Happy Endings
Friday night: Curled up on the sofa in a state of despondency. So quiet and lackluster that my husband continually asks me what’s wrong. To which I *sigh* and say I’m fine, just wiped out after a few...
View ArticleSelf-Promotion: A Spreadsheet to Spread Your Sh*t ;)
Okay, so the weather is too warm and pretty in London to concentrate at the computer very long today. These days need to be seized, as my skin cells have been deprived of Vitamin D for too long, I...
View ArticleEditing Out the Editor
This shit editing is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Hey, Editors, are ya there? Editors? Editors? Bueller? Bueller?… I recently saw this editorial, “The Price of Typos,” which comments on how “typos are...
View ArticleOh, Okay Fine. May as Well.
It seems inevitable that part of the aspiring author’s procrastination from writing consists of farting around with mocking up potential cover art. I suppose I might have sort of maybe done this myself...
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* * BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP * * This blog is temporarily on hiatus. The Primate was at first preoccupied with October travels, and now with November NaNoWriMo. (see sidebar widget to track my...
View ArticleThe Roads Newly Taken
[Warning: The rocky trail ahead is just me placing the needle back on my same broken record. Am in pausing-to-take-stock mode, and writing is my way of therapeutically reflecting through it, so please...
View ArticleKeep Calm and Query On
KEEP CALM - CARRY ON (Photo credit: atomicShed) And at the snap of the fingers, the Primate goes from pensive to proactive… Last week may have been my time to stop and take stock, but this week I’ve no...
View ArticleWhen Not Being Published Doesn’t Feel Too Shabby…
First of all, I’ve got nothing to whinge about because 15 submissions in over a year is hardly attacking the publishing world with my A-game. God-willing that I can light the fire under my arse by this...
View ArticleNo “Hem”-ing and Hawing About It: Hemingway Speaks in “Ernest” on Writing –...
“It is not that things should be published. But I believe now that it is important that they exist.” Ah, and that quotation wasn’t even Hemingway; it was his friend Evan Shipman. But I figured it made...
View ArticleBits, Bobs, and Birds that Beatbox
Word, bird! Shout-out to the feathered friends in my tree for giving a Monkey music to bust a brag to, yo. (Can you tell a square white girl writes this?) On to the bits and bobs, then. It’s been an...
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