Author: deborahb
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That sly addiction?
Yay! For Will Self: I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy petting – but novels are the full monte. Frankly, if I didn’t enjoy writing novels I wouldn’t do it – the world hardly needs any more and I can think of numerous more useful things someone…
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Guidebook for Time Travellers
Anybody who was catapulted back in time to Ice Age Europe would stand a good chance of being intelligible to the locals by using words such as “I”, “who” and “thou” and the numbers “two”, “three” and “five”, the work suggests. Which reminds me of a friend I was with in Europe with. She’d learned…
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The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid
“I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid” This from the Shadow Forest Authors website, whose goal is to stop global illiteracy. (They could, er, perhaps consider the intermediary goal of re-coding how their website pages open — always in new windows.) One of…
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And not a moment too soon
I have updated my website! A cobbler’s children are always the last to have new shoes, & seeing as I used to make websites, naturally I had a bulk of day-job distaste for the idea of re-designing my own site. But once I installed the WordPress blog, I realised a new design had to go…
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Links: Katrina
From body_impolitic: And then there’s the other truth: Racism has always been used to divide people from other people with common interests, and it’s a very useful tool. African-American poet and writer Audre Lorde, self-described “Black lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” said, “The master’s tools will not dismantle the master’s house.” Divisiveness is one of the…
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Entymology is Fun!
Jedlicka Czech: Derived from Czech jedle meaning “fir tree”. Perhaps given to a person who lived near a fir tree. Perhaps. Or perhaps given to a person who *licked* a fir tree. Or perhaps given to a person just for no darn good reason at all. Ah, the czech. So hilarious.
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Need a laugh? Please.
jaylake points us towards: http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2005-09-06/index.html Though I have to say, this one might be my favourite so far: http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/1996-08-12/index.html No, no, wait, this one: http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/1997-01-13/index.html (So …. is there an LJ feed for this site?) And from bookslut: I said. “Oh, come on, have some heart. One of those poor girl is a depressive, says…
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Look, ma, my name in lights
It is incumbent upon me to mention the HorrorScope review of Agog! 3: Smashing Stories is a worthy purchase for fans of speculative mystery and outer space writing and the various unclassifiable pieces included alongside broaden this appeal considerably. I’m afraid my story, Number 3 Raw Place, did not meet the reviewer’s taste, being described…