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  1. A Scottish ferry ride

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I occasionally make reference to the weather in Scotland, where the Tammy stories are set, but regardless of how well weather can be described in writing, nothing beats a ...

    - 2015/01/17 - 1:13pm - 8 comments

  2. Real locations in TG fiction

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I just came across a Burns Night greeting from the senior police officer on the Isles of Scilly, as featured in Unaccounted Gains. Attached to that greeting was this photo ...

    - 2015/01/26 - 9:58pm - 5 comments

  3. Timeline problem

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I have over 3000 words of Chapter 16 of Tamara's Trials ready to roll, It's been edited, re-edited and re-re-re-edited but I can't use it, yet! The Tammy st ...

    - 2015/01/29 - 1:00pm

  4. Broadband issues

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I'm having broadband problems again as my fibre went down sometime last night pb (post Bike). I've spent time today, after teaching my over 50s IT class, trying ...

    - 2015/02/15 - 6:42pm

  5. Delays to Tammy's Trials

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing An apology to those waiting for Tammy's adventures (and there are plenty of them to come) but I'm engaged in a complete rewrite of Chapter 31 and now see that I& ...

    - 2015/02/22 - 4:44pm - 4 comments

  6. Unforced errors

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I suppose it's inevitable that eventually I would make a boo boo that required an already-published chapter to be edited in such a way as the story changes, or at lea ...

    - 2015/03/02 - 12:29am - 4 comments

  7. Tammy's tales from here

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Tamara's Trials is heading towards conclusion and the writing emphasis will switch to Book 3 of Unaccounted Gains. I'm afraid that one or two loose threads will ...

    - 2015/04/03 - 10:42pm - 7 comments

  8. I had an idea

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I had an idea earlier today. One of the problems with the way that I'm writing at the moment is that it's one story from two viewpoints in two series!! So, to ke ...

    - 2015/04/19 - 6:51am - 4 comments

  9. Number of readers

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I noticed a strange behaviour yesterday, the number of 'reads' for one of my stories differed from the total hit for the same story on the 'my stories' ...

    - 2015/05/06 - 8:57pm - 13 comments

  10. New Tammy series

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It doesn't seem like more than a few weeks since Tamara's Trials finished, and there's even been a couple of diaries to fill the gap, but work has now comme ...

    - 2015/05/06 - 11:41pm - 4 comments

  11. Six years!

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing According to my BCTS account I have been a member here for five years and twelve months, so that must mean six years. Just sayin' Shiraz ...

    - 2015/05/17 - 11:53am - 4 comments

  12. Story update & bio

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical It;s been a few days since I posted a new chapter for either of my ladies. I'm afraid I've hit a block with Gains that needs a rethink but I had ...

    - 2015/05/20 - 10:56pm - 3 comments

  13. Unaccounted Gains

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I'm afraid that the next chapter of Gains is taking much longer to finish than I would like. Work on Testing Times continues whilst the grey cells consider reworking ...

    - 2015/06/22 - 9:54pm - 3 comments

  14. favourite author

    Author:  Shiraz heidi's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Has anyone heard from the wonderful Shiraz, I understand that she had RL issues to deal with but do hope that she will return soon. I dont have facebook, has anyone any inf ...

    - 2015/09/10 - 6:09pm - 1 comment