The Righting the Writing blog
Righting the Writing is a St Albans, Hertfordshire based media training imprint of
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About Ian Cundell
Credentials may not be everything, but the smart want to see them.
Here and now
Find items from my writing portfolio here. If you want to see a genuine curiosity, however, try this. And this is my all time favourite piece by me.
I am co-director of a communications and media relations firm with Kate Allan. Most future work will be handled through the company
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I wasn't always a writer.
Before I started writing for a living - and before the 1990s recession finally caught up with me - I was a property researcher working mainly in the City of London. As well as being a 'proper' job that recession is an experience no-one who lived it will forget.
A hard recession imparts a certain point of view: business - all business - is a profession, not a hobby. You have neither time, nor money, to waste.
Before that I was an academic, specialising in urban and regional planning. The biggest benefit of that period was meeting people who could teach the fundamentals of logic and reason.
I discovered I could write as much by accident as anything. I knew a good journalist who showed me how to get a piece published. The editor liked it, used it and asked me to do some more. That was in late 1994 and everything else developed from there.
For nearly four years I worked for Property Week, which was fun, ending up as assistant editor. Then I became a business writer on The Times, specialising in its small business coverage (although when the news editor tells you that $1bn companies are 10 a penny, you do get a new sense of perspective).
Then I decided it was time to be my own boss.
Also here is a piece I wrote during what might euphemistically called the Mark One Freelance Years on what it feels like to be made redundant. This is the only place it has been published. Choosing to go your own route is very different.