• 15:07 okay, this is a dumb question, but why do knickers always have lace around the crotch? always rubs me raw hate it hate hate hate! #
• 15:09 read my MD slush; have no ASIM slush (shome mishtake there shurely?); #GUDslush here i come! #
• 15:22 the end of a story should be implicit in its beginning; stories should not just stop; please give stories satisfying endings k thx #GUDslush #
• 15:23 with other staffers helping me out with #GUDslush i can return to my backlog of emails to authors YAY #
• 15:30 am sending staff emails to the wrong address again! bad sqrl #
• 15:36 it's a sad truth that something i like on first reading may not hold up under a second; strangely, art i tend to like more #GUDslush #
• 15:54 Thames Water boss admits privatisation has led to higher water bills tinyurl.com/locbc6 #
• 16:06 lots of staff frownies on things i smileyed; hard to work out who's got the better insight into what works and what doesn't #GUDslush #
• 16:07 sigh, now Twitter have made following followers updates longer, they don't fit in their sidebar no more; very ugly that is too twits! #
• 16:16 sent out an acceptance today :); always makes me feel warm inside! #GUDslush #
• 16:20 and another acceptance! i'm on a roll! #GUDslush #
• 19:48 have eighteen definites for GUD Issue #6; one pending confirmation and a lot of maybes #GUDslush #
• 19:58 why is it sometimes so hard to make a decision re a story you like? do i like it ENOUGH? are there better stories in #GUDslush? gah #
• 23:40 love it when back-and-forth with author results in acceptance! woot! #GUDslush #
• 23:44 please pick a tense and stick with it for at least a paragraph k thx bai #GUDslush #
• 23:59 just a reminder for artists hoping to submit to GUD: cover art for issue #6 has been purchased; interior art will be grayscaled #GUDslush #
• 00:06 still trying to squeeze more stuff into issue 6 than will ever fit #GUDslush #
• 00:20 twenty-one items chosen for Issue 6 (2 still to be confirmed by contribs); ninety pages; 19 items in "maybe"; 63 items in #GUDslush #
• 09:33 sixteen new slushies in #GUDslush :) withdrawal of a story i liked made me sad today #
• 09:38 ASIM 39 has landed! wooo! #
• 09:40 part of the fun of ASIM is seeing which, if any, stories in any issue are ones I slushed; sometimes i have read almost all the mag already! #
• 09:48 dear writer tweeps, there are some subjects you must treat with Great Care and Sensitivity as they are triggering #GUDslush #
• 10:01 story first. explanation later. #GUDslush #

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• 10:49 does nobody out there have a copy of PKD's Gather Yourselves Together they'd be prepared to sell to me for less than my soul? *sniff* #
• 11:18 a young friend on GR has decided they don't feel comfortable with someone they don't know; am sad but respect their need to feel safe #
• 11:22 worries me though that many adults on GR are concerned about issues around friending younger members; who will if those who care won't? #
• 11:36 ooh, didn't know you could #followfriday @newscientist was just reading this week's issue! #
• 11:36 well, have been trying to read theory of mind article for last twenty minutes...halfway thro #
• 11:37 "...language contributes to a mature theory of mind." interesting #
• 11:38 *beats head against wall* simplified science articles are often Very Annoying; yes, NS, *some* serial killers plan; others are disorganised #
• 13:03 stupid New Scientist always making Big Expensive Books look irresistible! #
• 14:12 dear writer tweeps, please note that a series of scenes showing me x feels y is more effective than paragraphs of telling me #GUDslush #
• 14:26 okay writer tweeps, please take All The Good Advice you've ever had about openings and apply it to endings As Well k thx bai #GUDslush #
• 14:35 character meets obstacle. character gives up. editor stops reading. #GUDslush #
• 14:36 dear writer tweeps, you are not pirates! you are allowed to use the conditional #GUDslush #
• 14:37 please RT: the first person to tell me the origin of the previous comment re: pirates and the conditional gets a free .pdf of GUD DM me #
• 15:11 my turn today to forget to turn the oven off. gah, smoky! #
• 01:31 does anyone know if Wildside magazine/anthology Cat Tales is still alive? can't find much by searching #
• 01:48 wish duotrope would make it possible to exclude children's markets from searches or is it there and i'm missing it? #

