Weird how colours have tones, and sounds have tones but smells don't.
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Keith W. Dickinson
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This has made me wonder, what's your favourite swear that's not a swear? For me it's got to be 'clackers'. Right in the clackers, punched him in the clackers, it's all good. 😂
Louie StowellParents! What's the WORST swearword you'd be comfortable with your 8-12 year old reading in a story? Where do we stand on "arse"? (please be as prissy as you like, I'm trying to balance "word I want to use" with "can I be arsed with the complaints"?)
A proper smackdown.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Hello, I'm the new CEO. I'm going to say what I think shareholders and investors want to hear, whilst alienating the active user base who attracted those shareholders and investors in the first place. Why yes this is my first time being a Big Business Boy, why do you ask?
The VergeBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Buys garlic bread on the way home for supper. Gets in. Puts a load of chips and nuggets in the air fryer. Turns on oven. Starts adding cheese to garlic bread. Realises the air fryer is on. Realises he's making two suppers for some reason. Regrets. Put cheesy garlic bread in fridge and has chips. 🤷♂️
You want to know the big secret? The more you do it the easier it gets, but you have to do it.
Antony JohnstonSeeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.