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Jimmy Thomson

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in Dumfries, The United Kingdom

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Crime, Humor and Comedy, Nonfiction

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jimmy Thomson Never really suffered it but when I get wheelspin in a story, I just go and write something completely different and then come back to it. Robert McKe…moreNever really suffered it but when I get wheelspin in a story, I just go and write something completely different and then come back to it. Robert McKee, the author of the screenwriting bible 'Story', recommends consciously thinking about the issue that is blocking you before you go to sleep. Often, the first thought you have the next day will be the answer to your problem. Gym and cycling also help to work out tangled storylines.(less)

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Jimmy Thomson It's the closest you will ever be to playing God. All those arguments you lost because you didn't think of the killer witty line, now you can replay t…moreIt's the closest you will ever be to playing God. All those arguments you lost because you didn't think of the killer witty line, now you can replay them and win. All the people who have ever done you any harm, you can make their fictional lives Hell even if you can't touch them in the real world. And you get to work in your pyjamas. (less)

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Average rating: 3.67 · 343 ratings · 25 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tunnel Rats 3.85 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perfect Criminals 3.17 avg rating — 52 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror: How Our Sappers in Afghanistan Took the Fight to the Insurgents Using the Lessons Learned From Vietnam by Jimmy Thomson (Goodreads Author), Sandy MacGregor 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sappers' War: How the legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats fought the Vietcong by Jimmy Thomson (Goodreads Author), Sandy MacGregor 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tunnel Vision 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snitch: Crooked Cops and Kings Cross Crims by the Man Who Saw It All 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Anzacs: The incredible untold stories of Aussie and Kiwi combat engineers in WWI by Jimmy Thomson (Goodreads Author), George Hulse 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Koala Bounces Back by Jimmy Thomson (Goodreads Author), Eric Lobbecke 2.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“This was a pattern America would repeat throughout Latin America where any government, no matter how corrupt, brutal or oppressive, was supported in preference to popular socialism.”
― Jimmy Thomson, Tunnel Rats: The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon

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