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Leslie Garland

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Hermann Hesse (The Glass Bead Game)
Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
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I didn't start out in a career in writing; I qualified as a Chartered Civil Engineer. In this capacity I worked for several years on projects in the UK, the Far East and Africa. During this period I won the Institution of Civil Engineers 'Miller Prize' for a paper on tunnelling. Perhaps my first foray in to writing? It was a pretty dry technical piece. However my experience in tunnelling has given me an exciting idea for a story which I hope will be a lot more fun than my engineering paper and I have just recently made a start on this. Changing times resulted in a change in direction and after qualifying as an Associate Member of both the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Royal Photographic Society, started my own stock ...more

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Leslie Garland Can't help Pralash. I am with Amazon, but I wouldn't like to say it's the best as I don't know enough about all of them. What I can say is that Amazon…moreCan't help Pralash. I am with Amazon, but I wouldn't like to say it's the best as I don't know enough about all of them. What I can say is that Amazon is not in the least bit helpful regarding reviews as each of its sites are treated as seperate individual sites and so reviews posted on one site cannot be read on any other - so much for their claim about marketing your books around the world!
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Leslie Garland Hi Mehmet,

My apologies for replying to your question so late - no excuses except that I am not very good at checking these things.

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Hi Mehmet,

My apologies for replying to your question so late - no excuses except that I am not very good at checking these things.

Yes, I qualified as an engineer and practiced as same for a few years. Whether that helps one's writing I don't know. It certainly makes one conscious that the story has to logically 'fit together', that there should not be unintended loose ends, etc. I have been on Goodreads for several years now and still don't understand how to do various tasks. Unfortunately too much modern software is badly designed, being designed by the geek for the geek rather for Joe Punter who has no idea, and Goodreads is no exception! I don't think I would classify myself as an 'experienced author'. Yes, I have written a few books and yes, I am still writing. How many does one have to write and/or how long does one have to have written for to become 'experienced'? If you wish to click the 'friends' button, by all means do.

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It is a nice thought Teri, and thanks for it. However, I think it unlikely as I am the first in my family to 'get into writing' and, I don't know of any who emigrated in the 1960s. Let's just keep this between us?
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“Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

“You know,” he continued reflectively, “there is something very satisfying about making something, creating it, modelling it on your dream and making that dream become a reality. Yes, we all have dreams. That's the easy bit. It's making them come real that's not so easy.”
Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

“We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.”
Leslie W.P. Garland, The Little Dog

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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