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December 17, 2013
Weekly writing challenge: collecting detail
The Daily Post:
“The writer’s brain constantly collects fodder, the tiny details that enliven your writing, that help you create vivid imagery, scenes, stories, novels, and poems.
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Once you’ve collected your [three] details, your “glimmers of a beginning,” write at least one paragraph containing your original details.”
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I stood looking around me at a very small local fair. The pretty little booths were manned by a variety of types, but one stood out because of she was becoming both...
December 16, 2013
The Daily Prompt: memories of holidays past
The Daily Prompt keep coming up with topics that seem to be aimed directly at me, and here’s another. It might seem at first to be less than joyful, but read on …
My beloved husband, diagnosed with lung cancer in July 2003 (though he’d stopped smoking 18 years before), was absolutely determined not to let it affect our life negatively. I, on the other hand, had no such thought: I was in complete denial. We’d already made plans for another trip to France; and as his medicos were enthusiastic on...
December 15, 2013
Eight weeks on: do I need Focus?
Maybe it’s that I’m being affected by the Reader (and especially by Freshly Pressed): visiting that large grid of impressive and interesting sites, the first thing that strikes me today is that they’re tagged by TOPIC.
Um.
Have I committed the first and most dangerous sin in blogsville – of maintaining a site that cannot be classified?
I believe I have.
In fact, I’m obliged to admit that I have.
Having just gone into ‘Edit blogs I follow’ to check them all, I do find one or two that are roughly as...
December 13, 2013
Bach to the forest …
If you admire innovation … if a familiar melody can fill your heart … why, then, this video is for you!
And it will make you laugh, as well!
Filed under: beauty, music Tagged: innovation
Have you bean sent good wishes?
This is, so far, my favourite xmas image.
There are several reasons for so … ahh … unusual a thing falling into the category, which are:
it’s funny!:-D
I am addicted to coffee
It comes from my coffee supplier who is without peer: Jenny took the time and trouble to educate my coffee palate and now keeps me supplied rapidly, kindly and helpfully
I’m not someone for whom xmas has meaning: this is a season specifically designed for families, and I no longer have one
I used the verb ‘designed’ deliberat...
December 11, 2013
Loss … footed in joy
I look back and see nothing but wonder …We had the time of our life.
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(The Daily Prompt challenge for today is, I believe a bit of a typo: the title comes from a couple of days back. I’ve retitled it but kept the pingback.)
Filed under: Daily Prompt, photos, yesterday Tagged: CS, postaday
December 10, 2013
A seasonal poem
I do not seek to have this wish at Christmas misconstrued;
I’m thinking of a sticky post forever to be glued
that says “I just want ATLMD to be reviewed …!”
“What’s that?!” “My book.” “Oh, now I see it on your sidebar stuck …
Reviews are hard to get; you’ll need a modicum of luck.”
A modicum won’t do – I need enough to fill a truck!
Reviews appear to be the way a book gets to be known;
depending on the site, of course, the readers will be prone
to have a gink if words of faint approval have been sown...
December 9, 2013
There’s a lot to it …
It’s taken me these seven weeks to realise – an incrementing realisation, I must add – that there are lots of things to take into account when committing to a blogsite.
I’ve a brief list, in no particular order:
• There are things I shall NEVER be able to work out unless someone knocks on my door and says “I’m from the Internet, and I’m here to help …”
Like?, you ask. OK: like Creative Commons, just one example. I honestly can’t understand clearly how CC works, in terms of actual protection
• The...
December 8, 2013
Daily Prompt: Learning style
I hope this is permitted by The Daily Post … It’s a short section from my book; and I use it for the simple reason that today’s ‘assignment’ could scarcely be more to the point. I might have written it especially. But of course I didn’t: I wrote it several years ago, as everything else within my memoir.
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