What did you blog about today?

[Juliana]

Sounds exciting, Toby!!

 

[The Big Peat]

Read about what I'm reading - Five Mini-Reviews

 

[Jo Zebedee]

A reflective little one. But a useful one. I've worked pretty hard at making a lot of this happen:

Green seeds of hope - Jo Zebedee

 

[The Big Peat]

Beating the Block

 

[Juliana]

Nice one, @The Big Peat. I absolutely agree with the exercise in particular – going for walks is a great way to unwind and let the ideas flow...

 

[Toby Frost]

More writing thoughts: the picture that launched 120,000 words:

Words to That Effect: Woman With A Lockpick

 

[thaddeus6th]

I reviewed a very mixed bag of samples, with sci-fi and fantasy, comedy and serious stuff, real and fictional worlds: Thaddeus the Sixth: Snapshots Review 3: The Reviewening

 

[CTRandall]

A post On Trees, Bees and Ocarinas, looking at more of Grad Bernart's weird and wacky inventions for talking to plants.

 

[Juliana]

Some thoughts on NaNoWriMo and how to make the most of it, whether you're doing it 'officially' or not...
Words, Chocolate, and NaNoWriMo

 

[Toby Frost]

The sense of noir in fiction:

Words to That Effect: The Appeal of Noir

 

[CTRandall]

A review of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. I know it's a classic and doesn't need my help but, hey, Halloween is almost here. I can smell it!

 

[thaddeus6th]

You might think I'm a contrarian, but I'm not.

Anyway, a random historical ramble about some advantages women had in the Middle Ages: Thaddeus the Sixth: Advantages for Women in the Middle Ages

 

[Juliana]

Anyway, a random historical ramble about some advantages women had in the Middle Ages: Thaddeus the Sixth: Advantages for Women in the Middle Ages

Now I want to read a Ye Olde Murder Mystery about a woman who claims her husband ordered her to kill someone...

 

[thaddeus6th]

Hehe. But what if he were a bigamist and, unknown to her, she was his second wife, and therefore they weren't legally married?!

 

[Biskit]

No animals at all this time, just a rant about online advertising, Five Great Ways To Roast Live Clickbait.

 

[Toby Frost]

I've never much cared for Halloween: growing up in Britain in the 1980s, it hardly existed as a festival. (We instead burned things to celebrate the grisly execution of a religious subversive.) However, I do find the techniques used by writers to create fear and suspense very interesting. Here is a blog post about that.

Words to That Effect: Five Things About Fear (and other quality alliteration)

 

[Montero]

I've never much cared for Halloween: growing up in Britain in the 1980s, it hardly existed as a festival. (We instead burned things to celebrate the grisly execution of a religious subversive.)

I remember one November 5th, fireworks going off like WW3, being asked by two baffled American tourists what was happening. I answered "Guy Fawkes night" and carried on my way. Rather later realised that my answer probably hadn't been in the least bit helpful......

 

[thaddeus6th]

Slightly serious business. A blog about the weird absence of Soviet dramas and histories: Thaddeus the Sixth: The Soviet Vacuum

 

[CTRandall]

@thaddeus6th Interesting post. You've definitely got a point (or a question, at least). That said, coming from a music background, Stalin's excesses are very well known and regularly taught as part of music history. I don't mean to belittle what he did to Cossacks or the mass starvations--they don't get the attention they deserve--but the overall level of oppression and violence (Shostakovich and Prokofiev survived, though several people around them didn't and Prokofiev fled to the West) is taught as part of 20th-century music history.

As I write that, it sounds pretty anemic in comparison to how Nazi atrocities are taught...

 

[AlexH]

I remember one November 5th, fireworks going off like WW3, being asked by two baffled American tourists what was happening. I answered "Guy Fawkes night" and carried on my way. Rather later realised that my answer probably hadn't been in the least bit helpful......

Fireworks go off all day, all year in China. I asked two Chinese people why and neither knew. I asked an English teacher from Middlesbrough (living in China) and she said Chinese people set fireworks off in the day for any reason, like opening a new shop or a birthday.