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The good cop and bad cop duke it out

Monday, May 11th, 2009

I am a walking, talking good-cop bad-cop routine at the moment. Having one on each shoulder is tiring me out. They’re heavy – must be the doughnuts. So I’m shaking them off onto my desk and I’m going to let them duke it out in front of me whilst I write this post. They’re dressed [...]

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Dear scared bit,

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

I know something is bothering you because I am feeling grumpy and unable to settle to any writing. I’m old enough now to realise that when I feel this way for no apparent reason, there’s Stuff going on underneath. So I thought I’d write you a letter, and then let this percolate a bit, to [...]

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My muse has a big stick…

Monday, February 9th, 2009

… and she’s not afraid to use it. I’m back! After a week of a miserable cold that crushed any ability to comment elsewhere, and only produce one blog post (goodness!) I have lots I want to talk about, and here seems a good place to do it. I have been hugely frustrated, being laid [...]

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Into the shadowy corners…

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

I haven’t posted for a few days. Yesterday I wrote most of a post about publishing, but today I was unable to complete it and put it here. Just like the few other times this week when I have come here to write something and just failed to do so. So I thought about it [...]

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Being brave enough to show some ankle – Part Two

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Picture, if you will, a large room in a sprawling house, filled with curious things that are making noises, sparkling, tinkling like crystal bells and some making music. Books are piled floor to ceiling, and wisps fly around the room, looking for something or someone to grab hold of them and manifest them into an [...]

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