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…1950s back court tenements in Docklands Govan in Glasgow were awesome places…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
……it was a different landscape back in the 1950s in the big cities of the UK… Docklands Govan in Glasgow, where Master Gallacher spent his infancy, had more than its share of rented tenement housing… up to three-storeys-high, grey, austere, stone buildings, sum’times red, depending on the material available when…
…authors bashing other writers’ work?… how very dare they!…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the other day, I read a post from my Facebook friend, the wunnerfully prolific Authoress, m’Lady, Charity Parkerson, in which she shared her annoyance at seeing some authors viciously ravaging other scribblers’ books… …I am solidly in her corner with that sentiment… since the beginning of my own journey ten…
Cliché…
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Cliché Hackneyed, outworn, Sighing, mourning, why-ing Penned expressions of emotion Human * It is, they say, just a cliché To pen a mournful verse, An ode to love, a billet doux, A burning flame…or worse… And yet, the universal pen Of lovers everywhere Turns first to rhyme…
… ‘that damned, elusive Pimpernel… for ‘Pimpernel’, read ‘Literary Agent’…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler has been at this glorious writing game now for ten years… not so much, ‘man and boy’, more ‘man and older man’… during that time, the joys, the excitement, the much-more-ups-than-downs, have attended my creation of the wee literary masterpieces which have become the Jack…
…here was a Scottish football referee yeez DIDN’T dare meddle with… Tom ‘Tiny’ Wharton… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…even those of yeez with a brain as sharp as a billiard ball will note the relative physical stature of the man in black versus the football players in the photograph above… at 6 feet 4 inches without his studded boots, Tom Wharton was a refereeing giant… in the customary…
…no, Authors… writing PERFECTION is NOT your objective…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…blasphemy?… heresy?… ravings of a mad writer?… signs of an author finally succumbing to the madness that years of tilting at imaginary characters bring?… that this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler should posit that the purpose of creative writing is NOT to achieve perfection?… p’raps, Mabel, but just hold on a…
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