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The Blog Up North · 1M ago

Hello, I must be going…

This is my first blog post following my two weeks of self-imposed exile from blogging and other social media. I promised I would report back on a life more ordinary. So, what have I discovered? I’ve discovered I am a compulsive sharer. The lure of social media in the last 14 days has been strongest
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

I’m gonna get myself disconnected…

So here’s the deal. I’m giving up social media for two weeks. For me that means 14 days without Twitter, Facebook or blog activity. Why? Because. Oh please elaborate… I hear you cry. It started when I read about the Mashable Social Media Disconnect Challenge in which five guinea pigs will be taking
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

The Nowness of Everything

On March 15th 1994, 18 years ago today, playwright Dennis Potter gave what he predicted (and what turned out to be) his last ever television interview to Melvyn Bragg. One month before, Potter had learned he had terminal cancer of the pancreas and liver. He was in great pain and sipped morphine from
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

To sin by silence…

We pray that we will be spared. Today it was Karm el-Zeytoun. Tomorrow it could be our families with their throats cut. I read a headline about Syria, but I turned the page. Why were our children butchered by one American soldier? We did not deserve this. There is no Taliban here. No enemies of [...
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

The perils of self-promotion – Amanda Egan

A week ago I featured an interview with author Gary Murning on the subject of self-publishing and it’s impact on the literature landscape. This week, we take the subject a bit further. Amanda Egan took the self-publishing step last year with her debut novel, Diary of a Mummy Misfit, and the follow u
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

Crowdsourced Sundays 5: CDs

Greetings, Pop Pickers! Welcome to week 5 of Crowdsourced Sundays. This week I asked you to spin me round like a record, baby. Or something. And did you stand and deliver? You better, you bet! Okay, enough with the song titles. This week’s subject was A RANDOM CD COVER. Music taste is a personal and
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

Crowdsourced Sundays: Week 5

What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? No, it’s WEEK 5 of Crowdsourced Sundays. Want to know more? Read this bit here. Last week was a tour de force on your part. Such a wonderful collection of school pics; individually great but really brought to life in the collage  – which is what [..
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

Small Chairs

Two hours earlier comes a nonchalant confession which dials up the apprehension a couple of notches. You have to understand, getting the true story from this boy is like reading a detective novel whose pages have been scattered around town. You think you have all the clues, then discover an importan
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

Driftwood

DRIFTWOOD What good is driftwood? I’d tell you if I could. Remains which are dead, From a sea or river bed.   You’ll choke on the smoke, You wood-burning folk. For it is noxious when burned, So I have learned.   Should you find driftwood, After a high tide or a flood, Don’t be swayed [...]
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The Blog Up North · 2M ago

Self Publishing: An author’s view

Do you have a book inside you? I don’t mean as a result of some freak surgical accident, or because of an argument in WHSmith, but a story, a plot, an outline, buried in your head awaiting the light of day. Thousands of novels are published every year, and a larger and larger proportion of [...]
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