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From Authority to Authorship: The definitive guide to jump start your book

From Authority to Authorship: The definitive guide to jump start your book

Are you a business professional or expert? Do you want to become a published author? This book provides a route-map for your journey to authorship.

2020

Stories

Critiquing poetry

Before the launch of a new online poetry group, I revisit my essay on “Critiquing Poetry” from 2000 and find my ideas are mostly unchanged.

Nov 28, 2024

Highly stylised, black and white comic style line drawing of woman lying on her back reading and holding a second book. While the woman appears to be naked, the twisting of her body and the placement of the books cover any indiscretions.

Nov 28, 2024

Home thoughts from abroad

This morning, for the first time since I’ve been back in Spain, I felt homesick…

Nov 19, 2024

Home thoughts from abroad

Nov 19, 2024

The joy of spuds

The humble potato provides food for thought.

Oct 2, 2024

Small purple star-shaped flowers with pronounced yellow centres similar to nightshade or potato. UK. May 2016. Possibly Chilean nightshade.

Oct 2, 2024

Variations on a theme

By its very nature, it’s impossible to retain all the elements when we translate poetry. What is the “essence” that we try to preserve?

Sep 3, 2024

Variations on a theme

Sep 3, 2024

Word games

Prompts and challenges are tremendously popular at writing workshops. Sometimes, though, they completely miss the point.

Aug 27, 2024

Close up of circular metal studs on the side of the iconic Selfridges building in central Birmingham, UK.

Aug 27, 2024

Pancho the cat

It’s a fundamental law of life: los perros son de las personas, pero los gatos son de los lugares. And Pancho belonged to the streets of…

May 31, 2024

Black street cat with wide open yellow eyes. Cat is sitting behind widely -spaced black railings as if in a cage, although he could easily walk between the railings. The railings are old and there is a green fabric behind the cat with a hole in it through which a cardboard box cn be seen.

May 31, 2024

Exploring innovation

Innovation seems to be offered as a salve to all the woes of the world. Perhaps it would be as well to work out what it actually means.

Mar 29, 2024

An antique wooden pulley wheel still in situ in a refurbished building.

Mar 29, 2024

The glory of language

Do we control the language we use, or does the language we use control the way we think?

Feb 12, 2024

Yellow and red tulips in a vase. The vase is not visible. Picture focus is a single wide open yellow and red flower in the foreground.

Feb 12, 2024

A question of genre

So what is “creative non-fiction”?

Feb 8, 2024

Close up of keys on an antique typewriter.

Feb 8, 2024

Thinking about thought-leadership

Why the process of writing matters and why ChatGPT may not be going to replace you as a writer.

Jan 26, 2024

Jan 26, 2024

Gwyneth Box

Gwyneth Box

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Business owner/poet/language lover. Exploring the blurred borders between writer & narrator; memoir & invention; translation & creation; work & personal life.

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