Category Archives: Personal

Writing, and not

By Thorn | Published: July 10, 2007

I’m writing.
In fact, I’ve probably done more on my novel so far this month than in all of June, and it’s nice to see it start to come together. I’ve even been doing three or four handwritten pages in my journal every day - producing horrid crap that will never again be read is fun.
I’m [...]

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Writing for an audience

By Thorn | Published: June 18, 2007

It’s cloudy out. I took a picture of them - the clouds, I mean - with my sugar-snap peas in the foreground. It looked good in sepia.

My OS X weather widget tells me it’s raining, but my eyes tell me it’s not; as such, I must conclude that rain in the near future is not [...]

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Two weeks of blogging!

By Thorn | Published: June 16, 2007

Novelish opened on June 2nd, or fifteen days ago. Keeping a blog has been great fun for me - if slightly more effort than I’d anticipated - and I’m starting to make small adjustments:
General updates

The Read in 2007 page is updated with the latest books I’ve read (I’m up to 40 so far). The links [...]

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The Court of Air, Harry Potter, and Other Important Things

By Thorn | Published: June 12, 2007

It’s been a few days now since I’ve updated Novelish, and that definitely wasn’t intended.

Besides the age-old excuse of being busy, the lack of updates is due to my having been stuck on a few of the reviews I’m putting together. Writing for an audience (however small) does make me want to get it right, [...]

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Ruby in the Smoke discussion

By Thorn | Published: June 6, 2007

The Scholar’s Blog book group is currently discussing Philip Pullman’s The Ruby in the Smoke. If you’ve read the book and would like to join in, you can head on over and do so - see comment #1 on that site for my own thoughts.

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Oh joy! Or: The Finding of an Unexpected Book Sale

By Thorn | Published: April 20, 2007

I took the bus downtown for an unrelated reason, and - being early - decided to stop at the public library’s main branch to get a few books. I already had plenty to read, but I hoped to find a few good ones. On entering the area, a banner for a spring book sale greeted [...]

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