June 2012
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WatchEveryday by Saltpeter
A little slice of laid-back loveliness. Makes my heart smile.
Patience is an old cottage crumbling
I’m not afraid anymore. This is my home now. I’ve seen the sun dapple golden through the rotting roof onto the leaves below. I’ve watched the roots strangle the last of the walls. The seasons change and I watch them unaffected. It’s only nature. The wind howls, the rains fall, sometimes there is snow - shimmering pretty in the moonlight, a white lullaby shushing...
May 2012
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Five Sentence Fiction: Silence
Driving home from church that Sunday, packed into the car like only a family of seven can be. Even with the aircon on, the heat singes my shoulder jammed up against the window.
Daddy’s having a go at Kemi again, while she sits stony faced, body drumskin tense: “You’re no child of mine why can’t you just be like everyone else what have I done deserve such a useless child...
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10 Ways To Lose Love
[I wrote this in November last year and I actually still love it, so I thought I’d share. I really want to make something more of it, maybe an animation or get it illustrated or both. My friend Graeme did do this one illustration for me, which I think is awesome. Maybe he’ll get round to doing the rest eventually.]
1. On a night out with the girls, you absentmindedly leave it by the...
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“We should care more about our craft because we’re granted an opportunity to...”
– Frank Chimero - The Particle http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/2011/the-particle/
April 2012
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So, October last year I did a reading at the...
Cinderella’s Stepmother
You must not believe all the tales they tell, those Brothers Grimm. For in the end, they are nothing but peddlers of second hand tales to frighten small children into docility.
No, if you want the truth, I can tell it. Afterall, I am Cinderella’s stepmother.
Cinderella’s father was not the sort of man to be long without a wife. He was fine and strong, and had wealth enough, but...
September 2011
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Today I'm playing follow my muse
So far my muse wants me to buy eggs, so can make a lemon drizzle cake and embroidery thread.
I remind my muse that this is a writing day, that I have deadlines and stories to tell.
My muse says, just go along with it, you’ve got plenty of time. Besides, this’ll be fun.
So I’m following my muse. At the very least, there’ll be cake.
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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement....”
– Mary Oliver, from “When Death Comes” (via Rachel Mennies)
February 2011
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A story for Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day! Me and Valentine’s Day ( I could say “Valentine’s Day and I” but that just sounds so ridiculously formal, and well, now I’ve established that I know the correct grammar, I feel that I can break the rule with impunity)… So, where was I? Ah yes - me. Valentine’s day. We don’t really get on. Not because we hate each other or...
May 2010
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April 2010
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Humid with the possibility of some reading
Not a bad day today. Made epic bike journeys from South London to East London to North London to West London and back to South London. Weather wasn’t sunny but warmish and humid. Scored half price copies of The Boys by Garth Ennis Volumes 1-4 and Transmetropolitan - Lonely City by Warren Ellis, £36 well spent.
I am heavy into graphic novels/comics/whatever you want to call them but at...
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happyharryhardon replied to your post: happyharryhardon replied to your post: Poetry…
And nice you can take comments. Too many writers are so damn defensive of their work and just don’t want to listen. Ever go to Zoetrope? Or did I ask you that already?
I can take crit from people who give useful and thoughtful crit. Sometimes I listen, sometimes I don’t. :)
Can’t say that...
fionchadd asked: re: winnie the pooh - really? it comes up for me! did you scroll down the page? The story starts a little way down...
happyharryhardon replied to your post: Poetry interrupted. How about a story instead?
Nits: Even though protag is 12 I still might avoid using misspellings like ‘cos’ unless you go all out. Didn’t think you need to mention her age twice. I’m guessing all the ‘anyways’ are on purpose, but they are a bit distracting. Solid start :]
Thanks HHH!
Was just “stream of conciousness-ing”...
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Poetry interrupted. How about a story instead?
So I’m a little behind on the poems. Nothing’s coming at the moment. I think I’ve just hit the wall, so I’m going to just leave my brain to stew for a few days and then catch up. In the meantime, I was working on this just before I started the NaPoWriMo challenge. Just an exercise trying to to tell a story from a teenage character/voice perspective.
MILF
So Dad...
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KFC presents... Death Soup
This is a facebook discussion that I’ve been having with a friend on the KFC “chickwich”. I think we all know that this is the next step in the colonel’s journey towards world annihilation.
themarriageofadeadblogsing:
fuckyeahmashups:
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courtesyof-luke asked: this isn't a question, but i just want to say that i think your writing is really beautiful!
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On happiness
Life is hard. There is all manner of crazy and fucked up and sad as infinite as grains of sand, each grain unique with it’s own brand of pain. We all suffer. It’s mankind’s default position. It’s easy. Being happy, on the other hand, that takes hard work and that’s why I need to say this: Work hard at being happy. It is your right but you have to take it. Work at it...
Absolutely! And then there are those songs that give you the tingles and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. It’s like a tiny blast of nuclear energy right into the core of your soul. Music is a powerful thing.
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The Tumblrgods have spoken
Earlier themarriageofadeadblogsing said:
Ok, I know it’s like super cool and trendy to rag on tumblr, but just do me a favour right now. Look to your right. What’s in the radar section? I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s probably;
An amusing photo
A link to a news report
Now think back over all the radar posts you’ve ever seen. Do you remember any with actual content? Have you ever...
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My inner geek just squee-ed itself →
The A-Z of awesomeness.
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Online jobsearch: Fail
Sorry to inform you that your application will not been taken further at this time but… we will keep you CV in our files, should any other suitable position become available.
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Online dating: Fail
I just think we should chat with other people but… we can still be Facebook friends.
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On love
I’ve been thinking about love for a long time now, trying to figure out what it all means, to me personally and in a wider context and have been thinking about posting my thoughts about it but everything just kept getting jumbled in my head. Trying to convey what you know about anything is hard. But what you know about love? Well, what does anyone know?
Anyway, today I tried to write down...
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NaPoWriMo Facebook Group →
Here’s a link to the open Facebook group for anyone who’s interested in taking the challenge.
gracefaithforeign2-deactivated2 asked: I Also want to do the challenge..started posting on my blog bygraceandfaith. But how to join the 30 day challenge on Facebook?
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There is so much hail outside
It might as well be snowing. It’s Spring! Somebody did not get the memo.
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An example of eyes bigger than belly syndrome
I can only eat one sausage sandwich. It has been ever thus. I know this. My belly knows this. I made two sausage sandwiches anyway. Just. In. Case.
Guess what happened? Yeah…
Anyone fancy a spare sausage sandwich?