"Lord, we know what we are, but we know not what we may be." William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Paul Whybrow
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Nothing much to do with writing, but if you've got a wristwatch that won't start after changing the battery, give it a squirt with WD40. It worked for me!When I have days when I don't appear to have accomplished much, I remember advice from Robert Louis Stevenson: "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."Wonderful Giffgaff! I've praised this mobile broadband provider before, and they've just got even more splendid, doubling the £20 allowance from 20GB + IGB for emergency use, to 40GB + I GB. They're the best company I've ever dealt with.
Potential disaster! After being asked for the full manuscript by The Future Bookshelf, I duly sent it off last Friday. A bit surprised not to receive an acknowledgement, I was mortified when they contacted me yesterday asking why I hadn't sent it! I re-sent it, blaming its non-delivery on the Rings of Saturn, which are made of lost emails. I'm glad they contacted me, otherwise I'd have thought I was unsuccessful."If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers." Irvin S. Cobb, 1876-1944, American humourist and columnist.I'm sorry to hear of the death of one of my writing heroes, Andrea Camilleri, whose Inspector Montalbano crime novels are intriguing fun. He should be one of the patron saints of older writers, for he found fame at the age of 66. Andrea Camilleri obituary'How do you do it?' said night.
'How do you wake and shine?'
'I keep it simple,' said light.
'One day at a time.'
Lemne SissayWise words from Pete Seeger: If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.A reason to write on, from Iris Murdoch: "A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms."My spell-checker made me smile. Writing to a friend about Amazon, I saw that Bezos was underlined in red—clicking on it, I saw 'did you mean Bozos?' Well, maybe....
A Freudian slip late last night made me realise it was time for bed. While editing a listing for my first crime novel Who Kills A Nudist? I noticed I'd typed Who Likks A Nudist? D'oh!Putting the boot into JKR...I'm saying nothing.
Dozy as a bear coming out of hibernation, I made a typo this morning, momentarily confused that @AgentPete had moved to California to teach kiteboarding!
As I continue my confused self-promotion campaign with blogging and social media, I couldn't agree more with J.G. Ballard's observation: "Any fool can write a novel but it takes a real genius to sell it."Feeling a bit down? Some wise words from Brené Brown: "Talk to yourself like someone you love."These days, I don't hate Mondays...instead, I make sure that Monday hates me!Many of you will know this already, but I recently found out, that the easiest way to highlight a block of text is to click once at the start of the text, hold the Shift key, then click once where you want the highlighting to end.A great demonstration of the power of poetry, in the Guardian, a poem called Breath by Adrian Rice: Poem of the week: Breath by Adrian RicePush notifications are working again, startling me as I sat here repeatedly uploading edited Colony posts onto my writer's blog!New literary agent Sinead Henghan is open for submissions, after being closed for a while to clear her slush pile. She uses an online submission form: Sinead Heneghan Literary AgencyIs it only me that does this? Play Alert Roulette—trying to guess how many Alerts they'll be as I sign-in to the Colony.I apologise for any images this evokes, but I noticed that an anagram of Harvey Weinstein is 'Shave Tiny Weiner'!Thank you for the birthday wishes. Old age, when actions creak louder than words!
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