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Working under Pressure | Posters

Fri, 30/04/2004 - 11:00pm
WORKING UNDER PRESSURE

Brooks’ Law

Adding people to a late project makes it later.

Murphy’s Law of Thermodynamics

Things get worse under pressure.

Bove’s theorem

The remaining work increases as the deadline approaches.

Meskimen’s Law

There is never enough time to do it right, but time can always be found to do it all again.  Read more

Getting it wrong | Posters

Wed, 01/01/2003 - 12:00am
The experts don't always get it right

Some consolation for the creative genius.

'The Americans may have need of the telephone but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.' Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the General Post Office in Britain


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Computers | Posters

Wed, 01/01/2003 - 12:00am

Point, click and.... PRAY

When all else fails, read the instructions.

Things work better if they are plugged in.

You don’t really know what you want till you get what you don’t want.

Blessed is the end user who expects nothing for they will not be disappointed.  Read more

Printer's Devil | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
The Printer's Devil
Photo - Print Devil 1Whose fault?

There was a convenient belief among printers that  Read more

Training | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am

Poster - Reorganisation 1Petronius, Proconsul of Bithynia (beside the Black Sea  Read more

Writers on Writing | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am

‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it ... and delete it before sending your manuscript to the press.'

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

 

'It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.'

Gustave Flaubert

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Experts | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
EXPERTS - WHO NEEDS THEM?

Nolan’s Placebo

An ounce of imagination is worth a pound of performance.

Peer’s Law

The solution to any problem changes that problem.

Gummidge’s Law

The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the public.  Read more

More Experts | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
MORE WISDOM FROM THE EXPERTS

Robert E Lee’s Contribution

Judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgEment.


Hope’s Rule

Brave men run in our family.


Murphy’s Fourth Law

If it is possible for several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage is the one that will actually go wrong.  Read more

Teamwork | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am

Teamwork

There are four people named

    Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.  Read more

Writers' quotes | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am

‘Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.’

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

'Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.'

Marcel Proust

 

'Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.'  Read more

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Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2020

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Closing date: 
2 March 2020
Entry: 
Open to writers of any nationality writing in English. Entry fee £20
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£15,000 for each prize plus a publishing deal with Bonnier for Best Unpublished Manuscript

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'Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.'

— J K Rowling

'The biggest kick'

20 January 2020

‘The biggest kick is reading something new and exciting and then getting other people to share your enthusiasm... Beyond all the cant and hypocrisy in publishing, that's what it's all about...'

On receiving the Maxwell Perkins Award for lifetime achievement:  Read more