Notes from a small brain
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Writing Tip no 39
Some people ask me, ‘Where do stories come from?’
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A Christmas Message
I was at friend’s house the other day and he informed me that some of his friends had recently purchased themselves an oil-less deep fat fryer for Christmas.
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A New Year Message
For the past three days I have been editing the final chapter of ‘The Penguin Variations’. So I am finishing it as the year ends. It’s been a good year.
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Advocat for breakfast
I need to go shopping.
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Anal Sex
In an interview I read this week with AL Kennedy she said her w
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As If!
There was a quote at the end of the Start the Week podcast. Q. “Why are you not unhappy?" A.
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b On Trains
Some thoughts about trains including Buffalo Bill, E E Cummings, the Shinkansen, and a moony out of a window of a train.
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Brilliant!
I finally got the proof copy of ‘Me and Mickie James’ this week.
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Cover Story
One of my favourite books, ‘Death and The Penguin’ I bought because I liked the cover.
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Me and Mickie Proofs
I had an email from the publisher telling me the proofs for ‘Me and Mickie James’ are bac
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Pants!
So the proofs for Me and Mickie James have arrived.
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Papa Smurf Pays A Visit
Yesterday I was sitting at my desk writing when I turned around and noticed Papa Smurf standing in the centre of the floor behind me.
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My life as a frog
I was a precocious child. I went straight from Peter and Jane to Lady Windermere’s Fan. Of course I returned later to Enid Blyton but it was with a certain aesthetic detachment.
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The Only Way to Rob a Bank is Naked
I’m a big fan of public transport. It’s the people they let on it that bothers me. In the same way I’m a big fan of democracy. It just depends whose hands it’s in.
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Shock! Horror! Plot in Crisis!
John Richardson was interviewed on Front Row this week. For the past 30 years he has been writing the biography of Picasso.
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Seasons End
My top 10 books of the year.
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National Year of Reading 2008
This year is the National Year of Reading . (That’s reading as in reading books, not Reading as in the town outside London.
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Me and Mickie James Cover
This week I received the cover for ‘Me and Mickie James’. I was surprised. I was expecting a picture. Instead it is covered in writing, front and back. Also it’s black.
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Don Quixote
It would be difficult to write an amusing blog about mass suicide so I won’t even try.
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Writing Industries Conference
Last Saturday, 9th February 2008, I attended the Writing Industries Conference at Loughborough University. I wrote about my part in it in my blog last week but not about the whole shebang.
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Favourite Book
This week / Last week... (depending on when you read this, because weeks have a funny way of running on, like cabbages down a gangplank)
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www.drewgummerson.co.uk
Yes I am now www.drewgummerson.co.uk .
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Me and Mickie James: Review Copies
I got a call from my agent two days ago. She was excited. “Have you seen them?"
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Unhappy Funny People
I’ll be quick today. I’ve got to be off soon to the daily grind and I’ve got to feed my ex-cat on the way.
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I'm a book designer! I'm famous!
This week I got my contract from the BBC for ‘Teeth’ .
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Me and Mickie James Launch
I don’t know what’s happened to this week. It’s like a salt and vinegar crisp someone holds under your nose. You turn your head away, you turn back, and it’s gone. Just gone.
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Writing Courses (or not)
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Photo Shoot
Tomorrow I am going to London to have my photo taken for Dazed and Confused magazine.
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H
This morning I grew concerned that I was suffering from ADHD. Unfortunately I was not able to sit down at the computer long enough to fully research the matter.
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Where I'm Calling From
(All writers steal. Thanks to Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres who wrote similar pieces to the one below. They also stole it from someone else.)
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Sci-Fi
I was thinking about how much I like sci-fi earlier this afternoon when a spaceman came up to my door and put a letter through my letterbox. Actually on second thoughts it may have been a postman.
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Plot Idea. Woman Gets Onto Bus
Plot idea. Woman gets onto bus
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Watch Out! Vikings!
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Lowdham!
Just back from the gym. Didn’t do much today, only some rowing. Just enough to keep my oar in.
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It's out...!!!!
My book, Me and Mickie James released.
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It's Launched
So, last night was the launch party for Me and Mickie James .
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Geezer comes into shop...
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I'm on the radio! I'm in the Guardian!
It’s been a good week all round, which is strange as weeks aren’t normally round (I’ve said this before).
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I'm on Radio 4
Today at 3:30pm I’m going to be on Radio 4. Well, not me, but my story Teeth.
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I'm the head of a matchstick, I'm a number seven, I'm a...
This week I’m just making shapes. I’m the head of a matchstick, I’m a number seven, I’m a box of Cuban cigars on an ageing dictator’s desk.
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On Being Disembodied
On Saturday night I’m going to be disembodied. Come along if you want to listen.
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How I Write
I try and write every day although this is not always possible.
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Sitges, Sitges, Sitges
So said the barwoman of the hotel terrace bar. We we looking down on the church, at a green laser light playing on the ground. It was nothing really, like something a kid would have.
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Zola Budd and Big Books
I am Zola Budd or an aspiring bum. Remember her, when they did get her in spikes you didn’t know if you were watching track and field or a remixed edition of Death Race 2000.
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On the Spectrum
On the Spectrum. It is 1986. Margaret Thatcher is sat firmly on her throne. The Chernobyl Nuclear disaster is just on the horizon. People are...
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Flamingo Dreams
And in other news. My book, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel , which appeared here on AbcTales between October and December 2019 is to be published...
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Flamingo Hotel. Bookings Now Open.
My novel, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel is now available to pre-order. You can do it here . It will be Bearded Badger Press’s launch title and...
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Flamingo Hotel. The interview.
Seven Nights. The Interview. First off, isn’t it a bit unusual to interview yourself? Well, I saw the Chris McCabe do it in his book Dedalus and that...
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