Brain sucking internet sucks brain
I came down to the mezzanine level of the hotel – about the only place I can get a semi-reliable wi-fi signal – with a plan to absorb some of the internet (or at least deal with some emails and try to clear some of the 1000+ unread Google Reader items) and I’ve managed somehow [...]
Very quickly
Very quick post because I’m supposed to be going out to photograph most of London (this may be an exaggeration; we’ll see) before too long. Of course, it would have helped if I’d actually done some organising of said photo walk; that may cause problems. It’s been a good, if very tiring week. We – [...]
Leaving on a jet plane
A cliché of a title, I know, but it’s late and I’m past being able to think about it. Yes, dear readers, I’m off on my travels again. Tomorrow I’m off to London (rather stupidly I’ve got to fly from Manchester to Gatwick because there’s no train journey that would get me to London from [...]
Neil Gaiman on second drafts
In a recent blog post, Neil Gaiman discusses the topic of second drafts: The second draft is where the fun is. In a first draft, you get to explode. The objective (at least for me) is to get it down on paper, somehow. Battle through the laziness and the not-enough-time and the this-is-rubbish and everything [...]
Free read, folks
American Gods, Neil Gaiman's semi-Americana, semi-mythological novel, is now available for free online. I have a deep fondness for American Gods. It was the first of Neil Gaiman's works that I read, having been introduced to him through his blog, and it led me on to reading, well, pretty much everything he's written. I'm currently [...]
I know that feeling
Whilst I feel his pain, it's good to know in some ways that Neil Gaiman suffers the same problems of the rest of us, even the massively inexperienced and by comparison untalented ones (Link): … I am still somewhere in the hell that's either Chapter 5 or Chapter 6 of THIS DAMNED BOOK which seems [...]
