Writing in Scotland

This blog is being repurposed to be a support, blog, news platform for a project I started on sourceforge.net for the development of Scots Language Digital Tools, including but not limited to spell check dictionaries, thesaurus, and grammar checker. Anyone interested in participating please contact me at mr tony dyer at google mail dot com ( take out the spaces and convert the punctuation).

I’ve got a bit of a learning curve so it will ramp up slowly for a month or so but I want to see concrete results by mid 2012.

Ambitious, perhaps, but I feel inspired.

It’s the third one so go to http://scotiabar.net/ to get an application form before it’s too late.

Have a look at http://www.nawe.co.uk/DB/events/turning-the-next-page.html and see what you think.

For all you budding script writers have a look at http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/

For you budding scriptwriters there’s the free annual script writing extraviganza at http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/ . Lots of motivation and great resources. Take a look and produce…

It’s here again. Starting on the 1st Novemeber  and finishing midnight 30th November, it’s your chance to join in with thousands of writers across the world and use Nanowrimo to get you writing in bulk. Fifty thousand words in thirty days, that 50,000 in 30 days.

 Sounds a lot, but when you break it down it’s only 1667 words per day. If you type at a modest thirty (30) words per minute then that’s under one hour of typing a day for thirty days. And on successful completion of your 50,000 words you can legitimately call yourself a novelist even though you’re currently an unpublished one.

 They have a great site at http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and there are many other resources out there. Lazette Gifford has an excellent e-book that you can download from http://www.lazette.net/Free%20Stuff/NaNo.htm and it’s got lots of sound advice on being successful.

By The Way Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The title was selected with high hopes but who would have guessed that it would become an international phenomenon.

Closing date for entries 8th August 2010.

Heats take place from 11th August 2010.

Entry form and rules can be found at http://www.scotiabar.net/

It’s here again. Starting on the 1st Novemeber 2009 and finishing midnight 30th November 2009, it’s your chance to join in with thousands of writers across the world and use Nanowrimo to get you writing in bulk. Fifty thousand words in thirty days, that 50,000 in 30 days.
Sounds a lot, but when you break it down it’s only 1667 words per day. If you type at a modest thirty (30) words per minute then that’s under one hour of typing a day for thirty days.
And on successful completion of your 50,000 words you can legitimately call yourself a novelist even though you’re currently an unpublished one.
They have a great site at http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and there are many other resources out there. Lazette Gifford has an excellent e-book that you can download from http://www.lazette.net/Free%20Stuff/NaNo.htm and it’s got lots of sound advice on being successful.
By The Way Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The title was selected with high hopes but who would have guessed that it would become an international phenomenon.

Support Nanowrimo 2009

Hello, and welcome to the WRITING IN SCOTLAND weblog that will look at all things writerly in Scotland. This will include readings, reviews, events, writer group news, contests, publishing news, etc.