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Chapter 3 Introductions

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My arrival at my new employer could be described best as accidentally falling from a moving car, and landing completely unscathed, on your feet.

Chapter 2 First Day

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The digital wail of an alarm clock rips into the remnants of the quite wonderful dream I was having about Jet from Gladiators, and I crack an eye open. A sil...

Chapter 1

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I am going to post the various scribblings that contribute to my NaNoWriMo attempt into my blog. An hour this morning has seen the first 2000 words committed...

Nanowrimo Starts

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It’s officially the 1st November. Over the next month, if all goes well, I will write my first novel.

Slight Disaster

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Guess who was monkeying with his personal webspace at lunchtime and managed to wipe his blog from existence ?

Snotty Laptops And Strange Dreams

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I’m writing from the train once again. It’s 7:37am at the time of writing. I was up just before 6 - a luxury afforded by half term, and the children not requ...

The Ignorati

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I mentioned the term “Ignorati” in a post a few days ago - an inspired term to describe the nutters I typically have to put up with while commuting into and ...

New York Times In Trouble

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Even though new media mouthpieces have been shouting for some time about the end of print newspapers, it still comes as quite a shock when perhaps the bigges...

Days From Nanowrimo

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We are days away from the start of NaNoWriMo, and I have not given any thought at all to the story I am going to write. Am I worried? Yes and No.

The Haircut Experience

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Yesterday morning, on the way to work I dropped into one of the local barbers to get my hair cut. Little did I know that I would get to meet perhaps the most...