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Is ‘Being a Writer’ Genetic?
This is just a personal musing. I’ve spent the morning – a very hot sweltering morning – avoiding the sun, and instead, trolling through the U.K. adoption forums. Over the coming U.K. summer holidays, my family is scheduled to adopt a new child. Touch wood, because these things have a tendency to fall through for numerous reasons. But adoption brings up a story in my own mind, a story which reminds me of the great debate towards nature and nurture. Being an adopted child myself, I have to say – I’ve never had anyone I’ve “looked like” or been compared to. My looks, and in many cases, hobbies and talents, come completely from within myself. I’

9 Free HowTo Writing Ebooks To Read Online
U.K. publishing company How To has released it’s package of writing books free to read online. I have personally noticed several of these books available through retailers such as Amazon.com and been interested at this point, so to now find that information available free to read online is wonderful. Of course – you can still order the physical books as a matter of convenience also. Howto.co.uk/writing lists nine writing books online for you to read

Free E-Books for Writers to be Updated
One of the most popular themes on Juiced on Writing is that of free e-books for writers. Like many writers, I am a collector of good quality information and references. I have a large library of paperbacks and hardbacks on writing, but also an even larger digital library of how-to write books. As I write digitally – on a laptop, it is convenient to have some references available to me, digitally – and available even if I’m away from the house. Can you tell I love e-books, then? Now, it is a difficult time for writing lately, here in the UK, especially as a parent who’s school keeps doing events filling up the days before school breaks for su

Story of My Life.com
As a scrapbooker hobbyist, there were two beliefs I held strongly and which remain with me to this day - Preserve our memories for future generations Tell our story – with scrapbooking it was via photographs and decorations, but there was a major element of writing. I can not impound it enough, as I know of so many families who simply don’t think about this, then have a family death, and suddenly they inherit a box full of old photograph albums or unfiled snapshots, and that family member’s real memories (and their children’s for that matter) have been lost with the death. Rather than leave it to some historian, or your great grandchild

Houses of Writing
I’ve dreamt of houses since a little child. New houses, old houses I used to live in, insides – sometimes, outsides – sometimes. In my dreams, I’ve set scenes in houses of memory, or created entirely new houses for my dream-character to explore. Dream Dictionaries would suggest that dreaming of houses signifies times of change in our lives. And although I can certainly identify with that, I also dream of houses during times of some stability in my own life. I figure I should have been an interior designer or perhaps an architect, but never got around to it. Houses, for me, are a peaceful and invigorating dream, and many of those houses I dream of stay with me many years af