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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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Chapter 33 – Tyrion Tyrion and Jorah Mormont have left Volantis, ostensibly bound for Qarth, but really going to Meereen. Penny, the jousting dwarf girl, is also on board. Tyrion tries to be nice to her but she hates him. Moqorro is a red priest sent to bring the light of Rh’llor to Daenerys. The ship…
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I picked up Irons in the Fire by Juliet E. McKenna at Alt.com a couple of years ago. Juliet McKenna does quite a few writing conferences and I’d heard a lot of what she has to say about writing and the writing life. I thought I ought to read one of her books. McKenna is…
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Chapter 32 – Reek Ramsay Bolton is staying at Barrowton. He’s been looking for someone he didn’t find. Usually this would mean that he’d want to hurt someone but he has to be careful around his father’s allies. Ramsay orders a feast and has Reek stand in the corner while they eat. All Ramsay’s dogs…
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I always wanted to have a proper library: a whole room in the house dedicated to books and reading. All the walls would be fully shelved and there would be one of those ladder things that wheels around the shelves. It would have a chaise longue or day bed for reading in the most comfort. There…
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Chapter 31 – Melisandre It is never dark in her chambers and the fire must never go out. Melisandre looks into the fire and prays for a vision. She is looking for Stannis and for the girl on a dying horse. She sees a white wood face and a boy with a wolf’s face, memories…
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Chapter 30 – Daenerys Skahaz mo Kandaq has been following Hizdahr zo Loraq who has been visiting the nobles of Meereen and the murders have stopped for three weeks. Grey Worm comes to tell her that a rider has come from Astapor, which has been destroyed. He had the bloody flux. He says the rider…
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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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Chapter 29 – Davos Davos has spent two weeks as a prisoner waiting to be killed, but he is being treated pretty well. He writes letters to his wife and sons. Then Robett Glover arrived and asks Davos to come with him. He tells Davos that Stannis has taken Deepwood Motte, that Roose Bolton has…
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Chapter 28 – Jon Jon is sending out rangers and includes Alliser Thorne in the group. Thorne thinks that Jon’s looking for an excuse to kill him, but it has more to do with his lack of experienced men. Jon missing sparring so he challenges some trainees and is obviously miles better than them. Then…
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