McGillum and Stott are an Engineering company who are providing services to the shipbuilding industry. An armoured security van arrives at the factory. Inside the van is nearly thirty thousand pounds, the wages for the past weeks labour for the three thousand employees. ( Check the wage rates for skilled, unskilled, office and management staff)
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So many crime writer come unstuck at this point of their novel. You’ve written what you consider an absolute killer of an opening. You’ve got the plot up to the point of no return. the ending is pretty clear in your mind.
Now what?
The middle or Act 2 of the book is where many would be […]

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i have been working feverishly on the video and I meant to have it on the site last night…honest.
Unfortunately, my son has got this terrible bug which is doing the rounds at the moment and is having a torrid time of it so I haven’t really been able to do a lot of posting .
It’s […]

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Ask a question and you’ll get another.
“If you were a complete novice” I asked a student who had attempted two novels and not finished them due to various problems, most of which stemmed from a lack of direction, “what would be the most important question you would ask?”
“That’s easy,” she replied. “Which is more important in […]

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 One of the common mistakes made by students when writing a hook, (the first paragraph of their novel)  goes something like tthis.
The rain beat down. Hogan could hardly see as he drove home. In the back seat were the flowers for his wife Marjorie’s birthday.
Suddenly, he  thought he saw a flash of light at the […]

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