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As you know I switch quite regularly between different POVs and plotlines, and I make use flashbacks in my novel Blood & Fire. I’ve just started looking at Part Two in my process of revising it, and I have a…
Continue readingTime was when we had a strong cohort of people in our department who would all go to lunch at the same time and fill the big long table in the centre of the atrium (the big long table that…
Continue readingThe subject line says it all. Draft two of chapter six is complete! Yes… 😉
Continue reading1. As long as I breath from the diaphram, and blow the notes confidently, my piccolo playing seems to be coming on quite well, and not too screaching and ear-piercing. That said it’s still loud and high, and really I…
Continue reading1. Another cold, sunny, winter weekend day today. Such a glorious day, a day to go out and be in. 2. Headed into Oxford briefly today to give my discount card a last outing at the bookshop. Dad had a…
Continue reading1. Another cold, sunny, winter weekend day today. Such a glorious day, a day to go out and be in. 2. Headed into Oxford briefly today to give my discount card a last outing at the bookshop. Dad had a…
Continue reading1. And so today, we came to the 4th Annual Playing Day. It’s a strange thing, but this is the third one that we’ve had at the Manor Prep School in Abingdon and on every one of those days it…
Continue readingI got back to my desk after lunch today to discover one missed call. The HR person at OUP had called and wanted to speak to me. I called back, and they would like to interview me for the job…
Continue readingI’ve been getting some good critiques from CritiqueCircle. They are perhaps not coming in as numerously as they do to some people – and I still can’t fathom exactly what it is that leads some stories to get dramatically different…
Continue reading1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue reading1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue readingI’ve joined LibraryThing, and have entered details to most of my children’s novels, and the results are quite interesting (although Enid Blyton seems to feature surprisingly high…) Pam Adams | Richard Adams | Allan Ahlberg | Joan Aiken | David…
Continue readingI’ve joined LibraryThing, and have entered details to most of my children’s novels, and the results are quite interesting (although Enid Blyton seems to feature surprisingly high…) Pam Adams | Richard Adams | Allan Ahlberg | Joan Aiken | David…
Continue readingApparently today is the most depressing day of the year. It’s true that my bank balance is looking a bit dipleeted, but not really any more so than usual at this time in a month. I had a good weekend,…
Continue readingIt was a gloriously sunny, winter morning today – you know, the kind that makes you really feel alive, so I headed out to Stowe Landscape Gardens and my pilgrimage to snowdrops(my favourite flower)… Snowdrops Originally uploaded by shepline on…
Continue readingAfter a pleasant walk in crisp, January air and a winter sun, I headed down into Oxford for some leasurely Sunday afternoon book browsing, and of course had to buy some!! 🙂 Quite a nice deal though, as I still…
Continue readingBlanked out last night. I was in the middle of posting yesterday’s entry when I came over a bit woozy, almost sick-like. I went to the kitchen sink but I needed to sit down, put my head between my knees…
Continue reading1. In preparation for my Wicked theatre trip next month, I watched the remastered version of The Wizard of Oz tonight. I can’t remember when I last saw it but it was once upon a (very, very) long time ago….
Continue readingTook myself off to see Miss Potter the new bio-pic of Beatrix Potter’s life. It’s was good. I really enjoyed it. It’s what I woiuld describe as little film, and a nice film. Beautifully shot of course, and beautiful locations…
Continue reading1. Yes, dear readers Britain has once again been ravaged by storms. And yes it has been very bad in places (did anyone see the footage of that aeroplane trying to take off from Birmingham airport?), but like all of…
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