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Feb 21, 2013 06:35AM
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Sharon wrote: "Mornign TrishaHmmm not been getting notifications!"
Me neither, though saying that I have been writing acknowledgements and disclaimers and so on and so forth. I am about to start the hard slog now, wish me luck! Alain is chuffed with his carpet bits, and well pleased that he doesn't have to try and find time to take his mother shopping!
Morning Trisha
We are in silence today. We have had a power cut at work, and our emails and phones are still out (but the internet is still working) lol
I am not getting much done since school was canceled for to day due to nasty weather
Sharon wrote: "We are in silence today. We have had a power cut at work, and our emails and phones are still out (but the internet is still working) lol"Bizarre that, you must be in a hot spot with WIFI access! Well battle has commenced. I'm working on the prologue now.
Trisha wrote: "I am not getting much done since school was canceled for to day due to nasty weather"Tomorrow evening sees the start of half term for Sophie!There begins the fight for the right to use the computer, sorry Sophie - you lose! If she's good I might let her play with the tablet providing she's careful!
Sharon wrote: "For which one, The Menorah Murders?"Yep, no other than The Menorah Murders - I am now going through and removing all the naughty words I put it, to pep it up a little! They are okay when used in context but I don't use them normally I only put them in because I was told it was too chick lit! So now I'm going to please me!
Well as long as you are happy with it by the end of it, then that is what counts as well.
Sharon wrote: "Well as long as you are happy with it by the end of it, then that is what counts as well."Yep, and with the comments he made about Cally's Secret being the finished article and this one being WIP made me well pleased with the last edit I did before publishing Cally's Secret! I'll get there, it may take a while, and I know by now you are sick to the back teeth of reading it and are champing at the bit for me to finish HOD so you can start reaading something else!
No. i will nevery be sick of it. i might not read it for a While when i buy it lol
Sharon wrote: "No. i will nevery be sick of it. i might not read it for a While when i buy it lol"I will buy it just to put it on my bookshelf, and I'll even sign it for Sophie, naturally. I have to buy her Cally's Secret too! I'm costing me a fortune!
EvaI just got to a comment in my editing of The Menorah Murders and my editor asks me 'Why are the chapters so short?' Short chapters have a tendancy to spoil the readers flow.... I didn't think my chapters were short! The odd one, maybe but mostly they are quite long, for me!
Morning allJust tried to log into Twitter for my morning quick pass by, it's not working, me thinks the birdie's chucking a sickie!
If I see the words 'needs commas!' again I will chuck my dolly out the pram for real! Just kidding, whoever invented punctuation should have made it simpler - I dare say it was a man! Well I have to have someone to blame until I find the real culprit. Don't I?
We may invent crap but what have women invented? Ever? C'mon guys, help me fight this sexist banter!
Guys?
Hello?
I'm the only one aren't I?!
I feel so small...
Tony wrote: "We may invent crap but what have women invented? Ever? C'mon guys, help me fight this sexist banter!
Guys?
Hello?
I'm the only one aren't I?!
I feel so small..."
Marie Curie's name ring any bells? And I'm sure if I went online I would find loads of women who invented things-I know, got one, got one-headaches! Surely they were invented by a woman, well according to most men they were! Lol, are you feeling outnumbered? Diddums do it to you!
C'mon, admit it, you just lurve being the centre of attention, with all us girls hanging on your every word! The invitation to join should have read men must have sense of humour, we girls know how to wind you guys up!
Morning Tony! How's you? I needed that, I'm editing, and if I do two chapters at a time I might not be completely gaga by the end of it!I know it will be worth the effort, but I almost know this book word for word!
I'm good ta!I've had the last couple of days off with the children for half term so haven't got a thing done!
I know I've said it before, but I dislike editing immensely! I have five or six short stories sitting in a pile waiting for me :-/
Tony wrote: "I'm good ta!I've had the last couple of days off with the children for half term so haven't got a thing done!
I know I've said it before, but I dislike editing immensely! I have five or six shor..."
I sympathise, it's so soul numbing, going over and over the same stuff, arranging them, and then, five minutes later putting it back how it was to start with except for the addition of a comma!
Oh, how I hate, punctuation!
Gripe over! Soph starts her half term this afternoon! Two whole weeks, of Gulli and bribery to try to get her to switch it off! And then next week Alain is off too, so there goes the lie ins and any chance of working on the editing. I will be spending the entire week painting, in one colour or another, followed by ivy, wisteria, horses, guys, and gals! Not forgetting the Japanese symbols, which for all I know, could be telling me I'm stupid!
