Writing in Scotland

The Scots Language

Tony Dyer — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:38:14 +0000

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.

Scotia Bar’s Poet Laureate 2011 starting October.

Tony Dyer — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:35:35 +0000

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

Is this course targeted at the correct audience? Cut off date 4th April 2011

Tony Dyer — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:06:10 +0000

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

Script Frenzy starts 1st April 2011

Tony Dyer — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:03:01 +0000

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

It’s Script Frenzy in April

Tony Dyer — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:41:52 +0000

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…

Nanowrimo 2010 will be with us shortly.

Tony Dyer — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:05:38 +0000

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completion of your 50,000 words you can legitimately call yourself a novelist even though you’re currently an unpublished one.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.

Poet Laureate – The Scotia Bar August 2010

Tony Dyer — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:32:28 +0000

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/

Nanowrimo 2009 starts 1st November at nanowrimo.org

Tony Dyer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:42:25 +0000

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

The Start of a …

Tony Dyer — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:55:14 +0000

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.