Captain Awkward is a an advice blog helping people find the words to have difficult conversations. It has a zero-tolerance policy towards accepting or excusing abuse, micro-aggressions, and generally creepy…
Politics stuffFrom Men’s Rights Activist Marmoset comes the equally clever and funny Internalized Misogyny Aardvark. Brilliant. Writing stuff Five reasons why blogging makes you a better writer. I’ve read a…
Politics stuffThe entirely hilarious Men’s Rights Activist Marmoset. These are a couple of my favourites: Writing stuff The Bookshelf Muse is full of helpful and informative stuff. This week I particularly enjoyed…
Dancing stuffStrictly Come Dancing is back. Whoop whoop! I love Strictly. And while I don’t really know who half the celebrities are, I’ll be supporting whoever is partnered with Artem…
Writing and procrastination The whole You are not so Smart blog is fascinating, but what really resonated with me this week were a couple of posts on procrastination. I procrastinate…
The origin of words The Inky Fool, a blog about words, phrases, grammar and other good stuff. Totally charming. The obligatory space-y picture Lots of beautiful pictures on APOD this…
Astronomy picture of the day Lots to choose from this week, so I’ve picked two: this summer triangle over Catalonia and this castle and meteor by moonlight. Rise of the…
Social media explained Writing stuff There is a tension between being persistent with a project and knowing when is the right time to give up. Novels take a long time to…
Writing stuff This article is about judging the quality of your writing. It makes an interesting point about how agents and publishers are not in the business of judging writing…
Clips from HBO’s Game of Thrones set to Johnny Cash ‘God’s gonna cut you down’. It’s brilliant. I haven’t seen the TV series yet and I’m really looking forward to…
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