Rambling thoughts
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I’ve just tidied up the books on my to-read bookcase (which overflows on to a second bookcase). I have 229 books to read. At a very generous two books per week that’s going to take me over four years to get through, if I don’t buy another book until it’s done. This morning I was…
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I Write Like is an hilarious widget which analyzes your writing and gives you a comparison to a famous author. I tried it a few times and my results were: paragraphs from a business email – H.P. Lovecraft. I may have to think about how I’m writing to my colleagues! paragraphs from the brand new…
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Phew, it’s been a while. Partly it’s because I’ve been travelling and partly it’s because I’m sick. The travel is a short term thing. I went to Athens on holiday. That was lovely. I really liked Athens and the Acropolis was amazing. Then I ended up in Abu Dhabi because of erupting volcanos. The sick…
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Inspired by Nathan Bransford, who asked the question on his blog. He gets hundreds of comments though and I didn’t feel like getting lost in the cloud. My favourites were:Wuthering Heights by Charlotte BronteThe Dragonlance Chronicles by Tracy Hickman and Margaret WeisJerusalem Fire by R M Meluch I wonder if it’s time for a re-read…
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Finish Sacrifice! Yep, that’s basically it for this year. I want to get Sacrifice into a suitable state for sending to agents and I want to do that by the end of August. I’m going to aim for 2000 words a week and that should get me to 75000 words by the end of March,…
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It’s been just over a year since I started writing this blog so I thought it might be appropriate to do a little reflection. When I started my intentions were several.1. To have a regular writing practice which would provide some much needed discipline and get me in a writing mood.2. To create an online…
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I like horror in general and I like vampire stuff, but no more than any other creature of the night. But now I’m not so sure. My favourite thing in the world is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but that doesn’t automatically translate to a vampire fetish. Not on it’s own. I like Ann Rice and…
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I have a job! Yes, that’s right, job hunting is over and my life can resume. It’s amazing how much time looking for a job takes. I don’t think I’m cut out for short term contract work. I’m looking forward for a couple of years of stability in a permanent job with regular hours. Yay.…
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The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I’ve changed the template for my blog. Being coding challenged means I am limited to the free sample templates provided by Blogger. If only I had the skills to design myself the perfect format… What I was really after was a three column template because I have lots…
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