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How to work at home and get stuff done
Working from home sounds like the ultimate dream – no motorway car park to negotiate, no need to wear tight uncomfortable clothes – you can even work in your PJs if you want and you have 24 access to a fridge! However in order to stay focused and get your work done, you may have…
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How to write a guest blog post
I have had a guest blog post accepted at the Oxford English Dictionary website on the language in Jane Austen adaptions. I really enjoyed writing the blog post although it did require checking out some adaptions of some of Jane Austen’s books – a real hardship! It’s one of the first times that I’ve got…
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Freelance Writing – How to Write Great Product Descriptions for a Website
One of the many freelance copywriter jobs available is to write product descriptions for a website. This is a description for each product on an e-commerce site which describes the product, gives a potential customer information on the product, often including dimensions and colour choices as well as materials that it is manufactured from. There…
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Six Best Girl BFFs in Fiction
Sometimes it’s not just all about the romance in a novel. For me, there is nothing like a brilliantly defined girl friendship. Our friends can offer us a shoulder to cry on, good advice, sometimes bad advice, a cup of coffee and a much needed listening ear when we need it. Here are some of…
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Day 30 – 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Final Review
It’s here – my final blog post of my 30 day blogging challenge! It’s been quite a journey involving late nights, frantic Google searches and lots of cups of tea. Along the way, I’ve made some friends and my blog is definitely better for it. I began my challenge, hoping that I would be able…
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Day 29: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – 30 Ways to find Blog Post Ideas
When I began this challenge, my biggest excuse for not keeping up my blog was that I didn’t know what to write about. On beginning this 30 day blogging challenge, I wrote a quick list of ideas for blog posts so that I would have something to give me ideas when I needed something quickly.…
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Day 28: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Procrastination & the Writer
I would like to put my name forward for the title of ‘Writer Procrastinator Extraordinaire’ as I think that my talents for procrastination far exceed my talents for writing! Today I have had little bits of time here and there, but no, it’s at 9.47 pm that I decide to start writing my blog post…
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Day 27: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Five Retro Blog Posts to check out on this Blog
By the end of this blogging challenge, I will have written 30 blog posts in a little over a month. It ’s not been easy but it’s been worth it. For today’s blog post, I want to highlight some of the posts that have gone before. One thing I have noticed in checking over my…
I love short stories: each one has its own character.
Sarah Charmley.
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August blog – where have you been since January?
Good question! Life got a little busy in the middle of February and did not calm down again until June. That is one reason for my neglect of this blog. By the time the dust settled, we had a holiday and then just all the stuff that goes on after a holiday. Suddenly it’s August.…
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2024 wrap up and 2025 goals
I have begun this new year by documenting the writing goals I have achieved. Looking back and comparing where you are at the end of this year can help you work out what you want to achieve the following year. Last year, I aimed to rewrite and publish a novella that I had worked on…
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Where to find story ideas
Have you ever read a story and thought that it was amazing and that you could never do that? Generating story ideas acts a little like a muscle – the more you use it, the easier it gets. Actively looking for story ideas can help you to generate more. You want to begin writing stories…
