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Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Its just a stage you were going through...."

Now Ive got a song fragment stuck in my head but I've no idea what the song is.

Argh!

Got it, thank gawd.

It's 10cc I'm Not in Love.

Would have bugged me all day if I'd not googled the song fragment.

Argh, now I have it stuck in my head!

Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgep...

There are worse songs to have stuck in your head. I must admit I didn't pick up the song reference straight away. Maybe because the line in the song is about a "silly phase you're going through".

Phase, stage, page - it's all the same!

I've never said my brain makes sense, Will.

Nor mine!

There is a knock at the door at 10 pm. Do you answer it or pretend that you're not at home?

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In days of yore, when the inspiration flowed freely, I would have written a song about you. And I have an irish accent. But this days, all I can manage is doggerel.

Will was in his pjs
telly cued and drink in cup
When a knocking at the front door
got him bothered and stirred up
It was a drunken young 'un
with a tongue of irish gold
He was looking for his friends
who had left him in the cold
He rang his dear old mammy,
who in Hull was miles away
Our Will lived in Godalming
And the young man couldn't say
where he currently was living
But after much deep thought
He stuttered out 'Its Farncombe'
and the route he now was taught
he said 'Will you're a good man'
as he staggered on his way
And Will was left bewildered
till policemen came to say
The young man and Will's neighbours
had had a meeting too
And Will is left to wonder
What on earth the lad did do?

And his name was David, unsurprisingly.

It's always the Davids.

Yep - you can't trust a David.

Gingerlily - thank you, thank you, thank you!

Now all I need to do is hire a band and a singer, and we're good to go.

Was or were? A little adventure in grammar and editing.

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Now I REALLY want some sizzling spam fritters, mess tin or not!

It's about the only thing you can do to spam to make it bearable!

We used to have it for breakfast when I was still living at home. I liked it thin and crispy with a fried egg.

I remember spam from when I was a student. It seemed safer than the mystery meat from the market.

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "We used to have it for breakfast when I was still living at home. I liked it thin and crispy with a fried egg."

MMMMmmmmmm - I like it thin and crispy too!

Be still my beating heart - someone has asked for my autograph!

I can't bring myself to put pen to paper. So is there another way ... ?

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love it

Thanks! I must admit I never expected to be asked for an autograph. I didn't think people did that sort of thing any more.

How do you write fiction?

Well, how do we write fiction? It's a simple question which is far from easy to answer.

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nicely put

Bookmarked - sometimes people ask.

A follow up to the blog about writing fiction.

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my mileage might vary

I suspect that everyone's will!

The latest in a series about writing fiction. Today we're looking at how to write characters

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Woo! That was a long time away. I've got a new job, which means the daily train commute into London. Writing has had to take a back seat for a while.

Here's a blog about names ...

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You could write during the commute?

My surname has two ls and two ts in it.

I've encountered every permutation of it on documents over the years.

I loathe when my name is spelled Patty. Grr

I can sometimes write in the commute, on my much loved and much used ipad mini. Don't always feel in the mood for it, though.

This thing about names does hack me off. We each know what our own name is, so why do other people think they know better than us?

That's why the pen name is Will Once. Let's see the buggers mangle that!

Wile Yonce?

There's always one ... ;-)

Vile Yonk?

Won't twice.

Hello ... again (Iong story). Hope everyone is fit and well.

A little story about posh nosh...

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A sort of writing update. Where I've been for the past year when I haven't been here.

https://willonce.wordpress.com/2019/0...

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but it might be a little soon for the congrats. It's only a nibble ... the merest peck on the cheek.

I started by giving them the first three chapters. Then they asked for the full manuscript ... and it's the full manuscript that they want to show to publishers.

So there was no getting out of it, I'm afraid. I had to rewrite the whole book.

I believe it is assumed, when you submit a partial, that the complete ms. is available - beginning writers rarely get requests for partials.

Interesting Will,
Hope it goes well for you
Don't worry, when you're really famous, you can publish the other two as well and your fans will snap them up so they've got the 'complete works' :-)

Alicia - that's my understanding too. I started out by sending the first three chapters as a taster but I had to have the rest of the book ready to send in case I got a bite.

Jim - thanks. Now there's an interesting thought!

In which Chloe learns that the world ain't fair. But sometimes it can be better than fair.

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love it :-)

Was there enough foreplay in Game of Thrones?

Warning: spoilers. And stuff about Game of Thrones.

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Interesting blog, although I confess I've not seen the programme or read the books

It's an interesting experience. I've read the first of the books and mostly enjoyed it. But I've seen all of the television shows and thoroughly enjoyed it.

There is something really special about a story that takes over 60 hours to tell, particularly when it's done well. You can get to nuances of character than you can't get with many other mediums. Worth a look.

But ... it raises huge expectations about how to end such a massive story.

The problem is, for those of us who weren't in at the beginning is that knowing the end and knowing how disputed it was, rather begs the question of why we would set off on the journey. The whole thing is now so riddled with spoilers (everybody dies, all the time etc) that I struggle to find the enthusiasm, especially when it would be time taken from books that haven't been spoiled

All good valid points, my friend. I would also add in the gratuitous sex and violence and the fantasy setting, which isn't for everyone.

But still ... it is one of the rare instance of a story (novel, movie, TV show) that made me go "wow!"

And maybe that's not anything unique to Game of Thrones. Maybe it's an advantage that a well-funded television mini series has over other art forms. A writer can do things with characters over a long period that simply isn't possible in a shorter medium.

Fashions change. I think the main take away from Game of Thrones is not that the series itself is good. It's that the medium can give us things we haven't seen.