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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.

Tuesday 29 October 2024

Tuesday

 I wrote yesterday: "I enrolled in a free online course on 'Article Writing and Freelance Journalism' which I'm sharing my studies with my writing.". I've studied a couple of units and discovered that it's not suitable for me, or for nonfiction writers like me. It's obviously written for writers who are aiming to write a book whereas I specialise in writing nonfiction articles of between 500 and 2,000 words for magazines.

This afternoon, I'm going to rewrite an article about my Grandfather, George Wiseman. He operated a horse-drawn narrowboat on the Shropshire Union Canal in the 1920s. He was responsible for collecting milk churns from the wharfs and farms and delivering them to the Cadbury crumb processing plant in Knighton. His story was the first article that I ever had published. It appeared in 'Canal & Riverboat' magazine in October 1996. You can read it here: http://richardhill.co.uk/shroppie.pdf

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