This is the continuing series of questions for you in the comments, here’s how it works. I’ll ask you a question, and you either answer in the comments or on your own blog and drop a link to the post. Question: When I was about 14 I went, with my family, on holiday to the [...]
Archive for March, 2010
What’s the longest detour you’ve ever taken?
Posted in Questions on March 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Watching the birds
Posted in Articles on March 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
So here’s a weird thing. A few years ago the school my mum was working at decided that it wanted to get rid of its bird collection. Its collection of dead birds in a box. Birds that had been stuffed. But apparently you can’t sell these birds because at least one of them was rare [...]
Notes
Posted in Creative on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I used to write by hand
A change of scene
Posted in Articles on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have been doing a lot of programming this week. This has been at work and at home. Sometimes changing scene like this is enough to kick start things. But the main thing is that I’ve really enjoyed the short order start/finish/result element. Of course this probably means I am avoiding the novel… But at [...]
What is your desert island drink?
Posted in Questions on March 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This is the continuing series of questions for you in the comments, here’s how it works. I’ll ask you a question, and you either answer in the comments or on your own blog and drop a link to the post. Question: What is your desert island drink? You are on a desert island, you get [...]
Half Birthdays
Posted in Articles on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sure that you all have problems remembering birthdays and anniversaries. It’s a very common problem. In fact, I’m pretty sure everyone is bad at it, we just don’t like to admit to it. It’s the same problem with people’s names. It’s easier to work around the problem with birthdays because you can always write [...]
Creative Admin
Posted in Articles on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There are some pieces of admin you pretty much have to do to be creative. Things that have nothing to do with the actual creativity. They are things like posting that blog post you’ve written, buying more ink etc. I vaguely talked about this in a recent article ‘Start’. I warned against creating a lavish [...]
Do fish think of the water
Posted in Creative on March 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
like birds think of the air?
Wicked sick
Posted in Articles on March 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I think it probably started with ‘bad’ being good. And then when I was a kid, ‘wicked’ meant good. Because these happened before or while I was a kid, these terms seem perfectly reasonable. However, as with so many things, we are comfortable with all of the progress that occurred until we are around eight. [...]
Alternative Alliteration
Posted in Articles on March 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So alliteration is roughly when a serious of words start with the same letter or sound (or the first sylabul does but there are several definitions). But you get the idea: Alex almost alliteratively articulated. When something is alliterative in speech I like to mention it. But I would like to make a change to [...]
