Freedom From The Mundane

Image: noellium

Pretty tired this morning. Not from being up extraordinarily late last night but from a very early start this morning. There’s a lot happening today ranging from training courses to writing and a fair bit of website work, so I wanted to get a head start on everything.
I’ve just wolfed down a roll with [...]

September 25th, 2009 | Tags: Assistant Editor, Coffee, Day Job, e-zine, Editing, egg & black pudding roll, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, frreelance writing, gig listings, Hairspray, Leith, live music, London, macaroni, musical, online magazine, plotting, Publishing and Marketing, Punk, Ranfurly Review, Scottish Parliament, Scruffy Dog Review, short story, Submissions, The Leither, The Vibrators, Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, webmaster, websites, work, Writing | Category: Day Job, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, Internet, Publishing and Marketing, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

Image: Umberto Salvagnin

One of my things I decided to pay more attention to this year was keeping up the level of submissions I have out and ensuring they get turned around after a rejection as quickly as possible. It doesn’t always happen, but generally speaking I’ve kept to the discipline, also managing to include more [...]

September 24th, 2009 | Tags: Acceptance, advert, Coffee, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, GDR's, Hairspray, London, lunch, marketing, musical, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rejection, roast chicken, Sheffield, Submissions, Theatre, train, Video, Waverly Station, Writing, YouTube | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Internet, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre, Travel, Writing, Writing Process | Leave a comment

Image: Jeff Edoe

Set in London and Brighton at the height of the Mod era, Quadrophenia is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a hedonistic style-conscious teenager searching for a place to belong and a girl to love. Misunderstood by his parents and stuck in a dead end job, he sets off on a trip to [...]

May 27th, 2009 | Tags: 1960s, Ben Sherman, Blonde Restaurant, Brighton, Britain, dining, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Festival Theater, London, meal, Mods, musical show, punks, Quadrophenia, Rebus, rockers, scooters, St Leonards, The Who, Union Jack | Category: Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Music, Theatre, UK | Comments (1)

Image: Martin Kingsley

I hope you all liked the interview with poet Sage Cohen in yesterday’s post. Hopefully it made a nice change from the norm, and I think you’ll agree it made for great reading. I’d like to thank Sage for the opportunity to be involved with her new book and for coming to Freedom [...]

April 8th, 2009 | Tags: 30, anniversary, Blogging, Camden Crawl, Camden Town, clouds, Day Job, e-books, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Eternal Press, Fiction, London, Madness, moon, novella, poems, poet, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Sage Cohen, sky, Writing | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, UK, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)