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sarah bradley Contemporary fiction, opinion, and writer on women's mental health

sarah bradley
sarah bradley
Member since: Jun, 2009
Last login: 02/05/2010
Last update : 02/04/2010
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About Me

  • Bradley lives in West Yorkshire. She writes contemporary fiction and enjoys gardening, watching Woody Allen movies, and playing with the cat. 

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  • Favourite Lyricists #2: Craig Finn, The Hold Steady

    February 4, 2010

    • Last month I wrote about one of my all-time favourite lyricists, Elvis Costello, and this month I want to tell you all about one of my newer favourites, Craig Finn from The Hold Steady. For those of you who don't know, The Hold Steady are a Americana-flavoured ROCK band from the American Midwest. Although often compared with Bruce Springsteen, they are so much more than your average all-American ...
  • I Don't Hate You, It's Just That I'm Writing A Novel

    January 24, 2010

    • Writers notoriously have a reputation for eccentricity and bizarre, anti-social behaviour. The late Harold Pinter was notoriously bad-tempered, and how many of us, whose hours are spent in quiet darkened rooms inventing imaginary people, imaginary places, can honestly say we feel completely comfortable when required to socialise with actual people? When I'm dragged out, against my will, of a ...
  • Favourite Lyricists #1: Elvis Costello

    January 17, 2010

    • A friend who is a primary school teacher told me a tale about choosing music for a school assembly. At the time, he had a student teacher working alongside him in the classroom. The student was young, on her placement, and hadn't much experience working in schools yet. To give her a bit more confidence, and as an easy task to get her into the swing of work, he suggested that she might like to ...
  • Baby, it's cold outside...

    January 8, 2010

    • Friday: this week's third snow day. Though it may seem derisory to those of you in Canada, or Norway, there are about eight inches of snow in our street, which have been comfortably resting there since Tuesday lunchtime, thank you very much. Yesterday, Ricky dug the car out of the street using only the yard brush. (It's very powdery snow, you see). I went to work, gaining much-appreciated kudos ...
  • Snow day!

    January 5, 2010

    • Well, we've had the shortest day, according to reports, but according to me, the mornings appear to be getting darker. How do they make that work? This morning, I was up and at 'em before the sun had risen. In the glow of the street light, I could see snow falling. Great, heavy, juicy globs of snow, a dozen snowflakes clumping together like heavenly muesli. I thought, "Should I go to work? ...

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  • Not much - just the first

    Not much - just the first chapter. It's even better than I remembered it first time around!
  • Only fools and sweethearts

    You can do it! Keep going! You have only a few more tired little steps to make....
  • Oh, thanks Sue! It

    Oh, thanks Sue! It threatened to be the worst Christmas ever, but ended up being one of the best! The game of musical chairs was the funniest things I've watched ever. You couldn't make it up...
  • Thanks Mary, thanks Nancy!

    I've become very disciplined in my writing lately! It helps that I get home from work before 5 most days, so have a sizeable chunk of evening in which to write. And re: the stats....
  • I don't know Ryoma, I think

    I don't know Ryoma, I think I'm just one of those pathologically 'busy' people. There's nothing I hate more than feeling that I've wasted the day!

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