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For this post, I've been tagged by Valerie Laws to explain my writing process. We all tackle the job differently, don't we? There are one or two things we agree on, such as editing a lot and reading work aloud to spot the clunky bits, but there's no right and wrong way. It took me a while to find that out! Valerie Laws ( www.valerielaws.com ) is a crime novelist, poet, playwright and sci-art installation specialist. Of her thirteen published books, 4 are currently available as ebooks. A mathematics/physics graduate, she devises new poetic forms and science-themed poetry installations and commissions including the infamous Arts Council–funded   Quantum Sheep,   spray-painting haiku onto live sheep to celebrate quantum theory.   Much of her recent work arises from funded residencies with pathologists, neuroscientists, human specimens and dissections. Another quantum haiku on inflated beachballs in Hackney Lido featured in BBC2’...

#Game of Sevens Has anyone else been tagged recently to take part in this?  #Game of Sevens is a fun promotional tool for writers and it works as follows. ’ Being tagged’ means being invited by a  writer colleague to take part. You have to choose one of your current manuscripts, select either page seven or page seventy-seven, and count down seven lines. Next, you post the next seven sentences (more or less) as an extract of your work-in-progress, online, in as many places as you can, for instance, on Facebook, or on your website or blog. Then tag 2 more writers and request they do the same. The idea is to stimulate interest in your work by giving a glimpse into what you’re working on at the moment. So, Sue Price and Catherine Czerkawska, would you like to be tagged? I'd love to see what you’re both working on! It was my friend, writer Theresa Tomlinson,  who tagged me to do this. Here's a link to her website, for anyone intereste...