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• Nights draw in

  November 12, 2009

  • Nothing says the beginning of Winter like putting the clocks back. All of a sudden, we're plunged into darkness, getting ready for work before the sun rises and coming home after it's set. Spend your day in an environment where there isn't much light - a wrong-facing office, say, or an internal ward without windows - and going to work in November starts to resemble the existence of a pit ...
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• A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but cafes are a girl's best friend....

  November 1, 2009

  • Last weekend saw me tagging along behind Ricky on a trip to the South coast. I had a couple of free days, and he had some photographs to take. Although entreated to stand around holding a flash, or to stop passers-by from walking in front of the camera, I demurred. "You want me to take two whole days away from the Big Secret Project?" I shouted. "And get stuck in the middle of ...
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• I'm editing my book!

  October 13, 2009

  • Another month, another round of unsuccessful submissions. (I'm up to two rejections and a deafening silence so far, readers). I'm playing "Writers & Artists' Yearbook Bingo". If you submit your baby to every single address in this book, and get rejected by every single publisher and agent listed, you shout "bingo!" and stand up, waving your copy of the W&A around with ...
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• Hands up if you feel ugly

  September 21, 2009

  • I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that most of us feel ugly at least at some point in our lives. (I'll go further still, and say that if you've never felt ugly, there's probably something the matter with you). And although I've no stats or evidence to back me up, I think it's more common in women than in men.We're constantly surrounded by images of women - in advertising, on TV, in ...
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• Writer's foibles

  September 2, 2009

  • I ought to be working, and so... I bring you this blog entry, not on the theme of procrastination (which I believe has already been quite comprehensively covered both by myself and other bloggers), but on writer's foibles and obsessions.As a breed, writers are generally accepted to be a neurotic, eccentric bunch. For one thing, a person has to be a bit screwy to want to spend hours of their time ...
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