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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

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

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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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

Murphy’s Law | Posters

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
THE LAWS ACCORDING TO MURPHY

Murphy’s First Law

 

If something can go wrong, it will

 

Murphy’s Second Law

 

Even if something can’t possibly go wrong, it will

 

Murphy’s Fourth Law

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The Master Plan | Posters

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

In the beginning was the plan

And then came the assumptions

And the assumptions were without form

And the plan was completely without substance

And darkness was upon the face of the workers.  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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February 2019
  • ‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies... I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it.
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The Moth Short Story Prize 2019

Information

Closing date: 
30 June 2019
Entry: 
Open to any writer over 16 from anywhere in the world Entry fee €15 per story
Prize: 
1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus €250 travel stipend and 3rd prize €1,000

This year's judge is Kit de Waal.

The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is a word limit of 5,000 words.

The winners will be announced in September 2019 and all three stories will appear in the autumn issue of the Morh Magazine.  Read more

'Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.'

— Anne Lamott

"Why am I writing this?"

11 February 2019

‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies...

I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it. Sometimes it doesn't go well, but most often, I'll look up and it's time for lunch and I don't know what happened...  Read more