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Top Five Posts in March

On March 28, 2013 By djmac
Searching forlornly for spring? Why not warm the cockles of your heart in the rich, warm prose on the site. Here are the five most-read posts during March. Well, six really, but there's a reason for that...
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Busy at the Office: guest blog by Martin Redfern

On March 22, 2013 By djmac
Martin Redfern is one of the most popular guest bloggers on DJ Mac. 'Busy at the Office' has just been published in Ink Sweat & Tears and in this post he shares his tender prose with us.
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Far Off Places: Issue 1 Review

On March 19, 2013 By djmac
“A precocious child who likes to clamber into nooks and crannies and who tells herself stories" - a description of 'Far Off Places' which has just launched. How does this child shape up? Prodigy, needs a nanny or straight to the naughty step?
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25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer

On March 13, 2013 By djmac
I struggle sometimes to translate my ideas into action. I will have a great thought, a bit of passion and a perfect time window just right for developing the idea. Then something very urgent and terribly important gets in the way - something like email, belly-button defluffing, polishing the teaspoons or Words With Friends. Fiendish time vacuums.
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Five reasons to join a writers' group

On February 23, 2013 By djmac
Several blogs on DJ Mac were written by fellow members of our Binge Inkers Writing Group. Being a member of the group has inspired me and has been at the creative core of my writing. Here are five reasons to join a writers' group.
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Top 5 posts on DJ Mac

On February 17, 2013 By djmac
Although the site has only been up and running for a wee while, it’s had plenty of visitors dipping in and out. Five posts stand out as the most popular by ‘hits’. Here they are!
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Woodland Path: Guest Blog by Jo Stevens

On January 23, 2013 By djmac
Thank you for asking me to contribute.  ‘Woodland Path’ is one of my first poems since coming back to writing, so I thought it would be an appropriate choice for my first foray into posting my writing online!  It connects significant stages in life with a season, reflected through imagery and perspective
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Humour. It's a serious business

On January 20, 2013 By djmac
The consensus seems to be you either have it or you don’t – the ability to write funny material that is. There is some hope to be found in Will Rogers’s observation that ‘Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.’
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25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer

On January 15, 2013 By djmac
99u is a great resource. The name is based on the famous Edison quote: ‘Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.’ As they say, ‘It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.’
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Lions and Tigers and Bears. Oh, My!

On January 9, 2013 By djmac
Dorothy: Do you suppose we’ll meet any live animals? Tin Woodsman: Mm, we might. Scarecrow: Animals that eat… s-traw? Tin Woodsman: Some, but mostly lions and tigers and bears. Dorothy: Lions? Scarecrow: And tigers? Tin Woodsman: And Bears.
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Itching to get started

On January 1, 2013 By djmac
“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can” – Samuel Lover
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  • An anthology of modern short fiction recounting the quirkiness of the everyday, featuring DJ Mac and others.
  • DJ Mac is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland who fouters (dithers) with an itchy, scratchy pen in the moments when the bewilderment provoked by life settles. He is easily distracted by the bright pictures in his gallery.
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