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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

Thursday 28 December 2023

Thursday Troubles

I had a bad night last night. I slept for no more than an hour. As I couldn't sleep, I began writing the Wayne May article for Dogs Today magazine at around 6am. I finished and submitted it at around 11am after only a couple of rewrites. Here's an extract:

Wayne May was a victim of theft years ago. “I used to show my dogs and they (criminals) followed me home from a dog show and stole my dogs”. Wayne had six dogs stolen. “We got home from the dog show and we bathed the dogs and we fed them and we were sitting down in our living room having our tea.”, says Wayne, “It was later in the year so it was getting dark early and the dogs started barking and when I went out into the back yard to see why the dogs were barking, they were already in the process of stealing my dogs.”

 The editor liked it.

Tonight, I've been trying to find a very simple audio editor so that I can put a few seconds of the interview on here. But to no avail.

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