work, living off my creative juices and filling the world with my ideas and inspiration.But whenever I told someone about what I wanted to do I always seemed to get the same reaction - a dubious look on the listener's face and a wash

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I love going to the beach, don't you? I thought I'd make a few comparisons between beaches in the UK and in the US.Coming from a land-locked country I had only ever seen beaches on TV. And the ones they generally show are the fantastic white sand beaches of the tropics. Can you imagine my disappointment when I arrived at Brighton Beach?Have a look at this picture. Here we have the world-famous

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So, we're humbly abashed for not having updated the blog yesterday. Sincere apologies all around.Yesterday was a bit dull. I made a few job applications on the web and followed up on some leads. Nothing solid coming out of this yet. We live in hope, don't we?As regards the book, I have to design a map of the realm that the characters can explore. It's harder to do that I first imagined. It's one

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Okay. Now to get down to updating the Big Blogger diary.Today's been kinda interesting. As you can see I've made a few modifications to this blog-page. I added the menu on the right so that you can easily access the articles you are looking for. I'll have to add another button for photos as I've now empowered myself by learning how to upload photos. Yay! So I'll soon be adding a section for "

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I thought I would start off the day today by adding a few spice-ups to this blog. That shouldn't really be too difficult. Following that I was to do a bit of research and then get down to the business of writing Chapter 3 of my book.So, I logged on and got to work. And in the end what really got done today?To be honest, not that much.Did I do a lot of creation on my writing? No.Did I get a lot

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Ok, this is not really an update but rather just a bit of stuff I thought you might find interesting. Check out this bit of poetry that I composed.I was learning Portuguese a number of years ago and decided to see if I knew it well enough to write some poetry in it. I think it turned out quite well.The English translation doesn't really do the piece justice, but you can get the idea from it.Let

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This is a brief description of my experiences with internet research. Click on the title below to see the article:Rebuilding a Lost World

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The start, the beginning, from whence it all came....Well, let me fill you in a bit. I'm a guy approaching his mid-30s. I live in a quiet and semi-remote town (although its inhabitants would beg to differ) in England.A couple of months ago I decided that I needed a change in my life. Things had been going pretty well. I was married, had a job I was very good at, had a lot of friends and

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