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As soon as the first was done and dusted, critiqued and mauled, I started the second and third as more-or-less place holders for a proper bit of writing. Just enough to give me an idea what I was really trying to say and what I was actually saying. Sometimes the latter discovery was more...

If after leaving a book alone I start to feel I need to say something more, then I know the break is over. If I don't, then the book is over.

Micky (for Michelle) with variations of spelling available. Chris/Chrissy/Christy etc Bob :)

...bringing us neatly back to Babylon 5 :) The Corps is Mother....the Corps is Father

Despite getting off at the wrong stop and having to re-board, Jenn had navigated the London Underground, she supposed, successfully, considering that now she sat inside a bus shelter just across the road from a grey-bricked building she knew housed Herold’s Talent Agency. I know, I know...

Curtis was indeed doing an impression of Cary Grant's slightly Americanised Bristol accent in SLIH, later parodied by numerous impressionists and in such popular entertainments as Fancy in Top Cat.

I always want to say "Sesevenen" when I read this wacky title :)

Exactly what I meant :) :p :o

Darn right, Py. I just shared the foregoing with my brother and he's still chuckling :)

Interesting point someone made about religion, which actually is a belief in magic (by some interpretations), and a belief strongly held by those who have experienced the magic first-hand. How has that affected our attitudes towards religious people? It has impacted directly on...

I there are several rather coy examples in The Saint and other adventure books of its era, when swearing might tend to corrupt the innocent mind of its high proportion of teen and adolescent reader. Charteris in particular, who made something of a stylistic habit out of stepping into the...

Thank you for the links, as soon as I get back to a sensible computer I'll check 'em out :)

Make room for Peter O'Toole's What's New Pussycat, then. Though not in anyone's top ten movies, he still performs with sizzling sensuality and wit.

I haven't read the book and only remember the story as an allegory for communist witch-hunting. In this context, it stands as a clever and distinctive use of Science Fiction as a warning medium in film, if not outright propaganda. That it didn't delve too deeply into science - the 70's version...

Bottom line, for me, is be true to yourself and to the integrity of your characters. Of course swear words in a fantasy Universe might be very different from those used on the docks of Clydeside.

My first instinct is that it hasn't been overdone because I can't think of a famous version of the story you describe. If I could then I'd think the idea has been over-done already. However, you now have the chance to write that version of the story which everyone will remember and thus...

She rounded off the day with a round of golf around the living room.

Curiosity is an admirable scientific trait :) I probably have it all wrong, but has this to do with measuring gravitational variations on Earth and, if so, won't those data be of some help in predicting, or at least understanding, tectonic and magnetic field variations?

NGO might be of most immediate use and interest to us as we undergo climate change, pole reversals and an encroaching ice age (unless I misunderstand the science, which is entirely possible, if not probable).

If I'm on the right path for my enlightenment, why is is so painful? Just one pretty obvious one, I guess :o