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- 20:54 allo tweeps. yes i am still here. will be back to normal twittering asap #
- 20:56 welcome new followers! i am pretty quiet atm but it ain't always so. and watch out for @littlefluffycat -- she's too nice to be true! #
- 20:58 did not escape from Waterstones bookless today. bought xmas present for dad, and history book for meeeeeee! #
- 21:05 fortunately the staff in Waterstones seem to understand that you should just be left to stroke the books #
- 21:26 IC has reopened the self-service buffet in the hall by burrowing into a bag of shopping. bad IC #
- 22:56 all together now tweeps: KITTTTEENNNNNN! #
- 23:21 RT @bookviewcafe Today's Special from Vonda N. McIntyre: new chapter in Superluminal - read it for free at www.bookviewcafe.com #
- 10:44 one good thing about autumn--russet apples! #
- 13:32 oh well lunch won't cook itself #
- 15:40 RT @littlefluffycat Make Friday GUD. Really GUD. Pay what you want! tr.im/gudpwyw #
- 13:37 allo twitter #
- 14:27 sniffing out book decay: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8355888.stm #
- 14:33 RT @charabbott: "I'm fed up with seeing some of our best novelists written off as 'chick lit'": bit.ly/2Qp6MG #
- 16:01 love it when RC and IC sit and wait for their snackses #
- 20:16 one end of the biscuit in my mouth and the other end in IC's. couldn't fight him off for laughing! #
- 21:48 asking about fiction markets got me share spam grrr #
- 01:49 RT @gudmagazine psst. want some GUD? some _great_ GUD? Pay what you want! tr.im/gudpwyw // longer post later ;) #
- 12:51 a novel without conflict is an ice-cream cone with no ice-cream #
- 20:56 would just like to wave at my Twitter friends. still reeling from the blow life dealt me, but haven't forgotten you. #
- 21:41 mmmmm....custard tart with extra nutmeg.....mmmmm #
- 21:11 driving unfamiliar roads in the dark and fog is quite stressful enough without YOU honking from behind, thx driver! #
- 13:01 doing some dull but necessary admin over at #gudmagazine #
- 13:47 RT @thebookslut Elizabeth Kolbert on why Superfreakonomic's global warming section is "horseshit." is.gd/4QTEc #
- 14:53 RT @nicolamorgan: For clarity, since certain ppl have misrepresented me I said u shld NOT have sex with editor. As in NOT. Got it? //not yet #
- 18:49 RT @ColleenLindsay Dear writers: When you submit a Word doc as a partial or full, turn off the track changes first. #pubtips #
- 21:20 they're just going to ignore European law? oh yeah, that'll work.... #
- 21:22 i'm thinking that the amount of research done into this CH4 mockumentary was about five minutes on youtube #
- 21:25 husband has decided enuff is enuff. we are no longer watching mockumentary #
- 21:30 husband and i seem to have swapped cats. he has IC; i have RC #
- 21:37 now the food bowls have cats #
- 22:47 IC looks like a ginger polar bear cub #
- 12:07 so what is the age of consent where Bella lives then? #
- 21:53 fed the fuzzies cos they were being so good, sitting by their bowls. is this new cat strategy? #
- 23:35 sometimes think it would be nice to be able to block hashtags #
- 23:37 cluster-something #
- 23:43 IC just carried off my monkey nut. i hadn't even finished cracking the shell. #
- 00:00 almost midnight. IC is still playing happily with the monkey nut he stole from me. amazing because he usually gets bored quickly. #
- 00:00 always difficult to know what a cat's favourite toy is going to be. RC's is squeegees. #
- 11:53 nearly got caught by a facebook phish. phew. narrow escape! #
- 20:07 I like this video by @timmaughan twitvid.com/65EC9 #
- 22:31 RT @TomYHowe It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ~ Jonathan Swift #
- 13:50 followees? #
- 14:07 IC is sleeping on my arm #
- 14:09 #ff @littlefluffycat because she's irresistible #
- 14:09 #ff @hprw because she has all the snow, baby #
- 14:09 #ff @nicolamorgan for the cool shoes #
