... Is it me, or is AO3 down?

I make quite certain that many of you, by all accounts, have dreams that evolve into scenes in the stories you write.

But what I’d like to know, if you’ll indulge me, is this, and it’s not quite suited for a poll: Do you awake, even occasionally, let alone regularly, with a word or phrase or line ringing in your mind, or with a particular ( Read more... )

Poll Whose is THE voice of romance?

Am slowly returning to Land of the Living after an appalling fortnight ( Read more... )

(Sorry, couldn’t resist a Vaughan Williams quip.)

On Thursday 18 December, I shall be lunching at the club with that select society dedicated to the great Robin Goodfellow, or Puck: that is to say, it is the annual Christmas luncheon of our little association.  The secretary thereof, the savage Landor, has as always reminded us all that we are free ( Read more... )

Right, then, and these? (Erratum: 'e' key failed in Purefoy, infra)

Poll Doctor will see you now...

Or, perhaps, these Doctors?

Poll Doctor's casebook

I have posted a poll.

It is further to my previous queries.

It will be useful in my next-essay-but-one.

Please participate; and elaborate upon your choices in the comments.
 

What music, if any, do you listen to when writing?

When editing and proof-reading?

Why?
 

Right, then.

I see I have started a hare.

Very well.  Formidably intelligent and informed friends are already disagreeing; let us open the ball.

Please answer based solely on (book-)canon and from a British perspective, please.  Adduce as much proof as you can bear to do.  I shall give my answers in due course.

What class (this is a base-line) ( Read more... )