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Are You In A Bumble?

January 6, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Make like a Gumble and get through the new lockdown.

Dear Reader

June 21, 2020July 23, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 7 Comments

‘Who is your ideal reader?’  It was the question posed by one of The Saturdays – the given name of the five of us who zoom-write at the weekend.  Hard to say, was my answer, easier to say who my ideal writer is.  After all, I’ve thought about that, I’ve even acted upon it: told … Continue reading Dear Reader

Good Enough to Steal

February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Is there anything new under the sun?  Is anything we write or paint or compose truly original, or is every creative act influenced (hopefully for the good) by what has gone before, so that what we produced has been re-learned, repeated, tweaked?  Apparently whenever W.H. Auden read something in a book that he liked or … Continue reading Good Enough to Steal

Murder Your Darlings

November 27, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

Sometimes quoted as, ‘murder your darlings’ other times as, ‘kill your darlings’ -- whatever your preference, the advice amounts to the same thing: don’t scrimp when it comes to editing.  Take to your writing with a red pen and the eye of Marie Kondo going through kitchen cupboards that haven’t been reviewed in a decade, … Continue reading Murder Your Darlings

Honest Attention to the Particular

October 6, 2019January 10, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Do you ever come across a line of text that is as ripe and full as a fig and if you don't stop and eat it there and then you’ll forget what it is saying to you?  I’m talking about words that you must read again, re-view, go back over slowly so that the feeling … Continue reading Honest Attention to the Particular

Quiet Settles On The World

September 10, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Were you ever part of a conversation that veered into a spat and you longed to have the last word, but the other person wanted it just as badly, so you bickered on, losing yourselves in a futile spiral of words? Then, maybe you were lucky, and you realised the last word didn't matter; that you … Continue reading Quiet Settles On The World

Sticks and Stones

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

Is yours the skin of a rhinoceros through which no harsh words can penetrate?  Are you clad in waterproof feathers, the ones that adorn a duck’s back, so that criticism rolls from you, leaving you unaffected, rather than disaffected?  Do you have a certain kinship with that thin film of Teflon on my frying pan, … Continue reading Sticks and Stones

The Mad Ones

March 2, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

When I am on my own for too long, I crave company.  Then, when I get to spend time with people, I sometimes want to sit quietly and not talk too much.  Companionable silence isn't to everyone’s taste, but it’s worth giving pause, mid-conversation, to check oneself and to assess, as my friend N. used … Continue reading The Mad Ones

Everyone Has An Accent

February 1, 2019May 5, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

My husband used to say, “we are all ethnic somewhere.”  It is a true and wise leveller.  Another favourite line of his, in response to someone asking him, “Where is that accent from?” was to bounce back in his soft, mellifluous Canadian tones, “What accent?  I don't have an accent, you’re the one with the … Continue reading Everyone Has An Accent

Can’t Make It All Alone

December 24, 2018January 6, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

“It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you” (Fairytale of New York, The Pogues) “Is anyone going to help me peel this bottomless bag … Continue reading Can’t Make It All Alone

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I hope my online Edinburgh Press will, in time, hold a similar collection in words to that which is in my Edinburgh Press at home.  I will add to it as often as I can building a collection of memories and observations bubbling up from below, breaking the surface of my mind. I’ll send them out into the world where you can, if you want, share them. Welcome to My Edinburgh Press.

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