- 14:09 #ff @harbles and @sockington because everyone needs to follow at least one cat #
- 14:13 #ff @bevrosenbaum and @beeveebee and @mbranesf and @robinmckinley and heck work it out for yourselves ;) #
- 14:14 you can't be born a writer if you're born illiterate. which we all are. ahem. #
- 14:15 and #ff @KateMayfield and you must follow @suelange and oh dear! so many great tweeps #
- 14:17 still trying to catch up with new followers :D to whom, welcome! RC is Resident Cat, IC is Intruder Cat, and GUD is a magazine! :D #
- 14:19 hey, new followers, if you've protected your tweets and there's nothing in your bio, i'm not going to send a request cos i don't know you! #
- 14:22 and #ff Donna_Carrick and @inkyelbows and @NadiaLee and @JoTreggiari and the wonderful @magneticcrow and @PrecisionGrace #
- 14:22 and, of course, #ff @gudmagazine and @kaolinfire :D #
- 14:22 sorry, i meant #ff @Donna_Carrick ! #
- 14:34 can't flip thro a .pdf. most annoying #
- 14:46 #fridayreads #fembook Installing Linux On A Dead Badger by the irrepressible @lucyasnyder and Beth Bernobich's Ars Memoriae #
- 14:55 thx to everyone who thinks sqrls are worth following :D they have their moments of quietude but they don't last #
- 15:26 is it wrong to mark as spam emails reporting non-delivery of spam? #
- 16:03 i think if you're just quietly reading a book, life should not suddenly thwap you with something bad #
- 18:42 ok, i have a weird problem with facebook. it keeps adding duplicates to urls. so if i'm going to the home page, it adds home.php twice. why? #
- 18:52 and none of the report-a-bug categories seem appropriate #
- 19:28 *closes facebook* *sulks* #
- 19:34 welcome new followers! IC is Intruder Cat and RC is Resident Cat and hey @truthisstranger i love your avatar :D #
- 22:31 #ff @Janet_Reid cos she's sharky #
- 23:09 okay fb so it's a known issue, but meanwhile my crops are withering! er, did i just write that? #
- 23:20 RC is snoozling on the computer chair but i don't know where IC is. judging from lack of yelling he is not helping husband with his photos #
- 12:44 RT @MJRose I'm getting paranoid. PW picks all male best bks Oprah picks all male bkclubs bks Glen Beck picks all male thriller writers WTF?? #
- 13:13 it's a shame to disturb a small fuzzy IC who's been loving me since midday, but food! must have food! #
- 13:17 oh dear i've been reinfested #
- 13:35 it passes belief that PW could engage in a gender-blind assessment and not choose a single book by a woman #fembook it ain't possible #
- 14:04 who the hell lets off fireworks at two in the afternoon? #
- 14:51 labels like 'women's lit' bug me #fembook like all other literature is for men? who are they kidding? #
- 15:25 #amwriting blurb for issue6. in theory. #
- 16:08 gah. hate this MUST DO IT NOW feeling when i *can't* do it now #
- 16:11 hah! gotcha! sheesh, Murky Depths #10 arrived today and i haven't had a chance to open it yet.... #
- 16:13 i meant of course @lucyasnyder's escaping book. which has now been recaptured. #
- 16:14 RT @bookviewcafe Today's Special from Ursula K. Le Guin: Supermouse! - read it for free at www.bookviewcafe.com #
- 17:27 apparently when i found @lucyasnyder's book i lost my phone #
- 19:28 i think i need two clones of self. one can review books while the other cleans the house #
- 19:52 seem to be developing some kind of book cult around here #
- 20:05 IC curious about fireworks, but not scared (so far) #
- 23:23 minor panic here at castle sqrl: opened the front door and IC shot out into the night. wow this is fun thinks IC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH #
- 23:24 IC has now been recaptured. phew #
- 23:25 don't think i've ever shrieked husband's name that way before. not even when he pinned me against caravan with LandRover #
- 23:28 wouldn't have been quite so upset had it not been the *front* door that has a drive and then a Very Busy Road. oh foolish IC #
