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October 25, 2013
Busting the Pantster vs Plotter Myth
We humans seem to thrive on dichotomies. Descartes kick-started the mind/body dichotomy with his famous thought experiment in which he concluded ‘I think, therefore I am’. In the last century, psychologists came up with the nature/nurture myth, and spent decades trying to work out what was more important to the development of a human being […]
October 23, 2013
All Hallows Read
Famous, and rather cute author, Neil Gaiman, has come up with an idea to spread the love of books. He calls it All Hallows Read and the idea is to give scary books instead of chocolate and candy for Halloween… Okay, I think we can add the word ‘and’ to that equation : This Halloween […]
October 21, 2013
Windows 7 for Beginners – Folders
Whenever you start learning something new, the hardest part is always the terminology. All the words are in English, but they are often used in ways that are counter intuitive. Folders is one such term. In the physical world, you can have a manilla folder, or a plastic book-like folder, or you could just have […]
October 20, 2013
Alergic to Life – a review
I’m not plagued by horrible allergies so when my blogging friend Kathryn Chastain Treat launched her book – Allergic to Life – I bought it in a show of solidarity and friendship. I began reading ‘Allergic to Life’ for all the fantastic information I knew it would contain. I kept reading ‘Allergic to Life’ because it was […]
October 19, 2013
Booktrack – Music for ebooks
It’s almost midnight but I just had to share this with you. It’s a demo of a new whiz bang innovation called ‘Booktrack’. http://youtu.be/lgjc20YHYPA The idea is to provide a soundtrack, or sound effects, that will be synced to the ebook you read. I’m not sure whether the sound in the demo would enthrall me, […]
October 17, 2013
For the blogger who has everything – the Liebster award. :)
I haven’t done an award post for a very long time because I sort of ran out of things to say. Then along comes Candy’s Monsters with some interesting new questions, and I’m drooling to get started. Who am I to ignore my inner me? lol So thank you for nominating me Candy! This Liebster […]
October 15, 2013
The Kobogate debacle…really?
When my Daughter and Nephew were eight, I rented what I thought was a kid’s video from the video shop [yes, it was that long ago]. The cover of the video featured creatures similar in style to the Dark Crystal type puppets. My eye caught on the puppets and didn’t even register the R classification […]
October 11, 2013
Stop Press! And the winner is…
Thanks to timezone differences – and the fact I was out shopping – I just learned that I WON THE FLASH FICTION contest! But no Melbourne Cup photo finish was closer than this one. JD Mader and I were literally neck and neck with the exact same number of votes. It should have been a […]
Confessions of a 60 year old fangirl
I think I suffer from arrested development. I was just thirteen when the Easybeats were top of the charts with ‘Friday on my mind’. I was sooooo in love with this cute, cheeky faced lad… [My thanks to Bluebird for posting this blast from the past on her blog today] Fast forward 47 years and […]
October 9, 2013
Flash fiction competition – please VOTE!
It’s voting time again, and I have to say my spy/romance/tragedy story is up against some very stiff competition, so stiff I ended up voting for someone else’s story. I still like mine, but… Ahem. I won’t tell you which story I voted for, that wouldn’t be fair. However if you go HERE you’ll be […]
