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Life with Tony - the alarm
Tony is extremely considerate. So, knowing he was to rise early this morning, he warned me he had set his alarm, but would try to ensure it did not wake me ( Read more... ) -
Writing villains
A reader in the US, who has only read the first three books, commented to me that the third book is his favourite. Of course, I asked him why ( Read more... ) -
Online application screw-up
For the first time in a couple of years, my Department is about to offer training places and promotion boards for people of my grade. Given I've been waiting for 2 years, I shall try both routes. Only problem is...I can't complete the online process for the training places. :(
I know I didn't try last weekend, because I got distracted doing ( Read more... ) -
Fifth book
Yay! As a result of three weeks off work being ill, plus some hard application over the last few days, I have managed to get the fifth book out and revamped some of the website pages.
The tidying up of the design of the other book pages will now have to wait while I visit a couple of places in Scotland and Northern Ireland. :D -
the tedium of editing
There are any number of publishers out there - both on demand and traditional - who will publish books without properly editing them. Oh, the product may look glossy, but it’s easy to tell when something hasn’t been properly edited:
- spelling and syntactical mistakes (OK, so that’s the easiest)
- inconsistency of the spelling of names. ( Read more... ) -
a new floor!
Sometime last year I started having breathing problems in the bedroom. So did Tony. Other places I slept in were fine - just our bedroom. Huh ( Read more... ) -
feelin' good
Despite the frozen wastes of black ice, I'm feeling good as I've accomplished a number of major tasks ( Read more... ) -
Cliques
Have you noticed that there are some words you use, and some you don't? If so, why don't you use some words in common circulation? have you ever thought about it ( Read more... ) -
Thieving writers
One of the things said of all writers is that we're thieves. We unashamedly write our own experiences into books, but also experiences of others, that we've been party to or told about. We also write in people we know.
Oh, not recognisably. or not completely recognisably, perhaps. And not necessarily as they are. but they're there.
In my first book ( Read more... ) -
Shrinking Windows C Drive
I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1545. Nice machine. 4 Gb RAM; 500 Gb SATA HDD; webcam blah blah blah. I thought I'd finally experiment with Linux. I explored the distros, using www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ which has a handy tool to enable me to choose which might be the best. I settled for Mint, and am extremely pleased with it. Partitioned the ( Read more... )