• benwesterham (59)in #wednesdaywalk • 11 days ago

  A visit to the town of Rugby

  My Wednesday Afternoon Wandering this week took me to the town of Rugby, which is in the English Midlands, in the county of Warwickshire, about 85 miles north of London. There are quite a few pubs in the

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• benwesterham (59)in #writing • 17 days ago

  What Comes Next?

  I am about two-thirds of the way through writing a new book in an existing series and I know already this will be the last book I write in that series. I’ve loved writing these particular stories, but

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• benwesterham (59)in #books • 2 months ago

  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  I recently re-read Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles and there are a few things I’d forgotten since first reading it many years ago. Image For one, it’s told from the point of view of Captain

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• benwesterham (59)in #writing • 2 months ago

  The Lure of an Irresistible New Character

  I am writing the third book in my Alexander Templeman series of old fashioned espionage thrillers and something happened this week which, when it occurs, always leaves me with a bit of conundrum. You see,

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• benwesterham (59)in #books • 2 months ago

  Christmas Crimes

  Seeing how we are fast approaching the festive period I thought I’d do some digging to see how many crime and mystery novels I could find that are set during the Christmas period. Turns out there are quite

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• benwesterham (59)in #wednesdaywalk • 2 months ago

  Car Heaven at the British Motor Museum

  I've got a bit of treat today for all you petrol heads out there. For this week's Wednesday Afternoon Wandering I paid a visit to the British Motor Museum. It had been a long time indeed since I'd last

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• benwesterham (59)in #author • 2 months ago

  That Thing Called Marketing

  When you first set out to write your own stories all the focus is on doing precisely that, writing, and quite frankly that’s what I am sure all us authors would like to be spending all our time doing.

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• benwesterham (59)in #writing • 3 months ago

  Re-writes, Heaven or Hell?

  Re-writes and edits are an essential part of putting together a new story, but we authors don’t all do things the same when it comes to this part of the process. In fact, compared to some, I might seem

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• benwesterham (59)in #wednesdaywalk • 3 months ago

  A Wonderful World of Trees

  I'm a bit of a tree fan and have planted quite a few in our garden. It ought to be no surprise, therefore, that I'm always keen on visiting an arboretum and, having spent most of this year telling my wife

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• benwesterham (59)in #teamuk • 3 months ago

  Getting Paid to Read. Seriously?

  When I’m not writing, I spend a fair amount of my time reading, both fiction and non-fiction. In fact, I’d like to spend more time reading, but, you know, day-to-day life keeps getting in the way. Reading

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• benwesterham (59)in #wednesdaywalk • 3 months ago

  The Fair is in Town

  I think we all like a fair, don’t we? I know I do. All those fabulous rides, the screams and laughter, the food, the drinks, and the happy smiles on the faces of children and adults alike. Well, it just

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• benwesterham (59)in #reading • 4 months ago

  A Favourite Place to Read

  I have, for some time now, had a well established writing routine, which sees me show up at the same place and time each day. But I recently shifted some furniture around in our living room and soon realised

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• benwesterham (59)in #wednesdaywalk • 4 months ago

  Say Hello to Stratford-upon-Avon

  For my Wednesday afternoon wandering this week I paid a visit to the home town of William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, which is in the English Midlands. Although I only live about a forty-five minutes

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• benwesterham (59)in #creator • 4 months ago

  The Disruptive Creator

  From time to time I like to take one of those personality type tests. It can be amusing as well as informative to see the results. I did one of these a while back and had forgotten about it until I stumbled

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• benwesterham (59)in #writing • 4 months ago

  I am Not Alone

  Us creative types, especially those of us who spend most of our time working alone, can become a bit self-obsessed at times. Or maybe I should have said, completely self-obsessed. When this happens I have

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• benwesterham (59)in #writing • 4 months ago

  A Man of Many Hats

  When I first started writing stories it seemed all there was to do was, well, to write stories. But time and experience has shown that is not quite true and that I do, in fact, have to be a man who wears

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• benwesterham (59)in #writing • 5 months ago

  How do you deal with interruptions?

  I’ve been really good about staying disciplined and writing for about 2.5 hours every morning since I went full-time with my writing last autumn. But there is a persistent problem that’s been bugging me,

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• benwesterham (59)in #books • 6 months ago

  Shock! Horror! Someone Scribbled in a Book I Bought

  Yes, it’s true, I had the desperately unsettling experience the other day of opening a book I had bought second-hand from a well-known on-line market-place only to find a previous owner had scribbled notes

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• benwesterham (59)in #books • 6 months ago

  Do You Forget What Books You’ve Read?

  Do you ever have that realisation that you can’t remember what books you’ve read? I did and it started bothering me. So I decided to do something about it. Image It seems to me that, given the amount of

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• benwesterham (59)in #writing • 6 months ago

  BloggingTastic

  I noticed the other day that I have now written and posted nearly 26,000 words to my blog. That’s a fair few words and certainly enough for a novella. It also takes time to put all those posts together,

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