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May 24, 2009
- Storyhearts Sunday UK Blog - Gomsmacked, Bobbies or an Arm and a Leg For this Sunday I'm going into not one but three saying that are used in every day English.GOBSMACKEDWhat is the meaning of the word "Gobsmacked"?Unlike many of these sayings this caught on in the 1980's it tends to have it's origins in the Liverpool area, where "gob" was a term for mouth. "Shut your ...
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May 12, 2009
- I just got back from my first outing on the golf course for 2009. Although I know many have already hit the links, I hadn't yet had the opportunity to make it out. I even had a new driver, actually a 3-wood, that I received as a Christmas present from my husband, to initiate. It had been sitting there, just begging to be tried out on a course. Suffice it to say, it was glorious out ...
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May 11, 2009
May 4, 2009
- I was in a forum discussion the other day about point of view (POV) in sex scenes. Pat Black, author of Snarl gets the gold star for funniest.POV of the penis: It was dark. It was light. It was dark. It was light. It was over. I hung my head in shame.I just thought that was too damn cute:)
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April 26, 2009
- Following my blog about ‘Being a writer's husband’ I thought that I’d follow it up with a blog about book signings from my perspective, particularly as Gina is five stores into a Waterstone’s Bookseller book signing tour for The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy.First of all I run around like a headless chicken the night before and the morning of the book signing. I iron Gina’s ...
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April 21, 2009
- Music is a big part of the writing process. This is evidenced by the mile long favorite song threads that I find in forums throughout the web wherever writers gather. Personally, I give each character or situation a theme song. I think it makes things more colorful. Each night I go to bed with a different song in my head. If you want to see if you can guess what that song is... I'll ...
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April 18, 2009
- 1. Busy, busy day at work, there was an MS walk downtown, and our Robie Creek marathon was today as well. My brain has pretty much stopped functioning...2. Met some awesome authors at the Children's Literature Festival this weekend. People are so nice. Especially writers. ;-) Also, being around such lovely enthusiastic professionals made me want to finish my WIP even more.3. Blogger's ...
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April 13, 2009
- This morning I got an email with a promise that watching this video would make my day, and it did. Thought I’d share.“For a few moments they didn't have a care in the world, regardless of what may be happening in their lives,” BoAt a German Train Station
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March 25, 2009
- First, good little Red Room blogger that I am, I will tell you that I am continuing to chip away at the block of stone that is my novel, slowly uncovering the book within. The going is slow, because, you know, I gotta keep going to my evening job and so forth. I am currently working on Chapter 28 and am guessing the book will be finished around Chapter 35 or 40 or 45. I'm not sure. Maybe 35 will ...
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March 20, 2009
- Here are some of my favorite "writer" movies...Stranger than Fiction is quirky, funny, and the scene where Dustin Hoffman plays an English professor trying to determine the genre of the novel taking over Harold Crick's life is one of the funniest things I've seen in years. Will Ferrell as you've never seen him and Emma Thompson is classic as the off-balance writer who always kills her ...
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