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A collection of 128 issues

Secret diaries

BBC News: The secret code of diaries There is a certain thrill to cracking a code. The 300,000-word journal of Charles Wesley, the co-founder of the Methodist movement, which was written in an obscure shorthand, has been solved and the diary transcribed. It has taken nine years. Wesley'

Knit up the ravelled sleeve of care

Cabled waist shaping on Eris is mostly done and I'm on the fourth skein of yarn. I'm going to adjust the decreases on the sleeves because I have teeny wrists and hate floppy sleeve cuffs. Might lengthen the body a bit too because my row gauge

Snapshot - August 2008

It's been a while since I did one of these. September and March in 2007 were the last. Similar to phoeknits weekly thing but a lot less frequent: Knitting Eris is back in the lunchtime knitting slot, which is pretty much the only time I knit. I have

Snapshot - State of the Onion

Apologies to Bloglines and Google Reader people, I cut the RSS feed to a summary to make it harder for thieving spammer weasels to steal my posts. Hope you like the rotating image at the top of the page (hit refresh to see the others). It's been a

How to write James Bond

BBC News: Faulks' quest to follow Fleming. Sebastian Faulks has written a new James Bond novel in the style of Ian Fleming to mark the centenary of Fleming's birth. To pay homage to the man who created 007, Faulks decided he had to get inside Fleming'

Writing Rituals

BBC News: ' Writuals' - scribes reveal daily routines. Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl did it in sheds at the bottom of the garden. Shaw's desk was famously on castors, so he could turn it throughout the day to get maximum light. Dahl even

Beta readers needed

I've been working on an urban fantasy story for our post-NaNoWriMo group. I'm looking for constructive criticism. "This stinks" is not constructive criticism, it's just rude. "This stinks because of X, Y, and Z" is better, but still rude. "

Writing up a storm

After National Novel Writing Month last year, a group of us wanted to keep meeting, and we're working on a series of stories set in the same world. In this world, magic is real, fairies are modelling on all the catwalks in London and New York, and dwarves

Changing metaphors

BBC News article: What now for the Forth metaphor? After 100 years the painting of the Forth Rail bridge is to come to an end, depriving the English language of one its most treasured similes. With three coats of a special paint, similar to that used in the offshore oil

Word Wars

BBC News: Small object of grammatical desire. It's small. It's flat. It's black. And according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, its numbers are shrinking. Welcome to the world of the hyphen. Having been around since at least the birth of printing, the hyphen

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