- 00:00 #fridayreads #fembook read @lucyasnyder 's Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, hilarious short stories! #
- 12:25 sent out contracts for issue6 of #gudmagazine !!!! #
- 12:54 and having to send the contracts for #gudmagazine iss6 out again, cos i made a small mistake. all right, a large mistake! live and learn :D #
- 13:32 bless the little contracts #
- 13:32 hehehe. yes, sadly, it was the people who were quickest who were affected. #
- 16:31 RT @jodimeadows: Eee! Look, guys! It's @robinmckinley! Please go make her feel welcome. Then buy her books. #
- 16:37 Say NO to negativity #
- 16:43 RT @AskAVetQuestion: Know anyone whose dog has Degenerative Myelopathy? Help! bit.ly/Zmzqe #
- 20:05 serious case of book love in Waterstones today. check it out: tinyurl.com/ybvehcu #
- 20:43 husband is valiantly working around the cat planted directly in front of the monitor. it's IC, of course. #
- 21:34 conversations chez sqrl: me: out of the way, fuzzball! IC: nom nom nom me: stop biting my feeeet! #
- 10:33 good morning twitter #
- 11:32 #gudmagazine announces its Grand Pumpkin-Carving Contest winners! tinyurl.com/ye7fnpf admire! congratulate! :D (pls RT) #
- 12:10 RT @simonschusterUK CALLING REVIEWERS! Do you review history books in your blog? A fan of the Crusades? If so, dm email address? PLS RT! #
- 12:13 CafeNirvana
RT @CafeNirvana OMG gggrbblsshh *died from cuteness* RT @ICHCheezburger: Video: Newspaper Kitteh bit.ly/47Qqq2 // awww # - 12:37 a character needs to be a person not a list of traits #gudslush #
- 12:41 don't start with a description of a character laced with backstory. start with a character in a situation #gudslush #
- 21:23 can't help wondering why i feel as if i've been steam-rollered. repeatedly. #
- 21:27 hey, winners of the #gudmagazine #gudhalloween grand pumpkin carvery, why are you not emailing us to demand your prizes??????? #
- 21:31 i meant @hprw #
- 22:29 dear @littlefluffycat i shall try to send you your prize again tomorrow *hugs* #
- 01:14 amityville horror is very silly film #
- 10:05 good morning twitterites. sqrl is here. thankyou everyone who tried to help with Strange Vertical Lines :) i will report later #
- 10:42 sometimes poetry could use a little show too #gudslush #
- 11:13 POV slips can undermine an otherwise good piece. try to stick with one viewpoint character at a time #gudslush #
- 11:32 stating the obvious isn't very engaging #gudslush #
- 11:42 fuzzies have disappeared again. guess the lack of food didn't engage them #
- 11:45 FOCUS #gudslush #
- 11:48 glib can work for a character, but it doesn't work for the narrator...and what a subject to be glib about! #gudslush #
- 11:51 fascinating story idea, but the writing lets it down :( #gudslush #
- 11:56 sweet story, but not well enough written, alas #gudslush #
- 11:58 it's a story, not doggerel. watch out for repeating rhythms, constructions, word choices.... #gudslush #
- 12:01 umm, well, writer tweep, i hate to contradict you, but no we're not #gudslush #
- 13:37 i shouldn't be so exhausted. i know i've had a cold but it wasn't a bad one #
- 14:24 need.foood, #
- 15:10 IC is very clingy today. But not too clingy to investigate Spooky and Suspicious Noises #
- 15:21 now IC has boinged off once more and i can type, i've forgotten what the heck i was meant to be doing #
- 15:53 no FireFox dear you cannot have ALL the memory #
- 17:47 RT @PuffChrissy My book is available as PDF w/ 5 stories not in print version. $5. PayPal button at the bottom of my site: www.cadumais.com #
- 17:54 evidently at the top of my to-do list for today is 'snuggle IC. a lot' #
- 17:57 tomorrow #gudmagazine will announce the winners of its Grand Pumpkin-Carving Contest! just time to enter tho...tinyurl.com/yfh6nl5 #
- 22:44 *waves limply to twitter* #
- 23:38 the return of the sqrl icon, as promised #
- 00:29 so when it comes to these different-coloured vertical lines on the screen to my laptop, what's failing? screen or graphics card? #
