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Damn, had a busy weekend and I didn't have time to do my weekly timeslot for reviewing here - and I found I really missed it!  |
Fridays are my days off novel editing and a chance to flick through my other WIPs, do a bit of light revision, or perhaps even find something that sparks off something new! Anyway, the result today is this very short comedic piece -
Reviews welcome, if you're in that sort of mood. |
 A continuing series of extracts from my commonplace book *** Onslaught Camel Blenheim Tartan Wolf Thunderbolt Blackcat Doom Cobra *** Can anyone guess which category of things I saw quite unexpectedly at lunchtime the other day? |
| 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 |
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Happy Account Anniversary 
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.