words ‘n stuff

Book meme

December 17, 2006

Although Wendy didn't tag me, I'm going to do this book meme anyway, because I think it's fun. Grab the book closest to you. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog Name of the book and the author Tag three people Ok… […]

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A hypothetical question

December 3, 2006

If you were to find yourself in a lift with blogger who had, say, been writing for the last… oh, four and a half years, and that blogger said that, despite an underlying feeling that it was in some way cheating, she was considering pulling together some of her best posts and tidying them up […]

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Errors and omissions excepted

April 23, 2006

Due to technical difficulties, such as the shops being shut on Monday morning when T'Other and I had a scrap of time to go shopping for my birthday present, I didn't get my Moleskine until yesterday, but to make up for the delay, T'Other bought me a nice (and reasonably priced) Lamy pen. We can't […]

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Auctorial aspirations

April 13, 2006

So, if you're a long-time reader of this blog, you'll already know about my writerly leanings. You'll have seen me talk about my scriptwriting; you'll have seen me writing about learning languages (still not finished); you'll have heard about my acquiring a literary agent (whom I still have, by the way, and who is still […]

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First draft of chapter complete

September 20, 2005

So, the chapter I'm writing for the Uses of Blogs book is at the red pen stage. First draft finished this evening, and I've started scrawling all over it in, crossing bits, out, adding bits in, wondering what meds I must have been taking when I wrote that particular sentence. It needs a major rewrite […]

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Etech proposals in

September 19, 2005

And before the deadline too. Yay! Also, publisher now preparing contract. Yay! Yay again! (Note: Not out of the woods yet, mind you. It ain't over til the fat lady bogsnorkels.)

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Progress!

September 15, 2005

Got half my chapter written today. 1800 words. Could have been more – I'd been hoping to finish the first draft in one fell swoop – but I was feeling rather ropey this afternoon and found it hard to focus. With any luck, I'll polish off this draft tomorrow and then can let it sit […]

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How long?

September 15, 2005

… does it take to write a book? Hmm. How long is a piece of string? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How many dustbunnies can live underneath a sofa? How many words can I write a day? Except, I won't write 1000 words a day, or even 500 words […]

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Temporarily dropping off the face of the internet

August 31, 2005

I have a publisher interested in my book (fingers crossed), and a possible new client (thumbs held*), and this digital rights organisation is slowly taking shape, and I have a book chapter to finish (note the word 'finish', which accurately implies that I've started it, which I have), and BlogOn to organise, and my move […]

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In which I have to deal with that fan/star thing again

August 26, 2005

Neil Gaiman's coming to the UK. There will be signings. Which means there may well be queueings. And nerves. Maybe vomiting. Hopefully not. I nearly threw up on Martin Carr's feet once, but that was an unfortunate combination of nerves and food poisoning. At least, that's the story I've maintained for the last decade and […]

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Neologisms in the ODE

August 10, 2005

It's always amusing to see which words the Oxford Dictionary of English has chosen to include in its tome each year. This year, though, it's even cooler than usual, because not only have they decided that the word 'podcast' is widely used enough to warrant inclusion, but I also know the person who coined it. […]

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Dr Who is such a tart!

May 30, 2005

Just watched last night's Dr Who and I have to agree with Tom that not only is Dr Who is a bit of a tart, but he's also a bit free and easy with gender/species/group sex distinctions. Good for him, I say. Bit jealous really. I never get to dance, let alone set up an […]

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A link for the scriptwriters amongst you

May 13, 2005

IMSDb – the Internet Movie Script Database. Don't know if I just missed this in my past searches for scripts, or if it's new. Either way, it's got Constantine so I'm happy.

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Whoosh!

April 25, 2005

I love it when deadlines have been successfully met. Or at least, not too badly missed. That's the best bit about writing – sending stuff off into the wild where people will rip it into tiny little shreds and send it back to you in the mail with a ransom note.

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Evil

April 21, 2005

CVs are evil. Biographies more so. Whoever invented them should be taken outside and shot. Or maybe disembowelled. With a blunt spoon. I don't like writing my CV. Can you tell?

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