An Innocent Abroad

Words about words.

Monday, 9 December 2013

Abstinence-only education

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The Big Adult thing I've done so far this month is start the eternal quest to nail down my tax responsibilities. This so far has include...
Monday, 25 November 2013

Finish line in sight

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Yesterday I hit 98,000 words on the current novel. Which is about 13,000 words farther than I thought it would go, and I still have a handfu...
Sunday, 24 November 2013

To London, to London, jiggity-jig

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I keep winding up in London, unintentionally, for purposes that are not entirely work-related. Not that I'm complaining. Monday was a ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2013

A shoebox of one's own

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I may have mentioned before the two things all STEM PGR students say that makes me want to do my weasel in a henhouse imitation: "Of co...
Friday, 18 October 2013

Block it out.

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I've never outlined a novel - which probably shows glaringly if you read the early drafts of The Shore . I make rough plans some times, ...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

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I'm a week into the PhD, and I've come to the conclusion that the administration is broken. Bluescreen Red-ring-of-death stab Caesar...
Monday, 7 October 2013

Oh baby

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It's been a bad weekend, begun with bad news from home conveyed badly (note to family: I'm five hours ahead and there is literally n...
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