This evening I have come to a decision that I'm going to take my book to the publishing stage with Kindle Direct Publishing without paying someone else to help me. I received quotes from £999 up, more typically £1500 plus I see I have been programmed by the thought that certain things are difficult and can only be done by experts and yet by using common sense and following instructions from...
Last weekend I travelled to a Bemer conference held at the Holiday Inn just outside Coventry. I decided to arrive a couple of days early, partly as a small break and partly to settle myself before the event. Coventry itself, like many large towns now, feels as though it is changing but not necessarily for the better, so I was glad to explore instead the quieter areas nearby. One worthwhile stop...
My most productive hours are after I wake up at 6:00 and when I have had my coffee. This is where ideas appear in front of my consciousness - new and fresh - and I also flick through my mobile phone to see what videos present themselves. As you probably know 'the system' learns your preferences and will produce videos that are most attractive for you. On this occasion I had a look at the dreaded...
I don’t have a great deal to write about in my diary at the moment, mainly because my creative energy is being siphoned off into another direction. Most of it is going into a series of essays about life in a corner of Somerset, not far from Wells. The aim is to capture a sense of the place — a snapshot of what people are doing and why they do it — before time changes it all beyond recognition....
Off to the dentist this morning to have a tooth removed and as I have been living on soup and paracetamol for the last four days it was a relief. Francoise came along for support. Our dentist in Bath, David, is very competent and really minimises pain even though the tooth had had to be cut in half before being removed. Due to the anaesthetic injection it was completely without pain so we went...
My time, energy and attention are now focused on the three villages I am working with, where I’m using my writing skills to record life through personal interviews. My hope is to create a picture for future generations of what village life was like in 2025. Tomorrow, for example, I’m meeting someone who happens to be a world expert on crayfish — not the sort of person you might expect to find in...
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