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Wondering Mind: February 2009
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. Emotional Topography - Part 3. So, finally, lets have a look at version 12 (I kid you not - and this is just for 2009) of my opening chapter to my final project. In the light of Wolf Brother and Invisible City, I imagine that my chapter is going to rush sloth like from branch to branch, stopping to admire fruit here and there. Curse of the Library - Page 1. Confusion, overridden by. Uneasiness but inner defiance. Curse of the Library - Page 2. Anxious and rationalised will.
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Wondering Mind: July 2009
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Monday, July 13, 2009. Heed in a Box. I hunch over the keyboard, trying to discern the keys in the darkness. Not because there's no longer enough money to pay for electricity, but because I can't be bothered to turn the light on. The same lack of discipline has kept me from the manuscript this evening. Been watching Se7en, that wonderously dark film with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. ooh, ooh, ooh, and Kevin Spacey (but don't tell anyone, it's a secret). Which in turn leads me to pondering the difficulty...
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Wondering Mind: Did you know? The hidden story of words... 2 - Awful
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Friday, November 25, 2011. The hidden story of words. 2 - Awful. And here is another word, "Awful":. Contemporary usage of “awful” only has its origins some 200 years ago, in a slang form of finding both concrete and conceptual objects or persons monstrous or bad; be it the state of a nation [1]. Or the dramatising of an adjective, as per the letters of Keats [2]. Colloquialised versions of the adverb followed shortly after, from Twain [3]. And scenes that inspire dread, such as plagues [8]. But other wr...
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Wondering Mind: July 2008
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Friday, July 18, 2008. I know, I know! I haven't been round much - certainly failed on the 30 posts in a month front. Well aside from all the uni work I've been doing, I actually have work work to do - and that's a bad thing, because it prevents me from writing. Sigh! We may all be waiting on Dark Knight's release (got my tickets. Got yours? But here's one I'm desperate to see:. Finally it's online - to see a perfect quality version of the March 2009 Comicbook movie trailer, go to Empireonline. The air w...
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Wondering Mind: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011. The end began with a whimper, where the Sun had always been at its most fervent: Rome, and in all the cities, regions, and countries clinging to the equatorial line. By the time Alfredo Giancarlo was born, the end was unalterably established and advancing without much fanfare. It's a good time of year when you are told that a piece of your writing has been accepted into an anthology of work - finally. Phew! I hear you say. "And? Well, I'm in it. Naturally! Links to this post.
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Wondering Mind: August 2008
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Monday, August 18, 2008. So, yes indeed, we had the best seats in the house for Hamlet and weren't we glad for that! We were aptly placed to observe Russell T. Davies down in the stalls and to avoid the carelessly thrown objects that flew from the stage into the audience. Such as Patrick Stewart's dart-like pen that shot out of his discarded jacket and thwacked against a wall. And, Mr Tennant's own fumbling with a footstool that slid into the face of a first row patron (lucky he caught it). I have too...
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Wondering Mind: May 2008
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Fancy your chances much? The Bridport Prize has been running now for 30 years, with many thousands of entrants and two competitions open every year - the poetry and the short story prizes. Obviously, I'm not one for the poetry. I'd be worse than old McGonagall. So, this year, for the first time in my amateur writing career (career? I've entered two short stories - both of which I had critiqued and used on my NAW writing course last year. The second piece required far less work....
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Wondering Mind: June 2010
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Bracknell Libraries - Top 25 Fiction. By James Patterson [ Search Catalogue. Buy from: [ Amazon. By Sophie Kinsella [ Search Catalogue. Buy from: [ Amazon. By Peter James [ Search Catalogue. Buy from: [ Amazon. By Fay Weldon [ Search Catalogue. Buy from: [ Amazon. By John Grisham [ Search Catalogue. Buy from: [ Amazon. By Jonathan Kellerman [ Search Catalogue. Buy from: [ Amazon. The truth about Melody Browne. By Lisa Jewell [ Search Catalogue. Buy from: [ Amazon. Are you afraid...
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Wondering Mind: May 2009
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009. The Future. Much Like the Past. Largely in response to Solvey's latest post. I'm in a completely different boat with regard to my novel writing (when I get time to do any) - I'm writing at the moment, just to get words on the page - the framework, so to speak. MG and Solvey have spoken of being involved in the writing. emotionally. Feeling what their characters feel, the sadness of loss, the trauma. and I've got to admit that I'm not feeling any of it. We had a pep talk about my ...
