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Month: April 2013

Z is for Zero – the word count no one wants to see!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Wayne

When writing, keeping a tally of your daily word count can be a great tool to keep up the momentum. My first experience of this was last November, during NaNoWriMo where the aim is to write 50,000 words in a month. To achieve this you need to write, on average, 1667 words EVERY SINGLE DAY….

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Y is for YOU, dear reader!

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Wayne

Yes, this penultimate A-Z post is dedicated to YOU, the people that actually make the effort to read and comment and share all of this content that I have been producing. One of the main reasons I wanted to undertake the A-Z challenge was to breathe some life back in to my often neglected old…

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Don Of The Dead Series Episode 2 – Romance is Dead

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Wayne

Don of The Dead – Series Overview Don is recently deceased but didn’t quite make it to the other side, so seems doomed to join the rotting ranks of the undead rubbing shoulders with the living who have now begrudgingly accepted that some people just refuse to die. Each short episode finds Don dealing with…

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Poem – Punctuation Panda

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Wayne

For this week’s writing challenge we had to write a poem, any theme, 150 words or less. Poetry isn’t really my strong suit and I was scratching around for ideas until I got a flash of inspiration on a run in to work . . .I began to think about punctuation. Here’s what I came…

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X is for X-Ray Music (song with lyrics)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Wayne

This song was inspired by a BBC documentary I watched a few years ago called ‘How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin‘. It told the story of how, despite being banned from the former Soviet Union, the Fab Four’s music still managed to find it’s way on to the turntables of the oppressed masses – causing…

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W is for WIP – Work In Progress

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Wayne

Yes, today’s short post seemed the perfect opportunity to tell you all about my work in progress. In reality, of course, I’m actually working on several things at once – regular writing challenges from my weekly Writer’s group, a few short stories, songs when I get the urge and blogging just to fill out the…

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V is for Vinyl. Why I love to put ‘The Needle on The Black’ (song)

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Wayne

This song was written as a love letter to vinyl – you know, good old fashioned records that you have to play on a turntable? I love them for many reasons, like the fact they don’t really lend themselves to skipping from track to track, which means you are more inclined to listen to the…

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U is for Uncommon Courtesy

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Wayne

Common courtesy. What is it? Well, for one thing, it certainly isn’t as common as it used to be (I now realise that statement makes me sound about a hundred years old, and you may now be picturing me smoking a pipe, squinting into the middle distance and chuntering about ‘the good old days’). In…

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T is for Thief. There’s no such thing as an original idea.

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Wayne

“It’s not where you take things from . . . it’s where you take them to.” The above is a quote from ground-breaking French  film maker, Jean-Luc Godard. Godard wasn’t afraid to take influences from his favourite works – be that in film, literature or music – and put them in to his own work….

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S is for Satisfied and why you shouldn’t be.

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Wayne

In a recent interview with the BBC, eccentric and brilliant actress, Miriam Morgolyes was asked a very simple question: “Are you satisfied?” Miriam has had a very successful career, gaining critical and public acclaim, including winning several prestigious awards. She has a wealth of experience in radio, TV, stage and film as well as completing…

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