Tony
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Are you a ...?Writer published in mags, etcWhat genre do you primarily write in?General fictionIf you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?Short fictionAre your reading habits ...?SophisticatedWho is your favourite author(s)?Child, McNab, Tolkein & anybody remember Denis Wheatley? He wrote great historical adventures as well as the more sensational black magic stuff. He was probably Enid Blighton for grown-ups, but I loved the Famous Five when I was a kid, too!And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)Lord of the Rings; My Son, My Son; On the Beach; Day of the Jackal; Fourth Protocol; any Lee Child; and Andy McNab and Wheatley's Roger Brook (Napoleonic wars) and Gregory Salust (World War II) stories.What are your working habits when you write?ProcastinatoryAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Some self-editingYour ultimate writing ambition?Have my third sequal publishedYour worst habit?Writing long sentences that have to be edited into two or threeYour opinion on the books industry?It is a tough game, but everyone does their bestWhere do you write?In my head (and then in my study)What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?Brought up in Ulster, married Anita and moved to Woking. Brought up 3 great children who have so far given us 7 grandchildren. Now retired and writing (sort of) fulltime. Revising 1st novel, Starlings in the Corn, writing the odd article and short story.
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"Tony" commented on stephenterry's Blog "Samui Secrets change of title and book cover...".I'd agree; the second. But I don't know what the turquoise patch is halfway along. I'm presuming it's not something with any relevance to the story. In which case, you ought to photoshop it out, as it would needlessly distract.
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"Tony" commented on Jill's Blog "Can we love too much?".This begs the question whether love is absolute. We either love or we don't love. Can there be varying amounts of love? Can someone be too pregnant? They either are or they aren't. We can like someone a little or a lot, but can we love someone a ...
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"Tony" commented on AlanP's Blog "Tinker Tailor Soldier Error".Grrr, grrrr, Grrr! Only joking, TF. To each his/her own. I do agree with you that the radio adaptation of LOTR was brilliant. And with John, that the book does bring more pleasure than the film, though, as I said above and others have agreed, the ...
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"Tony" commented on Wrathnar the Unreasonable's Blog "Miranda's state visit to Potters Bar".In case anyone else wants to try to work it out, I've put the answer to the 'drawing' on of one of my own blogs, here: http://writing-community.writersworkshop.co.uk/magazine/read/yeovil-literary-prize_5089.html Well done, Whisks, for cracking it.
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"Tony" commented on Wrathnar the Unreasonable's Blog "Miranda's state visit to Potters Bar".Such simple pleasures delightfully narrated. You've had a great weekend. I like the drawing game. How about this one: Someone sitting at one of those treadle operated turn-tables, shaping clay into a vase. The whole, inside a red circle with a ...
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"Tony" commented on AlanP's Blog "Tinker Tailor Soldier Error".Film is a different medium to the written story. Although we expect the film of the book to be 'the same', we really shouldn't. How can it? Can a portrait be the same as the model who posed for it? It can be beautiful and aesthetically brilliant in ...
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"Tony" commented on John Taylor's Blog "Beetlejuice".Nice imagery - from all of you. A bit like Whisks, I haven't yet been officially diagnosed, so I'm not even on the waiting list yet.
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"Tony" commented on Caducean Whisks's Blog "When is a Blog like a Dinner Party?".Woops, croissed with you Alan. Didn't see you there in the corner nursing your bottle :-)
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"Tony" commented on Caducean Whisks's Blog "When is a Blog like a Dinner Party?".Am I the first to arrive? Did nobody else turn up? Or have they all gone? I'll give you a hand with the washing up, shall I? Some interesting analogies here, but what sort of dinner part, or blog, is this? It's to stimulate our taste buds, isn't ...
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"Tony" commented on AlanP's Blog "Not right".February 2013 So to sum up what people seem to be saying: Wallace and Grommet are archetypal characters whose plots hide an undrercurrent of subliminal references that really bare no relation to what it says on the tin. This is seen as a growing ...
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"Tony" commented on AlanP's Blog "Not right".Good blog, Alan. I do wonder how much credance should be given to reviews. Certainly not to selective 'quotes' on the back of the book, where we see things like 'Couldn't put it down' - Daily Telegraph, when their full statement was actually ...
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Tony commented on Wrathnar the Unreasonable's picture.That's either an awfully small kitten, or an awfully big spud. Nice one.
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by Spangles 2 days agoI hope you're feeling better by now, Tony. Here is a poem (though I think that's far too grand a term for it!) for you.
The muse departs/When the sneezing starts/Your mind is foggy/And your hankie's soggy/You need some rest/To return to your best -
by zoolane 4 days agoHello, I have re edit the Chapter 1 and I hope I have listen to feedback.
http://writing-community.writersworkshop.co.uk/forum/top/209 Please let me know think of it. I did research of travel info.
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by Jill 14 days agoGardening Journal articles - there is another idea. Thanks. I really will have to make a list of all these writerly ideas, for I cannot give it up. Gardening a good contrast, though, even in the drizzle as today! I always feel close to my late Dad when I am gardening. We girls, when little used to follow him around his big garden and observe his work. We learnt a lot that way. :)
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by Steve 14 days agoWhat? My life hasn't begun yet? What have I been doing for the past 38 years? Cheers for the invite to the pub quiz - I take it it was that night only? How did it go?
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by Caducean Whisks 16 days agoDoh. Course you're right. See what I mean? I'm on the way out and should be replaced. Can't even count up to 24 with any reliable success. Must check Argos for a new brain. Double Nectar points this weekend.
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by Skylark 16 days agoThanks! Not feeling quite so daunted now that I've had some help from my Cloud friends :-)






















