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July 11, 2015
Stand Up to Release.
It is true that it is tough to stand for what you believe when you are in the minority, but can you honestly live with yourself if you don’t?
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
“It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.”~Caroline Kennedy
How often do people like to tell you that what you think is wrong or what you believe is wrong? And how often do you then stay quiet or back down?
A lot of people complain about the world but are silent when it comes to the things they have problems with.
Part of being positive in the world, finding your positive place and place of peace is to release those things inside of you. If you believe in something, then live that something. If you believe something is right, then stand up for that something.
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July 10, 2015
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July 9, 2015
Mary Rose – Anniversary Giveaway
Mary Rose sinking
My friend and fellow time travel enthusiast and author, Howard Loring, is very excited about the forthcoming 470th anniversary of the sinking of the Mary Rose on the 19th July.
Some time ago, or maybe sometime hence, he wrote a book of short stories entitled Tales of the Elastic Limit. The seventh epic fable of this volume, “Dinner with the Doge,” visits the real history of the sinking of the Mary Rose in 1545, including Henry VIII’s reaction as he witnessed the calamity. The dramatic narrative is couched within a larger historical context of the rise of worldwide commerce and the advent of science as an established discipline. I’ll say no more.
In honor of the occasion, Howard is giving away free copies of this short story. If you’d like one, just email him at hloring@precognitionpress.com, stating preferred format. PDF is easiest for him.
Howard and I both own time-traveling buses. If you haven’t been on one of my coach tours yet, you can start with my first one which visited Stonehenge during it’s construction. Mister Loring has just posted a few short new tours. Take a look.
July 8, 2015
Robert Merrill – Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (1946)
July 7, 2015
Believing in Dreams
Re-blogged from a post by by SC Skillman
It is a dream… of what has never been… true, it has never been, and therefore, since the world is alive, and moving yet, my hope is the greater that it one day will be… dreams have before now come about of things so good… we scarcely think of them more than the daylight, though once people had to live without them, without even the hope of them.
These words are from William Morris the great Victorian designer. His dream was that everyone would “have his share of the best”; he longed to see art at the centre of everyone’s lives so that they might “always have pleasure in the things that they use.”
Right now (June-September 2015), there is an exhibition of the work of William Morris and his contemporaries at Compton Verney, an art gallery very close to where I live in Warwick, a place I love visiting.
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LEGO Death Star Canteen – Eddie Izzard
I know that this video has been floating around the internet for a few years now, but I have only just seen it. As it made me COL (chuckle out loud), I wanted to share my enjoyment with all of my friends.
I hope that it makes you COL too.
Review: Incendiary
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Original, entertaining, authentic and believable
An East End [of London:] woman decides to write a letter to Osama bin Laden after a team of his suicide bombers wreck her life by indiscriminately blowing up the crowd at a football match, killing both her husband and her four-and-a-quarter year-old son, along with over a thousand other football fans.
The letter is written, mainly in the authentic language of an East End gal, but with snippets of people from other worlds. The grammar and punctuation is appaling, but it is totally in context. She relates, to Osama, all of the events and all of her feelings from immediately before the atrocity to many months afterwards.
There is a lot of humour interspersed throughout the tragedy. One of the funniest passages that I have read recently will not spoil your enjoyment of this book.
It didn’t smell posh in Harvey Nichols it smelled of all the different perfumes in the world very strong and mixed up together. It felt like having your throat scraped. I took my boy into John Lewis once and it smelled just like that in the perfume section. Yuk Mummy he said. It smells nice and nasty all at once. It smells of angels’ feet.
Hilarious!
I can understand why some people do not like this style of writing and cannot get into the book at all. This is a book that you will either love or hate. It is either one star or five stars plus plus. I cannot tell what it will be like for you, but I would recommend that you give it a chance. For me, it was one of the best books that I read in 2009.
July 1, 2015
The Writing Process for Creating a Novel in Less Than a Month
by SC Skillman
This is an article by SC Skillman, giving three tips to help you to complete a 50,000 word first draft of a novel in a month. Three years after reading this inspiring article I saw NaNoWriMo, which led me to actually write my 70,000 word debut novel, Eleven Miles, in just a month and two days. I hope it inspires you in the same way it did me.
The task is: write a novel of at least 50,000 words in a month; and by the word “novel” we must mean, of course, “the first draft of a novel.” For I have not yet ever created a novel in a month; but in nine days time I will have done that very thing; and therefore I consider myself qualified to write the article.
Read the rest of SC Skillman’s article here
June 30, 2015
Book Tuesday – Cecil The Bully
How exciting! “Cecil the Bully” is finished. Even better, Mello is offering three free copies in a drawing from all her followers who simply “like” her post. Not even a question to answer.
So your first step is to “like” her post.
Then re-blog so that all your friends get a chance to set their eyes on this hilarious book.
Originally posted on Thoughts by Mello-Elo:
It is with great pleasure I would like to announce that Cecil is complete! The last two chapters have all the humour and naughty pranks expected from our motley crew with an added twist at the end.
I would like to thank you, my intrepid readers, for encouraging me and giving feedback every step of the way. Unfortunately, I will not be posting the last two chapters. Sorry about that!
Instead, I would like to offer the opportunity for you to win a free copy of Cecil The Bully once it has been polished and published. If you would like a chance to win a free ebook copy, please click the ‘like’ button or leave a comment for me to find you. I can promise Cecil is filled with loads of slapstick fun, corny tricks and school humour that will tickle both adults and children alike. I will…
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