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• 12:32 it's too hot for the cat outside, and too boring inside; poor cat! #
• 12:51 so...we've played with our ball, raced outside, come back, and are now sitting quietly on the back of the sofa; it can't last #
• 13:00 either the cat's tongue looks black cos it's a weird angle, or....wtf? #
• 13:01 ok, weird angle, phew! #
• 13:12 la kitten has gone to sleep. awww #
• 08:01 several strangenesses in #GUDslush this week, including two unique ones--a missing file (i thought that impossible!) and well can't say :D #
• 08:18 sigh, if i block someone, i don't want to still see them on my followers' page; i really don't #
• 08:59 it was necessary last night for the cat to hunt a moth A LOT. she would have got it too had it not been on the other side of the window #
• 09:03 why did that story not work for me? it went almost straight to exposition and backstory; need to do more to keep reader interest #GUDslush #
• 09:12 a common homophone error in the first line does not inspire confidence; don't go to a job interview with odd socks! #GUDslush #

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• 10:53 i don't have to go count the slush today, do i? #GUDslush #
• 12:28 after software upgrade, miPhone went "vrrt vrrt"; good or bad? :D #
• 15:49 okay Guddies, there'll be no #GUDslush today; i just have to knuckle down and clear it out. sorry! #
• 18:53 meh. too many bad slushies #GUDslush *dies* #
• 07:44 too many bloody females in this scene! too many she's! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh #
• 09:16 okay writer tweeps, I am putting this on the line now: I AM OFFICIALLY SICK OF STORIES THAT JUST STOP; no ending=NO SALE #
• 09:16 okay writer tweeps, I am putting this on the line now: I AM OFFICIALLY SICK OF STORIES THAT JUST STOP; no ending=NO SALE #GUDslush #
• 09:29 writer tweeps! give endings some love! #GUDslush they're as important as those beginnings you polish to a sheen #
• 09:51 that word doesn't mean what you think it means #GUDslush #
• 09:58 103 items in #GUDslush and that's *after* a whole load of work gah #

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• 13:06 why do i have this sinking feeling that the 'debate' won't involve asking the women what THEY think? tinyurl.com/lmaead #
• 17:10 ouch my feet hurt #

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• 10:11 cat has discovered planes. just so long as she doesn't try hunting them #
• 10:16 focus! #GUDslush #
• 10:53 too much build-up for too little payoff; balance! #GUDslush #
• 11:02 i know it's radical, but a story should have a story #GUDslush #
• 11:06 i've ceased to care #GUDslush #
• 11:09 i need to stop slushing for a bit #GUDslush #
• 11:48 i see the fuchsia is flowering; the clematis still hasn't choked it to death #
• 13:41 what about lovely ancient Latin? nospacesbetweenthewords #

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• 20:58 *waves at the tweeple before mysteriously disappearing again* #
• 08:27 *blinks* hey, who's this other #GUDslush who's appeared on the scene? eh? :D #
• 08:29 seventy-five unslushed slushies in #GUDslush oh woes #
• 09:04 srsly, something needs to happen #GUDslush #
• 09:05 if a character mentions that they're not interested in [whatever], you'd better hope my immediate reaction isn't, "me neither" #GUDslush #
• 09:08 find out which are the most hackneyed openings; if you've found out and think it's different when it's you, think again #GUDslush #
• 09:11 *uses blowtorch on Special Snowflakes* not so bleeding special any more! #GUDslush #
• 09:17 well lookit here, what are those? tinyurl.com/68c5uk i do believe they're submission guidelines! and not hidden at all! #GUDslush #
• 09:29 start with a character in a situation, not twenty minutes before they get into the situation #GUDslush #
• 09:32 if you despise your characters, do you really think i'll want to read about them? #GUDslush #
• 09:46 something.must.happen. #GUDslush #
• 09:50 oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear #GUDslush #
• 09:52 exposition as dialogue is still exposition; try harder #GUDslush #

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• 12:09 answering GUD emails...mostly either Read the Guidelines (RTG) or We Don't Do That. #
• 12:39 trend towards more upbeat stories could be fatal to sqrl career #
• 12:42 weird M2 incident tinyurl.com/m3thmt yesterday; we were lucky to be warned off the motorway before joining 2-hour wait #

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• 13:03 nineteen new slushies in #GUDslush #
• 07:10 thirty-three unslushed slushies in #GUDslush this is what i get for being out of the office since 2pm yesterday #

