Richard

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Amateur part-time Writer
Location Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Introduction I am a 68-year-old gay disabled amateur part-time writer living in Slough, Berkshire UK. I have published around 50 articles in 20 leisure and lifestyle magazines. I live with a range of health issues including heart disease, chronic kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes, depression, atrial fibrillation and restless leg syndrome. (I'm working my way through the medical dictionary!). I'm a member of Slough Writer's Group which is interesting and informative. Latest News. 10th July 2023 Awarded 'The Sandy Lee-Guard Award for Endeavour' by the Slough Writers Group. 6th December 2023 Completed studying 'Writing for Magazines' with CityLit University. January 2nd 2024. Fell over in the lounge and fractured my left femur (whilst recovering from fracturing my right femur in July 2023). Recovery expected to take 6 - 8 months. May 2024. Completed studying ' National Centre for Writing' course 'Creative Non-Fiction - An Introduction'. You can see the articles that have been published in the 'LATEST WORK' section of my website.
Interests Writing, Photography, Dogs, Studying, writing HTML
Favorite Movies Phone Booth, The Kings Speech, Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Brokeback Mountain, Footloose, The Imitation Game.
Favorite Music Mike Oldfield (all), Supertramp, Simon & Garfunkel, Brit Floyd, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen. Mike Batt, Pet Shop Boys, Tom Paxton.
Favorite Books Full Disclosure by Andrew Neil, Sexual Outlaw by John Rechy. (I can't remember the titles, but I loved novels about LSD in the 70's)

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