Diary of a Scaredy Cat
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Diary of a Scaredy Cat: a year in the life of a frightened writer
Diane Wordsworth was struggling to get back into the swing of being a full-time freelance writer. She'd done it very well in the past, thank you very much. But years of editing books for various publishers had taken her out of the discipline of the freelance writing world and she needed to get back in. When she met her future husband in 2013, he very quickly encouraged her to gradually do more of her own work while he supported her as best he could. This is Diane's account of that first year as she tried to get back onto the writing ladder. It was written as part of her blog, Tales From Baggins Bottom. But this anthology includes 165 practical writing exercises not previously published.
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Diane Wordsworth was born and bred in Solihull in the West Midlands when it was still Warwickshire in England. She started to write for magazines in 1985 and became a full time freelance photo-journalist in 1996. In 1998 she became sub-editor for several education trade magazines and started to edit classroom resources, text books and non-fiction books.
In 2004 Diane moved from the Midlands to South Yorkshire where she edited an in-house magazine for an international steel company for six years. She still edits and writes on a freelance basis.
