This morning I wandered through the winding alleyways of Dubai’s spice souk. It has been here for years, but now that the city has become a tourist magnet, some things have changed for the better, others [...]
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 expatriate stuffLois and Bill Breckon are running writing competition, called The Posara Prize and that has a whopping £1,000 prize! All you have to do is write a piece of fiction or non-fiction on the subject of a foreigner in Italy and you are in with a chance. I’m not actually sure of the deadline, but I do know that they want entries to be a maximum of 2,000 words. [...] inspirationMotivation. My students often ask me for advice on how to stay motivated. I tell them that even I have problems sometimes. Yes, despite 27 books, thousands of articles and goodness knows what else I have written and published. So, it was with that thought in mind, when I found myself staring at a blank screen [...] articlesMelinda Roos I love it when my students have something to teach me and yesterday was no exception. Melinda Roos was attending my Definite Articles workshop in the Hague, and was thrilled to announce that she had just had an article accepted by a website called Suite101. Well, I had never heard of it! But [...] expatriate stuffI am a big fan of writing competitions, particularly when the winners get published. Earlier this year I was a judge for the Netherlands Young Writer Competition and the winners had their entries published in a super book about friendship. A week or so ago I judged the finalists in the Life in a Flying House competition where winners earn $10,000 from the Expat Youth Scholarship and publication online. I urge you to look at the website and read last year’s entries while you are waiting for this year’s results (out 13 September). This week, I have two more competitions to tell you about – and this time they are for grown ups! Entering a competition has many six [...] bookshow a successful writer nurtures young writing talent by judging competitions and mentoring teenagers to build a [...] inspirationWe are going to move house. Next week! After six months of searching and negotiating, we are finally on the way. Our house is filled with cardboard boxes and our minds are filled with floorplans and lists. Yes, it’s a stressful time. My friend Chris just sent me the link below to an amusing song about [...] inspirationThere are many reasons for procrastination and putting off doing something we love to do – like writing. Bute they are all excuses and here I set about squashing them all – [...] bloggingBlogging is the best way to get an internet presence and grow your online tribe, and a must-have for writers and [...] inspirationA book can be written in many ways, honed for a different market each time. A story can be written with a variety of endings, or with the story seen through the eyes of first one character then [...] |
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