Article By Louise Glen Published: 20:00, 11 March 2021
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A Highland cow.
A RAF veteran has turned his hand to photography to remind himself of how wonderful a place the Highlands are during the lockdown.
Engineer Gordon Doherty (49), originally from Antrim but now settled in the city, said the lockdown has given him the opportunity to find beauty every single day, as he makes his daily commute from home in Kirkhill to Foyers Power Station where he works.
Ness Bridge.
Mr Doherty said having time to take photos was one of the bonuses of Covid, and he hoped by sharing his pictures they would bring joy to other people.
Article By Louise Glen Published: 18:30, 11 March 2021
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A Highland cow.
A RAF veteran has turned his hand to photography to remind himself of how wonderful a place the Highlands are during the lockdown.
Engineer Gordon Doherty (49), originally from Antrim but now settled in the city, said the lockdown has given him the opportunity to find beauty every single day, as he makes his daily commute from home in Kirkhill to Foyers Power Station where he works.
Ness Bridge.
Mr Doherty said having time to take photos was one of the bonuses of Covid, and he hoped by sharing his pictures they would bring joy to other people.
How to Co-Author a Book: Building Continuity and Avoiding Pitfalls
Co-authors Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty share their top 5 tips for collaborating with another author on a project.
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Every few months, we would find a rental cottage somewhere between our respective hometowns and book it out for a long weekend. These get-togethers were where the project kicked off properly, and where all the subsequent big decisions took place. In truth, I don’t think we wrote a single sentence on these weekends. It was all about chatting over beers and asking each other questions to challenge assumptions and mould our plans for the story into something greater than either one of us could have achieved alone. We did produce some actual outputs, though a series and story plan document, a timeline doc, character profile sheets, and the like. Also, we agreed on the narrative style and story structure. It’s essential to establish this kind of framework before ploughing into the ac
Ripon writer Simon Turney, who loves roaming where the Romans roamed, has just published the first of a new trilogy co-written with his good friend Gordon Doherty SIMON TURNEY is a writer of historical fiction and non-fiction, and an obsessive Roman historian. The only thing I’m as obsessive about that comes close to Ancient Rome is Yorkshire and the North of England, he says. He was born and raised in Ripon and now lives in a village just north of the city with his wife, two kids and a peculiar dog who seems to think she’s human . He loves to travel and visit historical sites, and is often to be found pottering around the Moors or the Dales in search of what to most people appear to be grassy lumps in the ground, but to me are the stuff of fascination .