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Blog: Hi Mr Gaiman… If you could only eat one sandwich/baguette for the rest of your life, what would you pick? Have a good day from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoA very, very long one.
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Blog: I am extremely fortunate to say I’m going to see Ocean at the End of the Lane in London tomorrow. Do you have anything you’d like a first-time viewer to keep in mind? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoTake tissues. Or a pocket handkerchief if you have such a thing.
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Blog: Monster Of The Week 98: STAMPS from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoMonster Of The Week 98 is STAMPS, big boots, big hair, in between nothing there, never got into e-mail, uses snail mail, you can always hear what they’re up to, […]
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Blog: I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue review – a world of difference from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoThe Norwegian’s memoir about the trials of life with an incurable condition is a restrained and stunning meditation on what it means to be humanJan Grue knows t […]
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Blog: 139. The Red Horse from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoThe Red Horse. (Billy Boyle #15) James R. Benn. 2020. 336 pages. [Source: Bought]First sentence: Something was wrong. The wind bit at the back of my neck, and I […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Meta Writing Dare: Have a character take part in #NaNoWriMo and try to use some dares in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoHow meta can you go? Get a story within a story by having a character attempt NaNoWriMo. If you get stuck, you can always write how the character feels about being stuck when really you are just talking about […]
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Blog: The big idea: are we really so polarised? | Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoIn many democracies the political chasm seems wider than ever. But emotion, not policies, may be what actually divides usIn 2020, the match-making website OkCupid […]
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Blog: I Watch Movies: Okko's Inn from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoOkko’s Inn Okko is a schoolkid (the Japanese novel series this film is based on is called “The Junior Innkeeper Is A Grade Schooler”) and is involved in a car c […]
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Blog: Some Sources say from
Lord Matt (old geek) in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 3 years, 2 months agoSome Sources say – a site that corrects a problem in journalism that no one cares aboutHave you ever noticed how common it is for newspapers to back up their words […]
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Some Sources say in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 3 years, 2 months agoHave you ever noticed how common it is for newspapers to back up their words with “some sources say”? I have. They never say which sources so it could be anyone (or no one).
This was the inspiration behind […]
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Blog: Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi review – all aboard the mystery train from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoA couple’s romantic journey turns into a trip of a different sort in this dazzling if inscrutable novelIt may be laden with whimsical details and witticisms, but t […]
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Blog: The Book of Emotions review – how does it feel? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoEditor Edgar Gerrard Hughes’s volume of quizzes, ideas, tests and tricks is an amusing – and sometimes alarming – diversionThere is a sense in which we are all b […]
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Blog: Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love by Huma Qureshi review – tales of everyday tragedy from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoYoung women of Pakistani heritage struggle to connect with their partners and mothers in an evocative and striking collectionHuma Qureshi has the perfect title for […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Writing dare: Have the characters drop everything to engage in a rap battle in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoIf you feel like you have got “flo” maybe your characters could engage in a rap battle. If you can’t rhyme for toffee, maybe the characters are much worse than they imagine.
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Blog: I Read Stories: All The Stars by Lori Sambol Brody from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoAll the Stars by Lori Sambol Brody in Milk Candy Review In a house in the hills of Los Angeles it’s possible to see the homes of some of the stars, Viggo M […]
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Blog: Art and Climate from
Neil Gaiman's Journal in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoposted by Neil Gaiman
I really ought to blog about making Good Omens (we’re in week 4 of shooting) and making Anansi Boys (starts shooting next week), and about […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Writing dare: Exclusively use the numbers 1 to 25 inclusive in order in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoCan you hide a count up (or down) in your text by including numbers that increase (or decrease) over the narrative segment or chapter?
Some easy cases might include:
Mentioning the time or date.”A table […]
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Blog: I Watch TV: Swamp Thing from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoSwamp Thing Dr Abby Arcane works for the CDC and when a mysterious “green flu” strikes her hometown of Marais in the swamps of Louisiana she has to confront her […]
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Writing dare: Include all these items in one scene in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoPhoto by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com
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Blog: from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agozaprowsdower27:
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Okay. Just this once. Take 2 of the Gavotte.We are in a discreet gentleman’s club in Portland Place, in the 1880s, a […]
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoneil-gaiman:
Okay. Just this once. Take 2 of the Gavotte.We are in a discreet gentleman’s club in Portland Place, in the 1880s, and somebody has invented a m […]
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Blog: Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn audiobook review – post-human landscapes from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoFrom Chernobyl to remote Scotland, Flyn brings to life areas that have been abandoned by people and recolonised by nature, plus the rest of the week’s picksA v […]
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Blog: The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoCosmogramma by Courttia Newland; The Love Makers by Aifric Campbell; The Second Shooter by Nick Mamatas; Dead Relatives by Lucie McKnight Hardy; and Under the […]
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Blog: Blanked verse: the power of erasure poetry from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoPoets have been constructing new work by selectively redacting others’ texts for decades, but Instagram and our political moment have spotlit this startling t […]
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Blog: Jason Reynolds: “Reading rap lyrics made me realise that poetry could be for me” from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoThe American YA author on discovering Stephen King, growing into Toni Morrison – and the perfect novelMy earliest reading memoryI remember Maurice Sendak’s Whe […]
