So I have been working on my book for the last decade, and you would think that it would feel good to have it almost finished, right? Wrong ( Read more... )

So most of you out there who are interested in creative writing of some variety or other are likely to have been on a creative writing course. I'm interested to know what you found useful about the courses you have attended? What was not so useful, or downright rubbish? What would you like to see covered on a course? What do you, as a writer, wish ( Read more... )

I feel like I am vaguely irritated by everyone and everything that crosses my path today. It is not a good place for me to be.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8420298.Pig___s_head_shock_at_York_pub/?ref=mr

I went to the allotment last night, having been unable to go for several days due to various stuff. Anyway, things are romping along nicely. Here are a list of the beds I have in ( Read more... )

Henry Rollins is playing Edinburgh Fringe again this year. Am so going, so that he can fall in love with me. I'm a reader!

Soooo excited about the possibility of going to see him, could be brilliant!

York just keeps on getting better and better:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8204794.Remains_of_Roman__gladiators_discovered_at_York_burial_site/

Being from Halifax, and a bit into my history and such, I had wondered when a dramatization of Anne Lister's life would come along, and finally it did, last night on BBC 2 ( Read more... )

What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
- Went to Mexico

Are you glad you did it?
- Yes

Would you do it again?
- No

I think that I might really, reeeeeally want to go to Russia this year for my holiday. Or Canada, or Italy, or Spain.

There are too many options and not enough money to pay for it all.

Pants.

Yesterday, whilst in town, I heard the clatter of rapid hoof-steps echoing down the street and looked up to see a beautiful white horse galloping towards us. Luckily we were out of its way and safe, but for a split second, I was back in the 1800s, when things like that must have happened much more frequently. It helped my imagination that I was on ( Read more... )