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The Sourdough Posts: The Shadow Tree
Alas, a Rackham will have to do.
So, I’ve been sort of missing writing about The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and I thought ‘Why not give Sourdough and Other Stories the same
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The Bitterwood Posts: Terrible As An Army with Banners
Kathleen’s final cover art
This is the story that always make me cry, so I can never read it out anywhere or I’ll end up as a snotty, blubbering mess. It’s a mix of letters and diary entries; it starts
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Today, I try an experiment
Thursdays and Fridays are my stay-at-home-and-write days. My normal process is to have breakfast with Significant Other, wave him off to work, yell at the eejits on morning tv for about 30 mins before I turn
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This week I am still struggling with … (contains spoilers)
… this book, which I really wanted to like.
I really wanted to like it because I have such wonderfully terrifying memories of the first time I read the original Dracula. I remember waking in a cold sweat from a dream
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And now for something actually useful
… from the lovely Gio Clairval:
After those lists of 10 rules for writing The Guardian recently published http://tinyurl.com/ygzq42z, I thought Umberto Eco‘s rules should be on line, too, in English–I haven’t found other translations so far…
For the rest go here http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/2010/02/umberto-ecos-rules-for-writing-well.html