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Catching up
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I discovered that the last edition of Bike I'd read was just past 2000. Trying to catch up the 300 in the meantime and it's hard work. Loving it again, despite ( ...
shiraz - 2014/07/16 - 12:26am - 3 comments
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First story re-posted
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've just published "Human Resources" which first appeared on BCTS in 2011 as "Martha". There's been a major edit/revision of the original te ...
shiraz - 2014/07/17 - 7:57am
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Stories update
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Eve is being extensively revised and my re-editing is running a few chapters ahead of publishing at the moment. The chapter numbers will no longer tally with the previous ...
shiraz - 2014/07/30 - 6:31pm - 5 comments
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More on stories
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It's been a little strange going back over stories I wrote 5 years ago and hadn't looked at for 2 years. Whilst I can remember the Eve plot, some of the chapters ...
shiraz - 2014/08/07 - 8:57pm - 3 comments
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Unaccounted Gains etc
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing The next chapter of Unaccounted Gains, number 30, may take a day or two as I've deleted a 1000 words from the draft chapter and commencing a rewrite. Unfortunately I ...
shiraz - 2014/09/11 - 11:35am - 2 comments
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Housekeeping
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing The sharp-eyed amongst you may already have noticed some logo changes for the Eve & Unaccounted Gains series as each is now displaying Book 1. The Series page has been ...
shiraz - 2014/10/04 - 9:38am
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New or revised?
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Here's an update on my stories: Unaccounted Gains Book 2 is continuing with a posting schedule of every 2 days (ish). It is brand new, never published elsewhere. Tama ...
shiraz - 2014/10/10 - 12:24am
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Tommy & Tamara series continuation
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've just posted chapter 17 of Tamara's Debut, due to editing that series will end on Chapter 24. Most of what was Chapter 25 now forms the intro into Chapter 1 ...
shiraz - 2014/11/09 - 8:24am - 1 comment
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Tammy's continuing story
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing As I said a week and a half ago, Tamara's Debut ends with the next posting. Writing for the next installment (Tamara's First Christmas) has now reached 40,000 wo ...
shiraz - 2014/11/20 - 1:25pm - 4 comments
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Stories collide
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Tomorrow, assuming that I don't have to re-edit everything again, I'll be trying something that maybe hasn't been tried before on this site. Let's just ...
shiraz - 2014/12/18 - 12:56am - 9 comments
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Xmas
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It's that time of year when stories take a backseat to real life. That means there may be sporadic story delivery for a week or so. Abnormal service will be restored ...
shiraz - 2014/12/25 - 5:22pm - 4 comments
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Scribbles
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Unaccounted Gains book 2 has now concluded slightly sooner than originally intended but concluded nonetheless after 32 chapters, making the story so far 72 chapters long, ...
shiraz - 2014/12/30 - 8:55pm - 2 comments
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Happy New Year
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical Happy New year to everyone, whichever time zone you find yourself in. I rejoined BCTS during 2014 having been absent for a while. I have thoroughly enjoye ...
shiraz - 2015/01/02 - 9:33am - 2 comments
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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 ...
shiraz - 2015/01/17 - 1:13pm - 8 comments
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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 ...
shiraz - 2015/01/26 - 9:58pm - 5 comments
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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 ...
shiraz - 2015/01/29 - 1:00pm
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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 ...
shiraz - 2015/02/15 - 6:42pm
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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& ...
shiraz - 2015/02/22 - 4:44pm - 4 comments
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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 ...
shiraz - 2015/03/02 - 12:29am - 4 comments
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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 ...
shiraz - 2015/04/03 - 10:42pm - 7 comments