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 Captain Morgan's Blog "Rules for writers, by writers.".Guero D: "There is no adverb that cannot be conveyed without a situational description." Don't know what you mean by this. Did you mean, "that cannot be conveyed WITH a situational description"? But whether an extra phrase, or more probably, a ...
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"Tony" commented on Captain Morgan's Blog "Rules for writers, by writers.".I think the trick is never to say, 'Never.' Like 'Never use a verb other than 'said' to carry dialogue. That's just silly; you can't used 'asked' if it's a question? BUT - it is good guidance: normally stick to 'said' rather than 'exclaimed', ...
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"Tony" commented on Weens's Blog "Broken Glass.".You'll certainly be able to write a cracking story about this, Weens, but I'm sorry you've had all the hassle. Hope the engineers sort it out quickly for you.
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Tony commented on Caducean Whisks's picture.Gosh. Make sure all the girls are safely locked in before you start wielding the sythe, won't you.
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"Tony" commented on Barry Walsh's Blog "Long Ride".Great achievement! Well done, Barry and your mates. "Well, 'tis done (short of a few miles)" I know you said you missed about 40 miles early on. I don't understand that. How come you're not still 40 miles north of the finishing post, then?
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"Tony" commented on Old Fat Prop's Blog "Fridays laugh....part Ii".Ha. Very good. I thought he was going to say: 'Cripes! What are you doing here? Didn't you get enough at the office? What if my wife comes back?'
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"Tony" commented on Gerry's Blog "Ultimate Questions: What Can Science Tell Us?".Very interesting stuff. "There are more thing in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your phylosophy" as Hamlet put it. Any scientist who chooses to limiit himself to the physical, and to investigate matter only by physical means, ...
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"Tony" commented on The WordCloud's Blog "Harry's Hard Day at the Office!".Now I understand why you're giving them away. You need to get the space back on your desk.
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12th April 2012
Reminiscences of a Book Launch
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9th April 2012
The Bother at Brooklands
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22nd March 2012
There's many a slip...
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7th March 2012
AN OBJECT OF DELIGHT
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8th February 2012
I was the 2,446,776,752nd person to be born
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by Skylark 17 days agoYou get a bonus point for making me laugh out loud before the comp even gets going! :-D
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by SecretSpi 1 month agoThanks again to you and Steve for the photos and reporting - Kay has used some of them here:
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by Mcallan 1 month agoCheers Tony!....I had no idea...or even where you find out such info! *goes to investigate*
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by Suze 1 month agothanks for the techie advice on Blogs, Tony. I haven't added a tag, is this what I'm doing wrong? I do tick the 'sub to public mag' box though. It's driving me nuts, and I assure you the content is perfectly proper!





