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• 13:16 now a power cut; methinks the universe is conspiring to keep me off twitter #
• 13:20 show support for democracy in Iran; go back to 1950s and prevent Britain and United States destroying it #
• 13:21 #squarespace obviously do want to give me an iPhone; it's just they're confusing me with other people #
• 13:23 i see pyramid schemes are alive and well and have acquired Shiny New Ethical Veneer; still a pyramid scheme tho #
• 13:54 forty-nine unslushed slushies in #GUDslush #
• 13:54 cat wants to know why, if she's not meant to hunt bees, they're so tantalising #
• 13:58 the more obvious, the less interesting #GUDslush #
• 14:01 story does not go: scene; huge chunk of research; bit that's actually interesting; another huge chunk of research; action #GUDslush #
• 14:06 whenever i get an ow. type file through twitter, the media in it never work, bah #
• 14:08 oops! just left the "a" off the end of a contrib's name; makes a slight difference.... #
• 14:12 give me no reasons to like your character and, amazingly, i won't #GUDslush #
• 14:30 engage the reader, then fill them in #GUDslush #
• 14:32 to reiterate: if i give you a reason for rejection, it won't be the only reason, nor will it necessarily be the most important one #GUDslush #
• 14:35 every noun its adjective, every verb its adverb...no, i tell you, no! go easy on the modifiers, like salt #GUDslush #
• 15:05 instead of looking at your story from outside, as the author, try looking from inside, as a character #GUDslush #
• 15:26 if you think there's a problem with your submission email editor(at)gudmagazine.com; do not resubmit unless asked #GUDslush #
• 15:27 multiple submissions of the same piece muck up our statistics and make kaolin Very Unhappy #GUDslush #
• 15:59 oh, i need to thank one of our contribs for making me laugh today #GUDslush #
• 16:04 so, to recap; no unicorns, no elves, no diabolical monologues, check; how about gryphons? #askagent @ColleenLindsay #
• 16:08 seventy-five items sitting in #GUDslush some i haven't even managed to read yet #
• 16:43 RT @bengoldacre Blair knew about torture: tr.im/oW2l #
• 18:01 just read some stories for Murky Depths magazine, where I am consultant editor; one was by a dear friend #
• 18:02 hope husband brings some jam home with him; eyeing bread in anticipation #
• 18:03 will never know, but suspect that even with blind slushing i would have recognised author #
• 18:17 waiting for jam! #
• 18:23 put kettle on, in anticipation that husband will remember jam AND milk #
• 18:29 pilot dies at controls of passenger jet: tinyurl.com/ks3m5s #
• 18:42 what husband remembered: milk, jam bread; what husband forgot: tea bags #
• 00:12 Query Shark is on Twitter; i think it's @QueryShark but I don't think EE has found his way here yet! #

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• 10:11 okay, so in this book i'm reading, this street kid doesn't know about the gospels, but he knows the word breviary; huh? #
• 10:59 suppose i should go do some slushing or something useful #
• 11:08 sixty-six unslushed slushies in #GUDslush more slushing less debating! bad sqrl! #
• 11:20 too simplistic; create a detailed sensorium for your character #GUDslush #
• 11:25 there is a bee flying around my living room #
• 11:28 hmmm, i like it, but not enough; often the way #GUDslush #
• 11:45 you don't need to tell me what your story's about; that's the story's job #GUDslush #
• 11:47 evoke, don't just describe; a character is a person to bring to the reader's mind, not a shopping list #GUDslush #
• 11:51 Focus! #GUDslush #
• 11:51 okay, yes, i found that character name cool too, but i know better than to shamelessly borrow it #GUDslush #
• 11:53 show don't tell #GUDslush #
• 12:07 RT @buffysquirrel show don't tell #GUDslush it's the simplest writing guideline; why ignore it? #
• 12:10 the rhymes shouldn't be the first thing i notice about your poem #GUDslush #
• 12:14 would work so much better with a few scenes #GUDslush #
• 12:20 Tories claim they will scrap ID cards if elected; wonder what excuse they'd find for changing their minds if in office #
• 12:33 note to self: do not discuss creativity with @TerriblyTwisted any more; too much self doubt! #
• 12:51 not a good idea to start with a way to let the editor say, "NO" #GUDslush #
• 12:53 start with a character in a situation #GUDslush #
• 13:01 if your character doesn't react believably, then there needs to be a reason why #GUDslush #
• 13:04 hmm, virtual soup not very filling #
• 13:12 am not understanding the US "banned books" idea; to me Spycatcher was a banned book; to them anyone book someone wants to ban, is #
• 13:12 er, any book--would help if i edited my tweets better #
• 13:30 RT @hprw Blog Update: Reported Sales: Selling In vs. Selling Through: There are two different levels of sales.. bit.ly/VfUIH #
• 14:16 can you be cheating at Patience if the app allows your move? #
• 14:18 RT @gudmagazine Do you have a copy of GUD? Like it? Love it? Collect all 5! PDF/Hardcopy waiting for you now! ;) ow.ly/ezYv #
• 15:08 i thought #squarespace were going to give me an iPhone, but perhaps they'd rather not #
• 00:38 deep sqrl unhappiness; why have i suddenly acquired a video from iTunes that i did not order and do not want? #