- 10:36 people have feelings. they react. they are not senseless stones #gudslush #
- 10:37 seems IC and RC have done enough running around for one day. they started about six am and have just stopped #
- 10:43 now IC wants to snuggle #
- 10:44 ugh, mixed metaphors taste bad. stick to mixed drinks #gudslush #
- 11:13 #amwriting a blogpost for #gudmagazine #
- 12:16 okay #gudhalloween blogpost written! there's going to be lots more goodies for y'all :D #
- 12:17 don't forget our #gudhalloween Monster Quiz tinyurl.com/yf6gjoj -- it's a lot of fun! and there are fantastic illos by @magneticcrow #
- 12:18 not to mention the #gudhalloween Pumpkin-Carving Contest, with prizes! tinyurl.com/yfh6nl5 real or virtual, carve to win :D #
- 12:19 and for #gudhalloween we're running reviews of Horror or just plain spooky stories all month--this week, Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca #
- 12:20 it's going to be a great #gudhalloween :D #
- 12:23 lol, that's almost halved my to-do list for #gudmagazine :) now back to the #gudslush i guess! #
- 12:31 ideas were good, but the writing wasn't strong enough to carry them. shame. #gudslush #
- 12:38 find a way to work in character descriptions while still telling the story #gudslush #
- 12:39 what's with all the MAKE MONEY followers today? piss off! #
- 12:44 show don't tell. and some knowledge of how humans tick is useful. really. #gudslush #
- 12:49 i am speechless at the badness of that #gudslush #
- 12:51 please, dear tweeps, #gudmagazine is a genre/literary magazine. that is what it is. it is not...what many of you seem to *think* it is #
- 12:58 what's this in the post? Ransom, by David Malouf. i'm going to be reviewing this for @BookMunch :D cool! #
- 12:59 *pat pats shiny review book* #
- 13:02 cut it any way you like, exposition-as-dialogue does not work #gudslush #
- 13:24 this is the direction your story should go -------> not BACKWARDS unless you're super-special-non-linear tweep #gudslush #
- 13:26 something has to happen #gudslush #
- 13:33 firefox dear, if you must crash, please do it more quickly! #
- 13:35 yes, very pretty, but what does it *mean*? #gudslush #
- 13:36 not *not* NOT in the mood for oh-so-clever #gudslush #
- 13:37 what did i just say to you MONEY MONEY MONEY types? do you even glance at who you're annoying? #
- 13:44 *locks wannabe writer tweeps in a library* now go READ something #gudslush #
- 13:48 look, writer tweeps, maybe 80% of you do have issues with women, but i don't want to read about them in #gudslush quit with the mysogny #
- 13:50 for one thing, it's so bleeding lazy #gudslush misogyny is what I see ALL THE TIME and guess what i reject it all the time too #
- 13:53 i would carp about male stereotypes too but i see hundreds of whores sluts slags moaning nagging wives sexy male fantasies #gudslush for 1 m #
- 13:54 okay, back to the #gudslush #
- 13:59 #gudslush please writer tweeps please learn the homophones #
- 14:13 show don't tell. don't tell, show. is there a way of saying it that'll be heard? :D #gudslush #
- 14:14 today is Skunk Day. be kind to your skunk. (not THAT kind of skunk, fools) #
- 14:22 FOCUS #gudslush #
- 14:26 think i need a break from the #gudslush before i explode into nasty sqrl pieces #
- 14:42 i am speechless with the notbeinglistenedto #
- 14:51 *revokes poetic licence* #gudslush #
- 12:40 *blinks sleepily* #
- 22:05 fbook lost my cow #
- 22:06 yes, i realise that is not the sort of post my beloved followers want to read. and why has there been no #gudslush ? server wonks and .... #
- 22:06 ...lotsa work preparing the #gudhalloween giveaways :) #gudslush will return! #
- 22:26 IC is playing with a grape #
- 08:30 we may not all agree on whether it's one space or two after fullstop, but surely we all agree on one space between words? #gudslush nope #
- 08:33 something has to happen. happen something to has. hello? #gudslush #
