I don't know what to be saying!

Desperate for a blogger – writers block. I would much prefer it was a wooden block. I could fire that up.

Or a building block – I could build on that.

But bloomin' writers' block. It must be like a Blocker in Football, one thump knocks you about and you take time to recover.

Now that's a start, lets hope it continues.  

Hey I'm cured. I know what to say!

Buy my new book!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Wicker-Wood-Lazarian-Wordsmith/dp/1500691364

My First Goodreads Giveaway Completed.

I put a paperback of my first book, “The Knowledge Seekers & The Land OF Cudhabeen” into a Goodreads Giveaway for the UK and Ireland.

One hundred readers applied for the 10 free copies.

Today I dispatched the final book.

It was strange though, that no one in Ireland won a copy – the Goodreads team did the selection of the winners.

I don't even know if anyone in Ireland applied!

Self Publishing Success Story - His "Children of The Dead End" - is a masterpiece!

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” 
― Stephen King

Patrick McGill was born near Glenties and *educated locally*. At the age of twelve he was sent to the Hiring Fair in Strabane, County Tyrone where he was hired to a wealthy farmer. After two years McGill went to work as a labourer on the Glasgow to Greenock line of the Caledonian Railway in Scotland and, at the age of twenty-one, he self-published a volume of poetry entitled *Gleanings from a Navvy's Scrapebook* which he sold door to door, apparently selling over seven thousand copies. McGill published two more poetry volumes to mixed critical acclaim before moving to London where he began writing novels. 
In 1914 McGill published an fictional account of the harsh life endured by Irish emigrant workers in Scotland entitled *Children of the Dead End* which was followed by its companion novel *The Rat Pit*. Both novels were best sellers.
During World War I McGill fought with the London Irish Rifles and his war memories are vividly recorded in *The Great Push* (1916) and *The Red Horizon*(1916) and in a volume of poetry, *Soldier Songs from the Great Push*.
McGill continued to write poetry, fiction and drama into the 1930's but his first literary endeavours remained his best. 
Courtesy of:- Donegal on the Net 

* Left school at 12 years old, read every book he clould get his hand on, then produced the work above.

Very good advice for a writter using a Pen-Name.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

So now that I'm lazarian Wordsmith, I have to create myself and my work.

Hold on - I've done that!

http://www.amazon.com/Lazarian-Wordsmith/e/B00JZMOSP2

I love this quote and this is why!

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

I participate in a forum where "writers" post links to their latest "masterpiece". Self publishing has a lot to answer for!

They are usually badly written, badly formatted, not punctuated, and generally terrible to try and read.

So why, instead of writing like a TV sit-com script, will they not heed the advice above, and go and read a book, before they produce "Gibberish" and dare to call themselved "Published Writers".