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About WritersReign

WritersReign is a website dedicated to assisting writers to improve their work and get it published.

Mervyn Love My aim is to provide resources, articles, links and downloads to help the aspiring writer to get on with it and produce something that will prove satisfying and rewarding to both writer and reader. After all, writing should be fun. Hard work, yes, but fun as well. If you don’t get a buzz from your creative output then it really can be the pits. But get those creative juices flowing and the adrenaline pumping and writing can be the best occupation on the planet.

Mervyn Love, Editor

A Brief Biography of Your Editor

Mervyn Love was born a century and a half ago (well, it feels like it sometimes) in the village of Reepham, Lincolnshire, and has never looked back. It is this geographical origin that has led to his sincere conviction, up until quite recently, that the earth really was flat.

Mervyn failed his ‘O’ Level Maths at the age of 30, having been something of a slow learner, and ironically has earned his living by crunching numbers in the finance departments of several companies, including Enron and WorldCom. Which just goes to show that all the sweat and tears gaining ‘A’ Levels in Quantum Physics, Civil Engineering, and Cross-stitch in the 13th Century were a complete waste of time.

Recreations include ropeless abseiling, desert pot-holing, lounging in front of the Telly and tiddly-winks. The latter being a left-over from the time he captained the Frodingham Flyers to victory in the Lincolnshire and South Humberside Tiddly-winks Championships in 1954 against reigning champions the Appleby Aces. The Flyers won by two whizzers and a scrimp in a nail biting final at the Grimsby Fish Gutters Centennial Hall.

His award-winning site for aspiring writers, WritersReign.co.uk (voted Best Cloned Site 2002 in the ‘Web Sites Thrown Together With Little Or No Thought’ category) recently won the "Site Most Likely To Be Ignored In The 21st Century" award, and has received several similar accolades.

His ambition is to one day get out of bed before 11.00am, and beat his wife at Scrabble, but not both on the same day.

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And another thing. Please note that not everything on this page may be strictly true. Just a little exageration here and there you understand, so do have the salt cellar handy.

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And what, some might ask, are you going to do with all these piles of cash? Well, I rather have my heart set on a new car. Not a Ferrari or a Lamborgeeni (in fact I don't even know how to spell it), just a nice new Fiesta for my lady wife as she really deserves it. So far I have amassed the sum of £19 14s 41/2d. Some way to go then.

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