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When is a Christmas party not just a Christmas party?

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Christmas Eve tomorrow and I still can’t quite believe it. My poor brain is still three weeks behind itself, like all of my internal clocks stopped when the flu fever hit and only started again two weeks ago, without having been wound on. I’m not best pleased with the last few weeks, what with flu [...]

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Will the real Emma please stand up?

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Endings are also beginnings, and the tiny gap between the two is such an odd place to be. I’m in the middle of one, I was studiously avoiding it last week, but on Monday I met the amazing Pamela Slim and everything changed. I’m not who I think I am any more. I don’t remember [...]

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No longer my baby

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I’m not very well at the moment, and so I am trying hard to settle down to something that will make me feel better. Oddly, after avoiding this blog for the longest time since I started it, I find myself coming here to talk to you. And to myself. I’m confused. And scared. And panicking, [...]

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Finished.

Monday, March 30th, 2009

It’s finished. Even as I type that, I don’t believe it. Of course, as many writers say, a book is never truly finished. I’m sure that if I left it alone for a few months and came back to it, I would find something else to edit, some tweak to make. But, as Isobel says, [...]

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