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| Damn, I lost all my streaks after a few busy IRL days (going into the office, and also dealing with the toilet seat breaking *rofl* I'm going into London today, though, and time on trains has given me time to catch up, and I even wrote a bit of flash fiction on my first train inspired by a picture I snapped last week, which turned out unexpectedly maudlin... I did enjoy not knowing where that piece was going to go, though! |
 A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "My job is to write a book increasingly less badly over time." - Mohsin Hamid *** I relate to this one, hard! |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book Fell into a nice mini rabbit hole this morning - I wanted a synonym for ad-hoc (because it's dreadfully formal and old-fashioned in my opinion, although in quite regular use at my place of work which shows you how old-fashioned it is...) and although I didn't use it, jury-rigged also came up as another term in the same area - so I read a bit about how that is a naval term for fixing up boats with only the materials you have on board. The "similar terms" section was also interesting and led me to find out that bodging is a) British slang - friends from other countries, have you heard of it???? and b) Originally from woodturning, when "chair-bodgering" was to use green unseasoned wood to make chair legs and similar. Oh, and the similar German term is apparently Trick 17 which sounds really cool to me but I don't quite understand how it's used or where it comes from! |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "To write good description, therefore, you have to love the world, to gaze at it as at a lover's face, forgetful of yourself immersed." - Adam Foulds, after T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" *** I'm gradually reading through a Guardian "masterclass" on writing a novel which I printed out years ago - there are a lot of good nuggets in there! |
Thank you for the reviews, notes and emails about my WDC anniversary - you truly are a lovely bunch  Hopefully I'll stick around for the next 14 years! |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "No-one writes for long without understanding that they are entering mystery and will never leave it." - Andrew Miller *** Do you agree  ? |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "Is the prose alive or dead? That's all you need to carry on." - Jill Dawson *** This gave me a little bump of encouragement when I started diving back into editing and was getting stressed and indecisive about some small word choices. I think my prose is alive, so I'm good in the wider scheme of things  |
Hmm, I spent about an hour drafting reviews yesterday and I managed to complete ... about one and a half. At that rate, I'd need to dedicate around five or six hours a week to writing seven reviews to maintain that reviewing streak - at least, if I write my reviews the way I want to write them!  I don't have that spare time... so I think it'll just be sporadic ones from me from now on (plus a dump of ones sitting in my backlog today). Oh, also, I had a couple of links to reviewing groups/iniatives I'd saved a while ago, and when I came to post them, they'd disappeared, so TBH I think it's easier just to stick to whatever I happen to get out of the old auto-reward system |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "That's what interests me about the Doctor because, actually, look at the blood on the man's hands... Which is why I think he has to make silly jokes and wear a fez. Because if he didn't, who knows what he'd do." *** My continuing series of quotes about Doctor Who & the actors who have played them! |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "I love this part, and I love this show so much that if I don't take a deep breath and move on now I never will, and you'll be wheeling me out of the TARDIS in my bath chair." - David Tennant *** My continuing series of quotes about Doctor Who & the actors who have played them! |
I wanna see your commonplace book. I'm kinda like a notebook nerd. Don't email me. I'm too busy to clear my full inbox.  Not yet at least. |
Elycia Lee ☮ Friday 13  - I went through all my old schoolwork recently so at the moment I'm just using up all of those ones. It's not pretty, but it works for me |
citruspocket  - I so want to start one, but I am so busy working. When I am not, I am busy recovering from it. |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "There were two reasons to do it: Russell [T. Davies, the head writer] and the gamble. And I like a gamble." - Christopher Eccleston, on why he decided to take on the part of the Doctor in Doctor Who. *** A short series of quotes from a few different actors who have played this role - it's interesting to see how different people approach playing this iconic mainstay of British television! |
| A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." *** Spotted at an archaeological site; I looked it up afterwards and found it was a quote from Winston Churchill about the rebuilding of the House of Commons after the Second World War - quite a nice coincidence for me as I work a lot in Westminster! |
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I definitely haven't been active for fourteen years, but the passing of time is still shocking...
I love words and everything about them, and I love learning new ones and discovering their origins.