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It’s almost 12 months since I first intentionally but nervously, put a few words down in a word processor; spell checked it and loaded it into a freebie, internet blog. I had no idea what I was doing, or what lay in store. The thought of other people reading my stuff, both excited and terrified me in equal measure.

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We all know that a blog is an online diary or journal, but what is a blog not? A blog is not a website. Blogs can be updated quickly and easily, and as in a conventional diary or log, entries are posted in chronological order, but they are read in reverse chronological order. This means that although a blog can accommodate your novel, it’s not an easy prospect because it is not what the blog was designed to do.

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Not long ago, I found an alternative way to get paid for writing, without having to go through the lengthy, and often painful; process of sending out, and following up, queries and submissions. I discovered content sites.

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‘We are NOT going back for your mobile,’ my husband says. It’s mid-morning, and we’re fifty miles north of Montevideo on the Ruta 5, half way to Durazno.

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In much the same way as a dog is not just for Christmas, resolutions are not just for New Year.

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They used to send children up chimneys and down coal mines. Best place for them, some might say. Sadly, our nanny state has outlawed these time-honored methods of gaining an income. But nowadays you can set your kids to work in a painless way – so painless in fact that they won’t even know they’re working.

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Photography means ‘drawing with light’, and light is a critical element that separates a so-so photograph from a great one: how much, and where from.

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I was e-mailed about a poet who was looking for support poets to do slots of around five minutes each, before he took to the stage to perform his own work at his book launch. It having been a while since I had performed, or indeed left the house, I decided to go for it. I still had a box full of books under the bed, and they were only gathering dust there, so I checked I could take some along to try and piggy back some sales off the other author’s launch.

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