Saturday, September 22, 2007

Don’t Bin Your Research; You Never Know When It Might Come In Handy Again…

It happened to me just recently… I was reviewing a mountain of files containing research material gathered over the years; years when I was churning out one book after another, articles galore for offline and online magazines, fulfilling my obligations on syndicated newspaper columns. I thought about binning a huge chunk of it – but then I thought again - there’s enough stuff here to fill a directory. And so I set about creating one, splitting it into a myriad of sections, and sub-sections with stuff like… ? Articles ? Fiction ? Non-Fiction ? Poetry ? Theatre ? Film ? Television ? Contests ARTICLES - I’d written myself and had published; articles I’d collected from other writers of note. FICTION – Reams and reams of useful data that had contributed to m View the rest of this article


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