I spent the weekend with other people’s stories, editing and trying to work out a running order for the Homespun eBook. It felt nice to sit with them and give them my full attention, which will hopefully prove motivational for getting on with my own stuff.
Continue reading “Of Sheep and Selkies (and NaNoWriMo)”
This week’s weekly photo challenge is to come up with a bunch of photos that say ‘green’. Here are mine.
My Green Gallery includes, in no real order – Graffiti of Ron Weasley on a wall in Ljubljana, gin bottle lamp my sister made, bubbles in Holyrood Park, Peacock in a park in Warsaw, updated rules to a Lord of the Rings drinking game, green books in our flat, a sinister spinning wheel.
If nothing else this exercise has taught me how to make a WordPress gallery, which I’m sure will prove to be a very useful life skill… See other people’s green galleries here.
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As regular readers may be aware, I go on about how editing takes longer than first drafting to the point of being really quite boring. It deserves attention, I trill, it is the most time consuming of all the things if you want to do it justice.
Continue reading “Editing Tales”
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Lately I have been trying to read ALL THE BOOKS. This is impossible, but I am making a better fist of it that I did when I was doing the writing of the 12 books in 12 months. Here are some brief highlights of what I’ve read since the start of October. You should read all of these and tell me what you think.
- The Pirates in an Adventure with Whaling – Gideon Defoe
Made me laugh out loud several times, even better than the first in the series; ham. - Sparks – David Quantick
Tonally a lot like Douglas Adams. Parallel universes. Jolly good fun. - Let’s Pretend This Never Happened – Jenny Lawson
Likely to make you snort-laugh in a most unladylike fashion. A memoir of a perplexing childhood and an account of an interesting adulthood by one of the internet’s best bloggers. Worth a look if you enjoy Caitlin Moran, or if you want to laugh a lot. - Maus – Art Spiegelman
I’m late to the party with Maus, obviously – it’s been on my to-read list for years, but I finally got around to it last month. I can’t add much to what you probably already know – it’s fascinating and horrible and heartbreaking. Read it please. The end. - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
A magical tale built around old sepia photos of freak shows. I worried this might be a little bit cheesy, especially when the American kid went to visit Wales… but it’s actually not. I’m very curious to know what happens next. - The Sisters Brothers – Patrick De Witt
If you’re a horse lover you may wish to look away. An absorbing tale of the Wild West, but not the Will Smith kind. It is a little slow to get started, but once it gets going it is very good.
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A couple of weeks back my friend had all her hair shaved off to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. I reckon her new look fits in with the renewal theme pretty well. Also I think you can still donate if you want…
12 Books in 12 Months 