Tag: Editing
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Mission Creep
If I only learn one thing this year, it will be this: in the mind of its author, a book is never perfect. When I decided to serialize ‘Hallbury Summer’ in this blog through the Summer and Autumn, my plan was to break up the chapters of a book I had already written and published…
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A Writing Challenge: the thinking behind ‘A Place That Was Ours’.
In the Wear Valley of County Durham, there is a town called Bishop Auckland, and Bishop Auckland has a bridge. A one-time viaduct, it bore the weight of rail traffic emanating from the coal and ore producing mines of the upper valley. Now it is a road bridge. The mines are gone, but the isolated…
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Getting Religion?
Those who know sweet, opinionated, boiled carrot old me have been treated (frequently) to a discourse concerning my religious beliefs, which are, in a word, nonexistent. Or were. In the last few days I have experienced visitations. Only minor ones; not ethereal visions of unparalleled beauty, or thunderous voices: no, just vague grumblings from aloft. …
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