We still have no emails today. Even our phones went yesterday. I was a bit p'd off. Just finished typing a tape, had another power cut and lost the lot. Any guesses what I have to do this morning?I also have boring training this afternoon, from 1 - 5. Could my day get any worse?
Sharon wrote: "Morning all."Morning, I didn't see the recipe for Peanut Butter Fudge, not that I like it. Fudge is too sweet!
Last day of school for Sophie today for 2 weeks I still have a weeks worth of lie-ins until Sergeant Alain makes me report for duty every morning at 8 o clock! Painting detail unless I'm tiling of course!
Ah but it will all be worth it in the end ;o)
Before we go back to food chat, Sarah, thought you might like to see this answer to a question about women inventors. Really sexist but quite funny!
I just read your conversations and sat here giggling all to myself.
Tony wrote: "Before we go back to food chat, Sarah, thought you might like to see this answer to a question about women inventors. Really sexist but quite funny!"Sharon wrote: "Ah but it will all be worth it in the end ;o)"
:o( I know, it's just the thought of having to get up at 8, every day for a week!
Okay it will give me a break from editing, I did my two chapters for this morning and I am going to shower change into me scruffs, shove some food into a bag, and go to the house for the rest of the day!
Sharon wrote: "I just read your conversations and sat here giggling all to myself."Yes, it was, wasn't it! I'm practising my punk tuation today! I may take my tablet with me and then I can take some photos and put them straight on the net. I think!
Tony wrote: "http://answers.yahoo.com/question/ind..."Lol. Yes, very funny, and yes, very sexist! But I couldn't help but laugh, I wonder if there's an equivalent for men? And my IQ? Well, last time I checked, it was at the Mensa entry level! Which shocked the hell out of me, and horrified my husband, who always assumed he was the more intelligent of the two of us! Shot him down in flames, he didn't pass the entry test, and he subsequently forbade me to enter! That, and so many other more relevant reasons, is why, and how, he became the ex!
Twitter is still sick! I just checked!
Tony wrote: "It works for me."Bizarre. I get a bright blue screen with stuff down the side. Can't get in to follow, or tweet!
Sharon wrote: "Mine is working as well."Mine went like it yesterday for a while too, gremlin in the works, it's blooming cold outside. The wind cuts you in two and the ice on the pool is still frozen! I thought about putting my towels out but changed my mind, tumble drier is easier, and I won't get frostbite putting them in there!
Sharon wrote: "It keeps trying to snow here :o("It's too cold too snow here I think, I am making Normandy pork for lunch with pasta, in England I called it Somerset pork! Same recipe, give or take, and the French say we English don't know how to cook!
We both fell asleep after lunch, each on a different sofa and the dog took turns in annoying us! Alain's gone off to the house to move the heater into the upstairs bathroom to finish drying off the plaster so I can start tiling tomorrow or Monday. I only hope the malaise that hit me before lunch, and that feels like I'm coming down with the flu, or something on those lines doesn't materialise.
Just bought pillars of the earth and world without end on DVD. Anyone seen them?
Tony wrote: "Just bought pillars of the earth and world without end on DVD. Anyone seen them?"Nope, can't say I have. I buy films and never watch them, I have at least six I've bought recently and not watched yet! I'm either writing, cooking or painting!
Have you, at least, read the books? They are superb!
Tony wrote: "Have you, at least, read the books? They are superb!"No, the only books I have read of late have been my own-several times, and I am getting bored of them now, but editing has to be done. It's a means to an end!
That's a shame. They are not new books, early nineties I think. Definitely give them a read when you can.
Tony wrote: "That's a shame. They are not new books, early nineties I think. Definitely give them a read when you can."What are they about? Because I'm not a fan of sci-fi or fantasy.
Hi all. Have been so cold all day. Spent most of the day cuddled up with the dog by the fire. I went to my room to write and in an hour my hands were numb.
I caved in today and put my book up for FREE.
Here is the link incase you want to take a look.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BXQF66
Hope you are all keeping warm.
I caved in today and put my book up for FREE.
Here is the link incase you want to take a look.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BXQF66
Hope you are all keeping warm.
Its still come out wrong
The books called: In The Devil's Own Words.
The blurb was praised on a review site, thanks Sarah. Better get ready for red wine night.
The books called: In The Devil's Own Words.
The blurb was praised on a review site, thanks Sarah. Better get ready for red wine night.
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