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I am a 69-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). May 2024. Completed studying ' National Centre for Writing' course 'Creative Non-Fiction - An Introduction'. 3rd November 2024. Began studying 'Article Writing and Freelance Journalism' with 'Writing Magazine'. Expected duration 8 Weeks.

Thursday, 4 April 2024

Thursday

I've had a frustrating day today. I'm setting up my 'Dannydog Productions' website. I used to use it when I had a 'media' organization, but when I  couldn't make it work, I abandoned it and the website www.dannydog.co.uk . However, I've decided to make it a place for 'links' to other 'writing' websites and resources. This is purely a 'hobby' project. I wanted to use the same 'homepage' that I'd previously used, but I'd lost all the files.

I remembered an online service called the 'Wayback Machine' at https://web.archive.org/. (The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts .). I used this service to look for it - and I found it listed from many years ago. I saved all the files, images, and HTML, and got it working on my pc. But it had a lot of additional HTML coding that I didn't need. 

However, when I removed the unwanted HTML coding and tried to open it in a file I created on my desktop, I couldn't get it to work. But it worked in the 'downloaded' file. To cut a long story short, I spent hours trying to get this to work, I managed to get it working, and www.dannydog.co.uk now 'sits' on www.richardhill.co.uk/ddog .

My next 'project' will be to create a website for this domain name. Watch this space.

Yesterday, I did some work on my final assignment. I wrote around 800 words toward the 1,500-word count. I shall do what I usually do when I'm writing articles and that is to write 30-50% more than the required word count. I then leave it alone for a few days and come back to it with fresh eyes. I then edit out the 'extra' number of words which I believe makes for a more powerful and punchy piece.



Today, I did almost nothing (apart from ordering the above hoodie! - apt, or what?!)

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