Sunday retrospective

Backwards Clock

I was a busy blogger in October 2014, and some of what I wrote about might be worth a second look.

I reported on research:

Everything you needed to know about the dances at Regency assemblies and balls.
The wonderful history and the rules of mob football, with a video link to a modern day survival.
My pet peeve — regencies with more dukes that the entire peerage of England contained, and every one of them single and handsome (and what the real statistics were).
The fascinating history of wheelchairs (Did you know that one of the earliest self-propelled was invented shortly after the inventor demonstrated one of the earliest pairs of roller skates?)
My favourite resource for what was actually in the news in England in any given year.

I also wrote about

why I blog and how
where my ideas come from (using Candle’s Christmas Chair as a case study)

And that just brought us to the middle of the month.

There were a few process and excerpt posts in there, too. Take a look around. Enjoy.

I’ll leave you with the contents of my post on having a jackdaw mind.

Elizabeth Boyle writes on synchronicity in the writing process; something I’m experiencing every day as I write Farewell to Kindness, and pieces go ‘click’.

…in writing, it is often a sort of synchronicity of pieces: a treasure exhibit, a line from a biography, and a literature degree that left me with a profound love of myths. None of them are truly connected, but they all came together for this story. I have come to believe that nothing in life is inconsequential. It all has value eventually. Just keep your eyes and imagination open.

At last, my jackdaw mind is finding a use for all those shiny facts and snippets.