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• 10:58 what with thunderstorms and internet outages i'm so far behind on reading Twitter that if anyone wants me to know anything, please RT! #
• 11:04 RT @hprw Blog Update: Reader's Reports: When an agent or an editor requests a reader's report on a manuscript.. bit.ly/4JMXq #
• 11:58 hmm, finished my ASIM slush but of course a new lot will be along any second! lol #
• 12:13 be nice to a child today! buy them a Leon Garfield book! #
• 12:18 so...what is criticism? it is active engagement with a creative work, on the basis that the work has a story to tell, and the critic can.... #
• 12:19 ...divine that story, explore the work's layers of meaning, and open it up for others to comprehend in the same way, or react against #
• 12:24 fifty-two unslushed slushies in #GUDslush #
• 12:27 'failure' of critics to agree is an expression of individuality in the response to creativity; it's one person to another; heart to heart #
• 12:27 that's what i meant.... #
• 12:28 don't tell us something then immediately tell us again...we are not those fabled goldfish with their castles #GUDslush #
• 12:31 a thread of a story isn't enough #GUDslush #
• 12:40 don't send me "Final Showing Markup"; it's in your own interest :) #GUDslush #
• 13:04 bit strange when a whole stack of stuff falls down and the cat isn't even in the room #
• 13:12 oh yes quick reminder to #squarespace that they want to give me an iPhone so I can present it to my husband (he wishes!) #
• 13:14 here's a message for all you US commercial types who keep following me: I LIVE IN BRITAIN #
• 13:15 it's Sleepy Time for Cats apparently #
• 13:25 hmm, no longer Sleepy Time for Cats due to Evil Flash Photography #
• 13:42 help GUD Magazine go quarterly and publish more of your great stories--buy a subscription! or at least a copy? don't miss out! #
• 13:43 Issues #0 through #4 of GUD Magazine available in .pdf or gorgeous print; buy yours today #
• 13:45 lawsuits in English courts more of a get-poor-quick scheme than the opposite; wonder if Jacobs' claim is "no win no fee"? #
• 13:46 more sales==more GUD; who's for some great writing, poetry, and art? #
• 13:47 am reminded of two women who sued for defamation re: price label on white goods; believe it cost them £20k to "clear their names" #
• 13:50 another blogger blog i can't post on with any kind of account; blogger hates me! still, go read anyway: tinyurl.com/knlgld #
• 13:53 how did spread get on keyboard? have i been eating bread&jam at the computer again? #
• 13:58 how do tweeple feel about their favourite films? do you watch again and again or keep them for special occasions in case they spoil? #
• 14:34 BA asking staff to work for nothing tinyurl.com/nn3xt4 shame they didn't put any of their previous profits aside for a rainy day #
• 14:35 uh-oh getting that book-buying itch again #
