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  • ‘No sex please, we’re British’

    ‘No sex please, we’re British’

    Originally posted on An author's Life: Why didn’t I write a book years ago? My foray into the literary world is bringing me new experience after new experience. I am learning so much, and from so many people. As we get closer to the publication of Six Months to Get a Life, this week…

  • 5 Tricks to Keep a Modern Reader Interested

    5 Tricks to Keep a Modern Reader Interested

    Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work: I can’t count the amount of indie books I’ve started but haven’t finished.  I read everything on Kindle now save a few of my favorites like those in my Tolkien collection (I have all hard-bound editions of those).  If I want to figure out whether I want to…

  • Surrender to the Words

    Surrender to the Words

    Cynthia Harrison Shame. Dammit. There it is again. I feel it burning in my chest. Surrender, don’t suppress. Sure enough it dissipates, even sooner than I’d thought possible. I’ve been surrendering to my uncomfortable and negative feelings for months now, simply sitting with the pain as it moves through me. When I first began doing…

  • Beauty

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: If beauty lies only In the eye of the beholder… Why is there fragrance In the heart of the rose? ? ? ?

  • Locked in

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Image: Golden Cage by Der Cooky I had not been to the cinema in decades really, until Peter Jackson came along with Lord of the Rings. The TV remote was, for a long time, in hands other than mine. Consequently I have missed a lot. My cinematic…

  • Notes from a small dog (LII)

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: What I want to know is, can I get a refund? Or an exchange her for a better model? Or maybe complain… Frankly, I’m disappointed in her. I mean, okay, she shares some stuff… cheese and custard and ice cream and things. And that’s all very well.…

  • Moving from First Draft to Second and Subsequent Drafts

    Originally posted on disappearinginplainsight: ? Oh the joy of rewrites – there should be a book by that title that could be stored right up on the shelf beside The Joy of Cooking. Most writers probably don’t see the process through that happy, happy lens, so I’m betting the book would get our attention. ?…

  • Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Pere Lachaise Cemetary, Paris. Image: Tawnywolf 57, deviantart Liberty. Equality. Fraternity. This is the motto of the French Republic, a nation reeling from the effects of an attack on these very values. The satirists of Charlie Hebdo, by the very nature of their work, may well have…

  • Honour & Obey … the brilliant new novel from Carol Hedges…

    Right from the first page, Carol Hedges paints a vivid picture of parts of a Victorian London that most people would never have seen. If they were lucky, that is. You can almost smell the squalor and poverty oozing from the pages. I thoroughly enjoyed Honour & Obey, with its tightly woven story of the…

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  • Squeals on wheels

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Image source: http://imgur.com Finally!!! I’m mobile again. You really don’t know how much you rely on the car till you don’t have one. Living in the city years ago it was no problem; public transport filled the gaps, and made having a car not only largely unnecessary…

  • ‘No sex please, we’re British’

    ‘No sex please, we’re British’

    Originally posted on An author's Life: Why didn’t I write a book years ago? My foray into the literary world is bringing me new experience after new experience. I am learning so much, and from so many people. As we get closer to the publication of Six Months to Get a Life, this week…

  • 5 Tricks to Keep a Modern Reader Interested

    5 Tricks to Keep a Modern Reader Interested

    Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work: I can’t count the amount of indie books I’ve started but haven’t finished.  I read everything on Kindle now save a few of my favorites like those in my Tolkien collection (I have all hard-bound editions of those).  If I want to figure out whether I want to…

  • Surrender to the Words

    Surrender to the Words

    Cynthia Harrison Shame. Dammit. There it is again. I feel it burning in my chest. Surrender, don’t suppress. Sure enough it dissipates, even sooner than I’d thought possible. I’ve been surrendering to my uncomfortable and negative feelings for months now, simply sitting with the pain as it moves through me. When I first began doing…

  • Beauty

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: If beauty lies only In the eye of the beholder… Why is there fragrance In the heart of the rose? ? ? ?

  • Locked in

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Image: Golden Cage by Der Cooky I had not been to the cinema in decades really, until Peter Jackson came along with Lord of the Rings. The TV remote was, for a long time, in hands other than mine. Consequently I have missed a lot. My cinematic…

  • Notes from a small dog (LII)

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: What I want to know is, can I get a refund? Or an exchange her for a better model? Or maybe complain… Frankly, I’m disappointed in her. I mean, okay, she shares some stuff… cheese and custard and ice cream and things. And that’s all very well.…

  • Moving from First Draft to Second and Subsequent Drafts

    Originally posted on disappearinginplainsight: ? Oh the joy of rewrites – there should be a book by that title that could be stored right up on the shelf beside The Joy of Cooking. Most writers probably don’t see the process through that happy, happy lens, so I’m betting the book would get our attention. ?…

  • Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Pere Lachaise Cemetary, Paris. Image: Tawnywolf 57, deviantart Liberty. Equality. Fraternity. This is the motto of the French Republic, a nation reeling from the effects of an attack on these very values. The satirists of Charlie Hebdo, by the very nature of their work, may well have…

  • Honour & Obey … the brilliant new novel from Carol Hedges…

    Right from the first page, Carol Hedges paints a vivid picture of parts of a Victorian London that most people would never have seen. If they were lucky, that is. You can almost smell the squalor and poverty oozing from the pages. I thoroughly enjoyed Honour & Obey, with its tightly woven story of the…

    , , ,

  • Squeals on wheels

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Image source: http://imgur.com Finally!!! I’m mobile again. You really don’t know how much you rely on the car till you don’t have one. Living in the city years ago it was no problem; public transport filled the gaps, and made having a car not only largely unnecessary…