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The writer's life, it ain't for everyone
John Scalzi linked to an interesting article where Steph Swainston (a fantasy author of certain renown) explained her decision to abandon writing and train to be a chemistry teacher instead ( Read more... ) -
Make way for Super Gran
How Joe Konrath Got Published is really quite a lovely tale. The line which sums it all up is: "After ten books, twelve years, and four hundred and sixty rejections, my dream had finally come true." Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The piece appears to only be available in the ebook The Newbies Guide To Publishing (pdf, 6.82MB), ( Read more... ) -
Tangible is only a state of mind
Today's achievements: Wrote a new product page for my website, fiddled about with Wordpress and PHP to get a funky little feature working, wrote seven or eight articles for backlinks ( Read more... ) -
It's a drunken punchup at a wedding, no no no
I just bought a train ticket to Glasgow. It leaves on the 2nd of August (I think...may have been the 1st) and arrives on the 3rd (or maybe 2nd). It's a sleeper train, which will be a new experience for me, and was actually the cheapest ticket I could find ( Read more... ) -
I will eat you alive
There's a Pepsi Max game on Facebook which has a prize of £2,000 each week. To win it you have to answer questions about the people on your friends list, by sliding a can of Pepsi Max across some ice and stopping it in bullseyes (four bullseyes per question, each one representing a different friend ( Read more... ) -
All I need is love, and stimulating conversation
I just woke up from another one of those dreams. The last thing I remember is saying to the woman "Come here, I've got something to tell you...You're extremely beautiful and I love you very much." She looked like a cross between Gwyneth Paltrow and this woman called Marie who used to drink in a pub I worked in. I only chatted to her a couple of ( Read more... ) -
Procrastination kills your dreams
Dave left a great reply to somebody's comment on his blog the other day. It really shows why he's been as successful as he as, and is applicable to anything in life:"The main thing is to stay inspired. Take the post that Lissie wrote for example. You can see by mine and Terry’s replies that we are men of action. I don’t mean that to sound crass but ( Read more... ) -
Aporia
aporia: difficulty determining the truth of an idea due to equally valid arguments for and against it ( Read more... ) -
Nice dream, if you think you belong enough
Just had an interesting dream. I was going out with this gorgeous woman - tall, slim, long blonde hair, a little like Alicia Silverstone - in Florida. I lived in Florida too somehow, but hadn't been there very long at all as America still had its sheen of newness and wonder. She was beautiful, but her top set of teeth were metal due to a weird ( Read more... )