- 08:34 interesting how titles are rarely clueful #gudslush #
- 08:36 it doesn't matter whether your characters are humans, puppies or guppies. they have to be *real* #gudslush #
- 08:44 IC was exploring his pet carrier...until it slid onto the floor. now IC is nowhere to be seen! #
- 08:46 srsly, whose POV are we in here? #gudslush #
- 09:05 IC has not reappeared. better check he's okay #
- 09:13 and he's fine #
- 09:24 not badly written, but goes nowhere #gudslush #
- 09:28 dear writer tweep, you killed it with that info-dump #gudslush #
- 09:40 that sort of slow start isn't wrong as such, but it's not what's wanted these days #gudslush #
- 09:43 oh dear me no #gudslush #
- 09:48 dear writer tweeps, many of you need to read more widely. some of you need to read at all #gudslush #
- 09:52 and if you want to be writers, read critically. it ain't just for fun any more. #gudslush #
- 09:57 hmm, well, yes, it is good to have stakes, but they should be probably be introduced earlier, and someone should care.... #gudslush #
- 12:57 now i'm being followed by a bedspread. shall i introduce it to the printer? #
- 12:58 i was born in the West but it's purely occidental #
- 18:17 spammers have discovered skype. ffs. #
- 19:10 dear @magneticcrow your illos for the #gudhalloween monster quiz are awesome! thank you so much! #
- 21:47 today for #gudhalloween we bring you more spooky goodies! The GUD Halloween Monster Quiz--What GUD Monster are YOU? tr.im/monsterquiz #
- 21:48 and also for #gudhalloween we have GUD's review of Midnight Picnic by GUD contributor Nick Antosca (iss3) tinyurl.com/yhyvv7c #
- 21:49 The #gudhalloween Monster Quiz--What GUD Monster are YOU? tr.im/monsterquiz please RT! :) #
- 21:49 and next week for #gudhalloween we bring you giveaways! #
- 21:50 not to mention our #gudhalloween pumpkin-carving contest, with prizes! tinyurl.com/yfh6nl5 #gudhalloween is non-stop! pls RT! #
- 21:51 don't forget it's #gudhalloween! :D #
- 21:51 The spooky and fun #gudhalloween Monster Quiz--What GUD Monster are YOU? tr.im/monsterquiz please RT! :) #
- 21:58 are you a dragon? a squid? a...demon? Find out! tr.im/monsterquiz #
- 23:10 #oneletteroffliterarymagazines GUT #
- 23:41 IC is fast asleep on the printer #
- 23:43 RT @victoriastrauss looking to hear from authors who've published with an author mill. For definition see bit.ly/48smaO Pls retweet! #
- 00:23 IC still very funny shape #
"The sea, the sea!" monster: You're a Humboldt squid from A Man of Kiri Maru by Laura L. Sullivan from Issue 4. Mostly you live a quiet squiddy life, but occasionally you have to decide whether to accept a man who's been chained up or just bite off his dangly bits with your beak. Decisions, decisions. What GUD Monster are you? Find out at GUD Magazine! |  |
- 22:16 had my jab against seasonal flu today which i guess proves i am even more scared of flu than of needles. whew! #
- 22:17 the #gudhalloween quiz has had its code corrected by @kaolinfire and now we're just waiting for the illos from @magneticcrow. happy samhain! #
- 22:38 police to search for non-existent conspirators of not-guilty 'bomber' in Lockerbie bombing. useful. #
- 23:09 so i went into Waterstones to get FlashForward and came out with three books. how is this possible? #
- 23:36 latest iPhone app--IC's paw #
- 23:38 Welcome any new followers and b-bye to any unfollowers :D RC is Resident Cat, IC is Intruder Cat, and #gudmagazine is awesome #
- 00:03 all you pumpkin-carvers out there, don't forget GUD's #gudhalloween contest: tinyurl.com/yfh6nl5 pls RT :) #
- 01:09 sorry FarmVille friends game won't let me send gifts atm #
- 12:23 today i am channelling my techy sister. husband: Liiinux. me: Linnux. husband: Liiinux. me: Linnux. why! #
- 22:28 i am ignoring #gudslush on the principle that it's Saturday #
- 00:46 RT @clarkesworld: I may have to add this to our guidelines. Please stop sending us stories about dead, undead, or soon-to-be dead babies! #