• 14:44 so how far should crazy obsessive PKD collecting go? not as far as £80, anyway! #
• 14:50 61p for a book...£3.99 shipping world is insane :D #
• 14:52 wish eBay would add ISBNs to book listings #
• 14:54 lol, bad www.bookfinder.com you are supposed to find books not DVDs! #
• 14:56 1p for a book and £2.75 shipping more insanity! #
• 14:57 how can anyone sell a new book for 1p? #
• 14:57 must not buy books; must not buy books; must not buy books; ooh, shiny! books! #
• 15:00 saw a book listing on Alibris where the vendor had invented ISBN; book had title from 1 book, picture from another and description from 3rd #
• 15:00 *closes eBay* *glares at Abe* #
• 15:01 if actions are physically impossible, better be writing SFF/Horror #GUDslush #
• 15:03 first make me care, then kill the character #GUDslush #
• 15:58 lotta police cars whizzing to and fro #
• 16:06 RT @victoriastrauss To tweet or not to tweet? Newspapers set rules for staffers' social networking: tinyurl.com/l35psw #
• 16:06 note to self: try to remember you are public face of GUD #
• 16:09 ok US commercial types, as you are still not getting the message that you have nothing to offer me here in the UK, you will be blocked #
• 16:09 dear h or n y h o tt i e s i am not going to RT, follow, or fuck you; GO AWAY #
• 16:14 even more sirens, what the heck? #
• 16:26 Judge Eady strikes again; blogger to be "outed" tinyurl.com/nxvrej #
• 16:30 a paean to textbooks: tinyurl.com/mpaeoj do we remember them with that much love? wondering #
• 16:38 what will it change if i do RT about violence in Iran? #
• 16:41 am not sure i want to help possible revolution in Iran; still remember what happened last time #
• 16:42 obviously i am just old and cynical! #
• 16:52 ah, husband just got in with news there was a bad accident further along our road; that must have been what the fuss was about #
• 17:17 UN unable to deliver food to 9 million Ethiopians for five months tinyurl.com/moawxq ; consequence of war with Eritrea #
• 17:19 "Approximately 70 million people died of famine in the twentieth century, including an estimated 400,000 in Ethiopia in the 1980s." #
• 17:19 tinyurl.com/kmln3p reference for quote below #
• 17:23 that's greater than the population of the United Kingdom #
• 17:43 someone twittered a link to a blog post about dying magazines? and my internet broked and i never got to it...RT anyone? :) #
• 20:02 cat sitting on keyboard, looking around as if wondering where beeping noise is coming from #
• 20:21 just finished unwrapping Barbie Tessa & Mika; quite a challenge for an adult--how do little girls manage? #
• 20:22 ooops, Teresa and Mika #
• 21:47 er, college, lol (a 6th form collage would be...different!) #
• 21:54 so i'm going to have to pay a tax so other people can have fast internet? i'd settle for working internet #
• 00:09 internet keeps going out; for this i'm going to pay tax? #

