Link round-up
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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 behaviour. It is brilliant and I love it. Go have a read.
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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 few articles lately about how blogging is a distraction activity and is basically giving your work away for free, so it’s nice to read something…
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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 this post about using frustration to ramp up your writing. Shopping stuff I bought some clothes from an online store, Holy Clothing, and they…
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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 or James :-). Space pictureFrom Cassini in the shadow of Saturn. An amazing picture that looks like it’s not real, but it is. Writing stuffThis…
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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 much more than I am happy with and sometimes that’s because I forget that I can’t work all the time. Other times it’s because big projects are…
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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 week and I’m picking this artist’s impression of a wierdly dark planet as my favourite as it reminds me there’s so much we don’t know yet.…
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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 Planet of the Apes Went to see this on Friday and I enjoyed it much more than I expected. The CGI was very well done.…
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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 write, but how long is too long? This article on deciding when to start a new story has some interesting ideas. Space stuff While I…
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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 quality, but instead, the marketability of the product. When I’m thinking about self-publishing, the little voice in my head says ‘but who will tell me…
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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 the DVD coming out. Blogging, writing and selling books This is a thoughtful post from Livia Blackburne on blog writing and selling books and John…
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