http://wurdburd.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:46:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When having an imagination is a good thing. I disappeared for a month - maybe you noticed, maybe you didn't! We moved house and lost connectivity. It came back last Tuesday....The whole moving thing would be a no more than a memory were I not looking at a creative stack of ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/12/06/a-moving-experience-or-in-other-words/ Crackers! Yep that's me. I put it down to the cleaning fluid - my advice? Get someone else to clean your oven! Get someone in to pack up your house, get someone else to have the kids if you have to do the above by yourself. Don't arrange it for ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/27/truly-madly-deeply/ something completely different to what you were looking for...but if you haven't seen it -or them - for a while, it's like Christmas. Without the debt that lasts until April, the turkey - that does the same, and the fairy lights - that don't last at all. Still, while looking through, ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/25/search-and-you-might-find/ Boy do I know how to have fun on a Wednesday evening. Actually, in my own defense, we went out as a family and had a really nice time. This family thing doesn't happen much, but after spending the day with a lot of school children and admitting to ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/21/apple-bobbing-and-potato-peeling/ I'd rather not thanks. When thinking about the depth I have gone into with my characters, each has a job - or way to spend their waking hours - that I have a little bit of knowledge about. Which is exactly why you will not find an accountant or any ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/19/summing-it-up/ Soon is NaNoWriMo, and I was really looking forward to taking part for the second year running. For those who have done and doing it again, I am envious and I hope everything shapes up nicely for you. For those doing it for the first time - just go for ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/18/i-forgot-to-say/ This is no reflection on my manuscript by the way. It's my new talent which I expect the rest of you worked out ages ago - taking music off a compact disc and putting it on another. In fact I am a little behind in the technology stakes, everyone else ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/18/rip-and-burn/ Ernest Hemingway - most disparaging they were too - the first draft of anything is s**t. Feeling sorry for everybody I might offend by that and feeling particularly sorry for myself - but I actually really like the first draft of a recent poem I wrote. I have done what ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/15/in-the-words-of/ Well at least until the morning. But I know from experience the pair of them will play me up all night, scratching and scrabbling at the skirting until I get up and write their story. Why us - why now? But at least it is temporary. For us it is ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/12/who-are-they-leave-me-alone/ Friday afternoon - I am looking for something, can't even remember what now, but the hunt itself sent me some words. So today's entry is a little different. Off to restore normality - or something vaguely resembling it I've been looking everywhere On the table, under the chair Could they be here, behind ... http://wurdburd.today.com/2009/10/11/searching-searching/