Comments for Simonsaystesting's Weblog http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:00:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Hello world! by Mr WordPress http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/hello-world/#comment-1 Mr WordPress Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:00:52 +0000 #comment-1 Hi, this is a comment.<br />To delete a comment, just log in, and view the posts' comments, there you will have the option to edit or delete them. Hi, this is a comment.
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]]> Comment on Guestbook by THABI http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-3 THABI Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:09:22 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-3 Good to know you have moved on.I read your articles and once submitted a sample to you which you gracefully turned down(it was bad!) but you were very encouraging. Good to know you have moved on.I read your articles and once submitted a sample to you which you gracefully turned down(it was bad!) but you were very encouraging.

]]> Comment on Guestbook by Cat Randle http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-43 Cat Randle Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:17:33 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-43 I found your website while researching The Winchester Writers Festival. I enjoyed your comments about your negative review for Shopping While Drunk. Now we can read on and made up our own minds. Of course there is the chance we will go and find your book to see what the fuss is about. Either way its nice to be able to make up our own minds. I like being treated like an adult not a unit to be sold books to. Cheers Simon. I found your website while researching The Winchester Writers Festival. I enjoyed your comments about your negative review for Shopping While Drunk. Now we can read on and made up our own minds. Of course there is the chance we will go and find your book to see what the fuss is about. Either way its nice to be able to make up our own minds. I like being treated like an adult not a unit to be sold books to. Cheers Simon.

]]> Comment on Guestbook by Mary http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-40 Mary Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:30:01 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-40 Hello Simon, Interesting website with lots of sound advice. Thanks. It does us good to hear of success stories even if the novel I have written never sees the light of day! When I see how many people are 'at it' and how difficult it is get lucky it kinda puts me off sending it anywhere. I enjoyed writing it though, and have even begun another one. Cheers x Hello Simon,
Interesting website with lots of sound advice. Thanks. It does us good to hear of success stories even if the novel I have written never sees the light of day! When I see how many people are ‘at it’ and how difficult it is get lucky it kinda puts me off sending it anywhere. I enjoyed writing it though, and have even begun another one. Cheers x

]]> Comment on Guestbook by Zuhaib http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-93 Zuhaib Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:05:22 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-93 Hi Simon, Thanks for all your advice on how to present manuscripts. im glad I sent mine to you. Thanks again. Take care :) Hi Simon,

Thanks for all your advice on how to present manuscripts. im glad I sent mine to you. Thanks again. Take care :)

]]> Comment on Guestbook by Dan Edlin http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-79 Dan Edlin Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:12:11 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-79 I have emailed someone about it. Thanks. I have emailed someone about it. Thanks.

]]> Comment on OOPS I READ IT AGAIN…. by Ross Quirk http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/oops-i-read-it-again/#comment-146 Ross Quirk Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:44:12 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/2007/11/09/oops-i-read-it-again/#comment-146 There are a million books that we'll never have the chance to read, due mainly to human expectancy, yet we always go back to the books that make us think/feel/relax. Books are as subjective as any other form of art, thus it seems only fair that we go back to a novel as we do a painting or a song or photograph. I've read the Quiet American 5 times, not because it is my favourite book, but because I like to get lost in the period. Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter, and my life a wee bit longer, I could happily read it a dozen times. Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first. Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter i'd be immersed in Russia. Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first. There are a million books that we’ll never have the chance to read, due mainly to human expectancy, yet we always go back to the books that make us think/feel/relax.

Books are as subjective as any other form of art, thus it seems only fair that we go back to a novel as we do a painting or a song or photograph.

I’ve read the Quiet American 5 times, not because it is my favourite book, but because I like to get lost in the period.

Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter, and my life a wee bit longer, I could happily read it a dozen times. Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.

Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter i’d be immersed in Russia. Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.

]]> Comment on Guestbook by Anne Lyken-Garner http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-6 Anne Lyken-Garner Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:30:09 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-6 Hi Simon, I was given your website address by a fellow writer (who I 'met' on a writing forum) who has seen some excerpts from my book. She said that YOU are the person to contact. I would be so bold as to do that shortly. I will send you a website sumbission, but I will also post you one if you don't mind. I went to a 'write your own novel' workshop (quite an expensive one, mind) and one of the things they said was that agents prefer paper in their hands, as most manuscripts' reading is done away from the office. I'm going to follow this advice (why pay for it, and not heed it right?). Another thing they said was to keep all correspndence short, so maybe I've already gone over my quota. Now I won't ever convince you to read my work. Anne Hi Simon, I was given your website address by a fellow writer (who I ‘met’ on a writing forum) who has seen some excerpts from my book. She said that YOU are the person to contact.

I would be so bold as to do that shortly. I will send you a website sumbission, but I will also post you one if you don’t mind.

I went to a ‘write your own novel’ workshop (quite an expensive one, mind) and one of the things they said was that agents prefer paper in their hands, as most manuscripts’ reading is done away from the office.

I’m going to follow this advice (why pay for it, and not heed it right?).

Another thing they said was to keep all correspndence short, so maybe I’ve already gone over my quota. Now I won’t ever convince you to read my work.

Anne

]]> Comment on Guestbook by Tina http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-22 Tina Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:39:31 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-22 Hello Simon , I found a link to your website through www.bloomsbury.com. I'm in the process of writing a fiction and I must say that your advices and the link to Julia McCutchen's website were really useful. Thanks. Hello Simon ,
I found a link to your website through http://www.bloomsbury.com.
I’m in the process of writing a fiction and I must say that your advices and the link to Julia McCutchen’s website were really useful.
Thanks.

]]> Comment on Guestbook by Susan Surman http://simonsaystesting.wordpress.com/guestbook/#comment-5 Susan Surman Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:10:57 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-5 As an actress turned writer, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Simon's background and, in some ways, could relate. Boston-born, I lived abroad for nearly 25 years, acting/writing (as Susan Kramer/Gracie Luck) in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Dublin. The pivot came very quickly. I was rehearsing for a TV show, had to take the train to a draughty church hall with my lunch in a brown paper sack...the same week, I was meeting with a producer about my screenplay, "You're Never Alone With Schizophrenia" and I was taken to lunch in a chauffeur driven white Rolls Royce. That, plus the producer's words: "We can get 2000 actresses to play a role, if you can write, we bow down to you" determined my next steps. "I'll stick to writing"....Performed, published, now looking for an agent - my 2 agents are now dead - maybe this time... Simon Trewin?????? As an actress turned writer, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Simon’s background and, in some ways, could relate. Boston-born, I lived abroad for nearly 25 years, acting/writing (as Susan Kramer/Gracie Luck) in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Dublin. The pivot came very quickly. I was rehearsing for a TV show, had to take the train to a draughty church hall with my lunch in a brown paper sack…the same week, I was meeting with a producer about my screenplay, “You’re Never Alone With Schizophrenia” and I was taken to lunch in a chauffeur driven white Rolls Royce. That, plus the producer’s words: “We can get 2000 actresses to play a role, if you can write, we bow down to you” determined my next steps. “I’ll stick to writing”….Performed, published, now looking for an agent – my 2 agents are now dead – maybe this time… Simon Trewin??????

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