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Find and replace my boyfriend
When I read this article, it wasn't the content that made me shiver as though I'd ice-cubed my dorsal ridge, but the amendment note:
This article was amended on Sunday 4 December. In the original, "danger" was misspelt as "benger" on two occasions. This has been correctedBy coincidence, I'd been find-and-replacing the names of half the characters ( Read more... ) -
Writing about writing 1
I'm about to print off the first 2/3 of the novel I've been working on. I'm excited! So excited that the urge to CUT CORNERS comes over me ( Read more... ) -
Loaded phrases
There was a joke on The Adam and Jo Show about the film The English Patient. From shonky memory ( Read more... ) -
Creative writing courses/groups?
In the New Year I'd like to add some formality to my creative writing. Has anyone had good experiences with ( Read more... ) -
Tarting up the seasonal home
I have no wintersparkle decorations and I want to make some. I favour biodegradable and/or scrap materials. I'm reasonably handy. Any ideas ( Read more... ) -
Giving the Bones to Someone Who Appreciate Bones
Edited to correct: I NO LONGER have two books by Natalie Goldman (author of Writing Down the Bones) which I don't want: Wild Mind and Thunder and Lightening, both on creative writing. SORRY!
Posted on Dreamwidth also (http://slightlycanted.dreamwidth.org/1481.html, with
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Making bisexuality boring since 1992
It was Bisexual Visibility Day last week, and I posted this, then took it dow, fearing it was a bit rainbow-coloured-wholemeal-snowflake. But people said it wasn't as bad as that, so I'm putting it back up.I'm interested in the way bisexuality gets used a lot as a complicating factor to show when Things are too rigid. It crops up in discussions of ( Read more... ) -
Lots of bands with 'wolf' in the name.
I went to my first festival at the weekend, in a garden built by a Victorian atheist to entice people away from church on a Sunday. He ran free coach trips from nearby towns. They'd deck the woods with Vauxhall lamps, and the writer Thomas Hardy declared it 'Quite the prettiest site I ever saw in my life' (there was a young lady involved, there ( Read more... ) -
Tooled up on Baker Street
On Dr Watson's first adventure with Sherlock Holmes, the laconic consulting detective asks him:
"Have you any arms?"
"I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges."
"You had better clean it and load it..."
A few years later, in The Sign of Four Holmes asks him:
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FAQ
I was having a very pleasant time at BiCon but I was, I think, unusually vague, over-stylised and lapsing into verbal shorthand. Exacerbating that, everyone else looked pretty sleep-deprived ( Read more... )