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How does your garden bloom?

Posted in General with tags bloom, cold light of day, dead of night, garden, ideas, images on May 11, 2013 by Kate Jack

The garden of your mind that is. Is it like mine, speeding along at what sometimes feels like a million miles an hour? Images, ideas and inspiration sleet in and out of my brain and whilst as a writer I appreciate having a vivid imagination, it can occasionally feel like I’m going mad.

Why? Because the abundance of ideas I get arrive at the most awkward of times. It always seems to be the dead of night and unless I clamber out of bed and write them down, by the time morning arrives they’ve vanished into the ether.

Of course they’re a lot of weeds in amongst the flowers. What seemed to make sense , in my half awake state, turn out to be utterly ridiculous come the cold light of day.

I consult my notes and that’s when the pruning begins: cutting back on the dead wood, trimming the over effusive and hopefully arriving at ideas that provide a smooth, manicured outline for my next manuscript.

I don’t always tend my garden as much as I should, but when I do and manage to create a work that reaches out and spreads its seeds far and wide, it’s a wonderful feeling.

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Tragic Romance & Faerie tales.

Posted in Short stories, Uncategorized with tags faerie tales, lost love, romantic tragedy, short stories on May 10, 2013 by Kate Jack

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Be careful what you wish for.

Posted in General with tags abscess, big mouth, dentures, teeth, toothache on May 8, 2013 by Kate Jack

Some of you may remember my recent post, Bloody teeth! Where I ranted on about one of my teeth hurting and extolling the benefits of wearing dentures. Well, I went to the dentist, moaning, groaning and clutching my face, and guess what? The tooth is infected, just one smidgeon away from an abscess.

So now I’m on a course of anti-biotics to try and clear it up. That said, my dentist is not optimistic about me keeping it and since it’s right in the front, it’ll mean a denture.

Me and my big mouth!

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Bloody teeth!

Posted in General with tags bank holiday, dentures, national debt, teeth, toothache on May 6, 2013 by Kate Jack

I’d sooner wear dentures any day, at least they don’t ache.

As some of you may know, I paid a visit to the dentist a few weeks ago for some much needed fillings, which took two days to complete. Afterwards, when the novacane wore off, I felt like I’d been in a boxing match and lost.

Since then all’s been fine, until Saturday night when one of my other damn teeth started to throb. The right side of my face, from the corner of my mouth, up to my ear, is in agony. And of course it’s a bank holiday, so the dentist is shut. I could try for an emergency appointment, but unfortunately I don’t have the equivalent of the national debt to pay for it. So it’s Ibuprofen and Co-codemol for me, until tomorrow. (Groan).

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Authors – get your name out there.

Posted in General with tags authorsdb, browse, competition, database, free, marketing, readers on May 5, 2013 by Kate Jack

Marketing a book is one of the hardest things to do, especially if you have zero budget to spend on advertising. There are, of course, the usual media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, etc and yes, they’re great, but of course any posts you make may become lost amongst the many other similar “adverts” on there.

However, there is a solution. Authorsdb have a database where a writer’s work can be registered for free. This allows the reader to browse and locate all kinds of books for their reading pleasure. The website itself is sleek and professional and easy to navigate and best of all, it’s free. There are competitions, with the opportunity to win free advertising and much, much more.

So why not check it out. It only takes a few minutes. After all, nothing ventured, nothing gained.