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So, this is a small photo project I've been working on. Looks like two of the stars are ready for their shoot!



No set, yet. Will probably borrow one of husband's (also his lighting set-up) :D.

The mare is a Breyer model purchased on eBay. I made the halter and lead rope out of some faux leather strips husband had hanging around and using leather glue he bought to repair his jacket. The doll is a Shelly doll wearing a mish-mash of outfits (riding hat from a Cassie doll; t-shirt from I know not where; and trousers from a whistling dwarf). The shoes are not very appropriate but I don't have any better ones atm.

Not sure if she's giving her approval or hoping to be mailed out with the rest of the GUD Issue #4s, lol.

• 10:14 narrative should flow; it should not be a list of what the character does between their waking up and the story starting #GUDslush #
• 10:15 if character expects other character to do x, then other character does x, that is not conflict. that is boring! #GUDslush #
• 10:41 there is a long tradition of poetry in the world; read some of it before writing your own, why don't you? #GUDslush #
• 10:42 oh #squarespace if i win an iPhone i will flaunt it #
• 11:46 RT @gudmagazine Issue 4 is really out there! shipping + party pics - shar.es/pOG5 #
• 11:51 glad to hear mark thatcher managed to find mumsie's bedside without it costing millions in taxpayers' money #
• 12:04 thinking that ornamental maple has grown #
• 12:04 (it's the sparrows' favourite tree) #
• 12:05 used to be you could see the white buddleia which is behind the maple but not any more, even though the buddleia has also grown #
• 12:06 when we moved in, the maple looked Sad and Almost Dead, but i cut some dead wood out of it and it's done well since #
• 12:06 in back of the garden somewhere is (or was) a rowan that was growing from the stump of a tree someone had cut down #
• 12:07 if you lean sideways and stretch your neck, you can see bits of the buddleia from here; white isn't a colour i'd have chosen tho #
• 12:07 whaddya mean, i should be slushing? #
• 12:25 if you're going to write about cruelty to children, you had better write damn well #GUDslush #
• 12:28 know what you write about #GUDslush #
• 12:30 if i can see what's going to happen and your protagonist can't, then i probably don't want to spend much more time with them #GUDslush #
• 12:31 can i just put on record that i am sick to death of the Evilness of Women k thx bai #GUDslush #
• 12:32 read read read; write write write; submit submit submit what part of that don't you understand? #GUDslush #
• 12:48 if you're doing something that's been done and done before, you have to do it *better* #GUDslush #
• 12:52 it's one thing to assume the reader is an idiot; assuming the EDITOR is an idiot will get you fast-booted outta here #GUDslush #
• 12:55 read what's being published now as well as what was published ten, twenty, thirty years ago...styles change #GUDslush #
• 13:00 don't rely on someone else's creativity to sell yours #GUDslush #
• 13:03 hey! apparently i can get a £5 coin for £5! bargain! #
• 13:07 of course, with the £1.95 p&p it becomes less of a bargain...this is how they're going to pay for the Olympics? #
• 13:08 ugly coin, too #
• 13:24 all the bad poetry is hurting my brain; please please please run your poetry by some disinterested party first #GUDslush #
• 13:27 look! over there! shiny! *buries #GUDslush in garden while backs are turned* #
• 13:32 okay, that one could have done with some kind of explanation #GUDslush #
• 13:32 RT @littlefluffycat someone's offering poetry crits in the Cat Valente auctions. . . ;) #GUDslush #
• 13:37 how can five bad poems feel like a hundred? #GUDslush #
• 13:43 twenty-six unslushed slushies in #GUDslush oh woes #
• 13:47 what a shame Britain and the US destroyed Iran's democracy in the 1950s; things could've been so different now #
• 13:48 oh it's #firstlinemonday #
• 14:05 #firstlinemonday Dahanagh had just finished rounds when the gryphon appeared overhead, its wings beating in doubletime... #
• 14:05 #firstlinemonday ...as it selected its landing place. #
• 14:07 RT @BethShope It's #firstlinemonday! Post the first line from one of your novels, stories, chapters, or scenes. Please retweet! #
• 19:54 RT @urbanfantasy: Q&A with urban fantasy author Toni Andrews:bit.ly/nsB12 #

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• 13:38 sixty-four unslushed slushies in #GUDslush bless them! #
• 13:41 contributors--if you make a mistake in submitting and You Really Must Change It, email first! we can fix most things #GUDslush #
• 13:47 it's your responsibility to clean up your ms before you submit it; don't send me Final Showing Markup #GUDslush #
• 13:49 please don't be trite #GUDslush #
• 13:54 the cat just brought in a frog; well, why not? #
• 14:16 I'm very unlikely to buy extremely short pieces that would nonetheless take up a whole page of the magazine #GUDslush #
• 14:18 hmm, if i won an iPhone from #squarespace i would read stories to it in the middle of the night #
• 16:20 adding books to wishlist from PostScript catalogue; bad catalogue! bad! #
• 16:27 now have 190 books on wishlist #
• 00:30 wouldn't Star Wars (4?) have been WAY cooler if Princess Leia had rescued Luke during the whole Death Star attack? #

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• 10:57 it's morning again i see; mornings appear with disturbing regularity #
• 19:48 if i won an iphone from #squarespace i would taunt my husband with it, heheh i have two iPhones and you have none! #
• 22:59 fifty-two unlsushed slushies in #GUDslush did i go out today or something? :D #

