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[Jim]

Ignite wrote: "I'm partial to the odd exclamation mark myself. Otherwise, how would you know I was exclaiming? I get edgy bordering on annoyed though, when they appear in multiples!!! . ..."


Careful, little beggars breed

[Kath]

Worse than coneys!

[Jim]

Patti (It's a grape life) wrote: "When do you have 'normal' conversations?..."

With 'normal' people

[Patti (baconater)]

These were Fazermint brand, Jim.

Your Mum would have approved.

I'm the moderation queen, Ignite. As you well know.

[Jim]

Ignite wrote: "Worse than coneys!"

but they're not such good eating!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Have just told my mum that I left her birthday present in the taxi. Now I have to get her something else. She was remarkably laid back about it...

[Jim]

Patti (It's a grape life) wrote: "These were Fazermint brand, Jim.

Your Mum would have approved.

I'm the moderation queen, Ignite. As you well know."

For moderation in all things, I think you ought to eat here
http://www.youtube.com/heartattackgrill

[Jim]

Just to give the Gumbee Fantasy Writers' Guild a bit of a plug, the blog is looking at fight scenes at the moment

http://gumbeeguild.co.uk/

[David]

I seem to have a penchant for the hyphen, but I'm desperately trying to give them up

[Kath]

Just cut down gradually or you'll get the shakes!

[Will]

Beware cold turkey david.

Ignite is a poultry expert...

[Kath]

.. where x is an unknown quantity and a spurt is a drip under pressure!

[Will]

I've never been called a spurt before.

[David]

No... I'm not even going to type it

[Patti (baconater)]

The mod is watching.

[David]

Ignite started it

[Jim]

Why is it my author thread looks like it's going to end up as a brawl between mods and rockers?

[David]

Don't know Jim, I scootered off quickly.

[Jim]

David wrote: "Don't know Jim, I scootered off quickly."

Don't blame you. I could hardly get to it for the police incident tape and people telling me 'move along, nothing to see, haven't you got homes to go to.'

[David]

That phrase sounds familiar

[Jim]

David wrote: "That phrase sounds familiar"

yes, you get it a lot on threads like mine ;-)

Anyway it's fine, I'm off outside to do something useful, and hopefully at some point today I get a chance to contemplate bringing a story to a close. I'm working on a 'prequel', a sort of 'Benor, the early years.' It'll more be a collection of short stories about him and the one I'm working on is a detective investigation and I'm trying to get that right

[David]

Sounds like that wouldbe a good one for me to start with, unless you advise diferently

[Jim]

David wrote: "Sounds like that wouldbe a good one for me to start with, unless you advise diferently"

Well it might not be published this year, it isn't half written, then it has to be ignored for three months, sent to the editor, come back, dealt with, sent to the editor, come back be dealt with, proof read with final editorial comments and then published. It might be out for Christmas.

If you want to start, The Flames of the City is utterly 'stand-alone'.
Swords for a Dead Ladycan also be read entirely on its own.

[David]

Christmas might be when I'm ready, Jim. I'll try to get to it before then and read the first published one.

[Jim]

David wrote: "Christmas might be when I'm ready, Jim. I'll try to get to it before then and read the first published one."

Sounds like a good way to spend Christmas but buy them now before we run out of electrons :-)

[David]

Hey Jim, you're visible again. You disappeared for a few days

[Jim]

David wrote: "Hey Jim, you're visible again. You disappeared for a few days"

shortage of electrons, that's the problem, get the books bought before we run out completely!

[Jim]

Culture, who needs it!
I mentioned at some point that thanks to my lady wife, forums are rendered somewhat distracting by the M&S knicker adverts.
So I blogged about it.
All I can say is forget culture, literature, selling books or whatever. type 'marks and spencer knicker adverts'into google and my blog appears 5th in the list.

How about that for a literary achievement!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Knickers to that!

[David]

Not knickers again, surely?

[Jim]

I sort of explained it in the blog
http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20...

but effectively I put out great literature, work my fingers to the bone slaving over a hot keyboard, and have inadvertently become a home for those searching for M&S underwear and who struggle to cope with google. For that small subset of people, I'm the greatest!
One guy who commented came up with a nice comment, that he regards his blog as something extra to those who read his books, he's 'adding value to to their lives' rather than just trying to sell to them.
I thought that was a nice strapline for a writer

[Kath]

Excellent - nick it!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I'm craving one of these...

http://www.ice-cream-recipes.com/knic...

[Jim]

Ignite wrote: "Excellent - nick it!"

Way back, when people still used usenet and 'signatures' were considered cool, I used to add 'Jim Webster,reality facilitator' to my posts
This was in about 1995. Since then others seem to have picked up on it :-)

[Jim]

Beware of inferior substitutes, if you want romance, passion, inadvertent honesty proceed immediately to


http://gumbeeguild.co.uk/2013/04/03/g...

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Thats really going to attract the readers....

[Will]

I'm convinced it's best to leave the romance to the girls.

Of course, sometimes the girls can be our characters...

[Patti (baconater)]

And on that note, what's the best and worst pick up line anyone has ever used on you, boys and girls?

Dave frequently sidles up next to me in pubs and sez 'you're cute. Wanna come home with me?'

It usually works. Unless I fancy another pint.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I was asked. 'Do you play darts often?'

[Jim]

Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Thats really going to attract the readers...."

Hey. I'm a husband. I don't have to do the whole romance thing any more.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I was just referring to the 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' line.

[Jim]

I'm married with three daughters, there's a limit to how much tact I have left to spare!

[David]

What's tact? Is it some sort of acronym?

[Will]

I'm a year out of my relationship.

I'm waiting to take notes. Sensible ones.

There might be a prize. (Or more likely, not)

[Jim]

Patti (It's a grape life) wrote: "And on that note, what's the best and worst pick up line anyone has ever used on you, boys and girls? ..."

I might well have used the best put down ;-)
I went out on a mates stag do and some lass was chatting me up and she seemed familiar.
I told her she reminded me of her mother, and I was the one who introduced her mother to her father :-)

[Will]

Let's see:

'hello, you look just like your mother.'

*smack*

Nope, don't think that one works....

[Jim]

Will wrote: "Let's see:

'hello, you look just like your mother.'

*smack*

Nope, don't think that one works...."

Well the stag night was for his mates in the karate club,

[Emma]

I had someone offer to help me into my kayak once (I was only about 14 at the time and with my family learning to roll in our kayaks). I looked at him and said that I was perfectly capable of getting into the boat on my own and didn't need help. Then promptly attempted to step into the boat before sitting down in it and very nearly capsizing it. My dad was kind enough to explain that the young man was flirting on the way home. My family found it hilarious.

[Will]

'Let me help you into your kayak.'

'What? We're in a pub!'

Another fail.....

[Jim]

Will wrote: "'Let me help you into your kayak.'

'What? We're in a pub!'

Another fail....."

Actually given the rain we had last autumn it might not be too bad a line