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I am a 68-year-old gay disabled amateur part-time writer living in Slough, Berkshire UK. I have published around 60 articles in 20 leisure and lifestyle magazines. I live with a range of health issues including heart disease, chronic kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes, depression, atrial fibrillation and restless leg syndrome. (I'm working my way through the medical dictionary!). I'm a member of Slough Writer's Group which is interesting and informative. Latest News. 10th July 2023 Awarded 'The Sandy Lee-Guard Award for Endeavour' by the Slough Writers Group. 6th December 2023 Completed studying 'Writing for Magazines' with CityLit University. January 2nd 2024. Fell over in the lounge and fractured my left femur (whilst recovering from fracturing my right femur in July 2023). Recovery expected to take 6 - 8 months. May 2024. Completed studying ' National Centre for Writing' course 'Creative Non-Fiction - An Introduction'. You can see the articles that have been published in the 'LATEST WORK' section of my website. It's at http://richardhill.co.uk/latest.html

Friday 15 December 2023

Friday

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Stand in front of the magazine shelves in any large store and the chances are you’ll see hundreds, if not thousands, of publications, ranging from quarterlies, monthlies, weeklies, and even the daily newspapers. 

...there are hundreds of thousands of publications, ranging from freebie magazines given away in supermarkets, banks, and other retailers to in-house publications produced to keep staff informed in companies up and down the country.

Now, take a step back... and reconfigure what you see before you. Don’t think of them as individual publications. Instead, think of them as collections of articles. Every single article was written by someone. And tomorrow the daily newspapers need another batch of articles, next week the weeklies will need filling with new material, next month the monthlies will need a complete change of articles, and in three months the quarterlies will need new features too.

© Simon Whaley. 'THE COMPLETE ARTICLE WRITER'

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