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September 2003

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Author meme

Taken from cogenthought: Take these 10 authors, and remove the ones not on your bookshelf, and add ones that are. Keep the list at 10. Her list Joyce Carol Oates John Updike Philip K. Dick Ivan Turgenev Dave Eggers Marcel…

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Plotlines

I’m looking at the beginnings of chapter two, like I originally wrote it – most of it is good stuff but I’m still not sure where I’m going … then… Helen is with Ben and Hanna in the roadside cafe….

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Plotlines

I’m looking at the beginnings of chapter two, like I originally wrote it – most of it is good stuff but I’m still not sure where I’m going … then… Helen is with Ben and Hanna in the roadside cafe….

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Note to Self: Oxfordwriters?

This post has stemmed from an IM conversation with rachel2205, and a discussion we were having about Yorkwriters and writers’ groups in general. They can be good fun. I remember from when I was at uni, but I need to…

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Visions

On my way into work through the country lanes of Oxfordshire this morning I saw a motorcyclist coming in the opposite direction. Nothing strange about that, you might think. Except that for a moment there I didn’t see a motorcyclist……

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Spitting is a disgusting habit

Between helping lekythen out with her website and coaxing a dying computer back to life after a system crash, I did get many many pages done to my novel last night. I’m now within spitting distance of the end of…

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Spitting is a disgusting habit

Between helping lekythen out with her website and coaxing a dying computer back to life after a system crash, I did get many many pages done to my novel last night. I’m now within spitting distance of the end of…

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Is this good?

shepline’s Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9 Average number of words per sentence: 20.57 Average number of syllables per word: 1.44 Total words in sample: 1440 Analyze your journal! Username: Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern

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Two drafts connect

48 pages down, and version two of Blood & Fire has connected again with version 1 for the last run up to Helen being found. The Helen bits of the story from now on will be changing – because she’s…

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Two drafts connect

48 pages down, and version two of Blood & Fire has connected again with version 1 for the last run up to Helen being found. The Helen bits of the story from now on will be changing – because she’s…

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New Image Gallery (now availble)

With code thanks to tinyjo (available here), and a bit of manual tweeking on my part to set the layout style and fiddle with a few login bugs, the database driven image gallery is now working and available for viewing…

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The end of the beginning?

I’m enjoying being back in the driving seat of creativity. I’ve been working through where I’m at in Blood & Fire and remembering what sorrowthorn and myself talked about at the weekend. It’s been useful. I know where I’m up…

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The end of the beginning?

I’m enjoying being back in the driving seat of creativity. I’ve been working through where I’m at in Blood & Fire and remembering what sorrowthorn and myself talked about at the weekend. It’s been useful. I know where I’m up…

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