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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 50 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.

Sunday 8 September 2024

Not only dog magazines!

I've decided to spread out! I've written a lot about dogs, but no other pets. So, it's time to do something about that. I've recently had an article in Dogs Today magazine about 'Does your dog make you happy?' Well, I've realized that this article can act as a template for an article 'Does your pet make you happy?' All it needs is some more research into what the 'experts' and pet owners have to say. Below is my 'pitch' to the editor of Pet magazine...

Thursday 5 September 2024

Breathe again!

I finished and submitted my article on the 'Cinnamon Trust' today. I also began to research material for my article about 'Dogs in Flight'.

This evening I edited and submitted my article 'Does your dog make you happy?' to Breathe magazine.



Dogs in Flight

Hi folks,

I'm now researching material for an article on dogs being carried in aeroplanes. There are some real horror stories out there. If you have any bad or sad stories to tell, please email me at sloughwriter@gmail.com Thanks.



Sunday 1 September 2024

Early Monday Morning.


It's 04.49 and time to get some writing done. But there's a snag. In order to write my feature on 'The Cinnamon Trust', I have to wait for some of the volunteers to email me. I have a full interview transcribed from the PR officer of CT. More on that later.

I'm sneaking around the net for some inspiration. More later...

BTW: Ignore the time on the postings on this blog software. It's US time.

 

Sunday

The week's gone so quickly! I've produced 'mini' websites and uploaded them. I may have already posted these links before, but here they are in case I haven't:
I'm trying to prepare carefully to make my 'Writing for Magazines' workshop for Slough Writers group as entertaining and educational as possible.
Wish me luck!