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• 10:57 #followfriday @ColleenLindsay cos she's awesome and @gudmagazine because...well, it's GUD MAGAZINE! lol #
• 10:59 okay, back to the old profile picture; resuming normal service; nothing to see here, move along #
• 10:59 #followfriday @hprw for priceless info on publishing #
• 11:14 it seems to be Friday morning #
• 11:21 RT @bengoldacre Im giving a short talk about the placebo effect at the Wellcome Collection: 10th July tr.im/ofSf #
• 11:22 people interested in the placebo effect might also want to think about the nocebo effect :D #
• 11:29 nineteen new slushies in #GUDslush #
• 13:35 more new slushies have sneaked in while i was doing Other Things #GUDslush #
• 13:35 now twenty-six new slushies in #GUDslush #
• 13:46 show don't tell; also, if your character is dislikeable, find a way to make me like them anyway #GUDslush #
• 13:48 scenes! i like scenes! i do not like infodumps, telling, large chunks of exposition, telling, endless gloss; I LIKE SCENES #GUDslush #
• 13:50 why will i read on? if i want to know what happens next; if i want an answer to a question; if the writing grabs me; if i care #GUDslush #
• 13:55 don't show and tell the same thing; pick one or the other #GUDslush #
• 14:12 my cat has all the subtlety of a not-very-subtle thing #
• 14:13 thanks for following, all new followers! (spamelas excluded of course) #
• 14:15 i don't want a list of characters; i want a story! #GUDslush #
• 14:15 hmm, usually i can work out what word the author was trying for. usually #GUDslush #
• 14:18 please assume your reader has a theory of mind #GUDslush #
• 14:20 (paragraph): one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas tinyurl.com/39l8hn #GUDslush #
• 14:24 please credit the reader with the ability to make deductions #GUDslush #
• 14:27 at this rate i could just retweet everything i said yesterday #GUDslush #
• 14:43 'nother list of characters #GUDslush #
• 14:44 #squarespace if i won an iPhone it would be company for miPhone; they could dance together to their own songs #
• 14:51 using tables to include title/genre/author/wordcount information is really distracting; do you want me to read that or the story? #GUDslush #
• 14:52 RT@DevonMonk Please RT: Beta reader & writer match-up party is on! Come to my LJ and find a reader/writer. bit.ly/xZtpP #
• 15:16 line from song on tv: "i'll never get out of this world alive" makes me think of what film? #
• 15:21 Dreaded LOST endings: the one everyone everywhere will tell me about even tho' i've only seen season one #
• 15:28 please do not do that to the English language #GUDslush it's not your enemy #
• 15:53 All UK/EU GUD4s went out today! #
• 00:40 okay tweeple, you totally have to read the comment left on one of my GoodReads reviews tinyurl.com/m5akeb i'm crying laughing #
• 01:33 this teacher in Donnie Darko is so SHIT; are we really supposed to think she's cool? #
• 09:48 no snuggly cat last night :( she doesn't like the fan #
• 09:54 dipped into this book tinyurl.com/nwjjun last night and learnt a surprising amount about woodland management #

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• 10:29 when reading a longer-than-average story, one thing i'm looking at is "does it need to be this long?" and usually it doesn't #GUDslush #
• 10:34 Travel Hopefully Blog: Where to #download #ebooks: ow.ly/dgXw (RT please!) #
• 10:35 thirteen new slushies in #GUDslush phew! feels like i'm almost back in control :D #
• 10:37 if i win an iPhone from #squarespace i will have it sing a duet with miPhone #
• 10:40 read the guidelines; we didn't put them up there for a bet #GUDslush #
• 10:44 some things just can't be saved #GUDslush #
• 10:54 one of our would-be contribs is lucky they don't know how much i want to strangle them; you don't know who you are! #GUDslush #
• 11:16 RT @hprw Blog Update: How Readers Drive Publishing: Publishing is a business which produces books in order to.. bit.ly/3OUba7 #
• 11:20 miPhone is being miPod today #
• 13:10 okay...how do i get husband's burnt fudge off my lovely non-stick pan? anyone? #
• 13:14 would gentle heating do it? #
• 13:25 i has them i has them i has them i has them i has them i has them #
• 13:25 ahem! my box of lovely iss#4 of GUD arrived! woot! #
• 13:28 beautiful beautful iss4s! #
• 13:29 must be time for a cat/GUD photo op! #
• 13:52 GUD4 picture! tinyurl.com/m89o2y #
• 14:13 i remember why i was staring despondently at pan...i'm hungry! #
• 14:23 cat managed to knock her favourite perching place over outside; cue much running away #
• 14:39 cake...must stop thinking about cake #
• 15:22 cannot restore cat's favourite perching place all alone; need help! #
• 15:40 gah! thanks to Really Annoying Telemarketeers Who Hang Up When I Answer and Who Shouldn't Be Calling Anyway, missed sister's call bah bah!!! #
• 15:50 have now blocked calls from evil telemarketeers who shouldn't be calling anyway cos i am registered with Telephone Marketing Prefs, hello? #
• 16:28 hah, got to talk to my sister after all; take that evil telemarketeers! #
• 17:33 RT @mmSeason:Where to #download #ebooks: ow.ly/dgZw #
• 02:27 changing profile pictures--whaddya think, tweeple? #
• 02:54 bedtime for sqrlzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz #

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