Articles in the Writing for a Living Category
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I started putting my diary entries onto computer in the last few months of my pregnancy as a way of keeping myself occupied when I was feeling huge and unable to go about my usual abundance of everyday tasks. When my baby, Cole Jayden, was born I put my writing on hold and concentrated on being a mum and getting to grips with everything that it entailed. Once Cole was around 6 months I started writing again fitting it around his nap and sleep times and shortly after his first …
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Mr Site is looking for experts to contribute articles to its new business academy site. Head of Communications Nicola Kazemi explains, “ Mr Site is a web hosting company that offers a website building package called Takeaway Website. Many of our customers are small business start-ups and we are keen to assist them develop and expand their enterprises as much as possible. As part of this, we are launching a new resource called the ‘Business Academy’ – it’s basically a library of useful …
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Suzy Greaves set my on my journey to becoming an entrepreneur and author, and she’s an amazing person to work with. Next month, if you have always wanted to write a book, Suzy has an amazing course to help you. She writes, “I went to see Elizabeth Gilbert last night. Author of the beautiful bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love (now a film with Julia Roberts), Elizabeth was being interviewed by Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programmes at New York Library. Despite being at the sold out Cadogan Hall, in Chelsea, …
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I made the decision years ago that my motivation for writing a book would be purely to achieve an ambition rather than for monetary reasons. If, however, I could write and make a living whilst being able to spend quality time with my baby Cole then I would indeed have found my dream job that of being a mother first and foremost and an author on the side.
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I wrote my first short story while at primary school. My mum keen to encourage any form of creativity hot footed it down to a lady in the village who owned a typewriter. A few days later she returned it, typed and bound in one of those little plastic folders with a red spine and that was it I thought I was a published author!









