Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘writing’ Category

Bloody, bloody, bloody.

I am bloody well going to write this bloody novel if it bloody kills me. (I wonder if Neil Gaiman ever says things like this?)

Read Full Post »

Clothing porn!

Let me qualify that title. I like fashion from the 1600-1900s. No, scratch that. I love it. If it has lace, embroidery, seed pearls, silk, taffetta, more lace, gold braid, brodere anglaise or velvet on it, I like it. And if it’s all of those things together and on a man with long King Charles-type [...]

Read Full Post »

“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost Started thinking about poems by Robert Service, which got me onto “poets called Robert” and hence to Robert [...]

Read Full Post »

Another weekend, and another mystery of life to ponder. Why is my default facial expression “haunted”? Why couldn’t it be “mildly bemused”? It would save a lot of good people the trouble of asking “Are you sure you’re all right?” at regular intervals. Of course, I’m rarely entirely all right (is anyone?) but it’s hardly [...]

Read Full Post »

Have had a bit of a nasty cold for a few days, which has induced the usual lethargy, hence I haven’t been around. All right. More lethargic than normal. Nothing to report save I made a few more edits to The Captain’s Husband snippet I’ve been writing, and churned out a few more mindless therapy [...]

Read Full Post »

I confuse myself sometimes. I recently made the discovery that organic food, despite my every wish not to believe the hype, actually does taste better than ordinary food. I am a born-again organic foodie. I sneer upon cheap value bread that probably has more chemicals in it than flour: cheap chickens pumped full of added [...]

Read Full Post »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.