NeonBlue Dreams
Living on the edge looking in - the random ramblings of a geek girl

The topic of the week at one of my favourite web haunts, an online forum (a neat idea to get folks talking, and one Rachel’s considering borrowing for her forum), is whether the very detailed descriptions of the natural environment in a particular piece of literature is needed, whether it’s superfluous, or whether it’s just [...]

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Okay, so “WTF has eBay got to do with the creative process?”, you’re wondering. Good question!
What did we do before eBay came along? I’m not just talking about buying complete tat, rubbish we don’t really need, because there are an abundance of “bricks and mortar” places where we can do that. Charity shops sell all [...]

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My apologies for the recent absence of Rachel, but for now you’re stuck with me, Bliss, on account of Rachel’s brain having taken an unscheduled vacation. It’s a little difficult to tell the difference sometimes…
Anyhow, here I am, at long last ready to re-commence work on “Fallen Angel”, and what happens? A couple of gatecrashers [...]

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The past week or so I’ve been doing not a lot of pretty much everything. Other problems with arms and hands and fingers not working properly have curtailed my typing, and I’ve been mainly reading. I haven’t touched any of my OU stuff since the other week when both assignments for both courses were due [...]

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Yesterday I had a bit of a scare. For the past six months I’ve been on some pretty heavy duty painkillers. The pain I’m now getting in my upper spine isn’t responding to anything much, not even the morphine-like buprenorphine patches, but I have to say that the rest of my back’s responded well to [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I was talking about disability, and what it actually means. I came to the conclusion that labels are often just a shorthand for something, something that saves a long, detailed explanation. When it comes to disability, and how I describe myself, it’s a lot easier to say “I’m disabled” rather [...]

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It’s taken some time, but I’ve finally figured out where the problem is, or rather, where the problems are, with Fallen Angel.
It’s fifteen years since the inception of Fallen Angel - fifteen years! I can hardly believe it sometimes. Fifteen years and I’m still only up to Chapter 7 and currently on re-draft #4. (though [...]

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Question: What have the NHS and my body got in common?
Answer: They’re both fucked.
Last night I had an appointment with my neurosurgeon. Yes, last night - 7.15pm. Why? Because apart from doing his day job, which at the moment is covering at another hospital for another surgeon, as well as his own, twice a week [...]

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Over at The Pickards JackP’s picked up on the idea of a six word memoir, as mentioned on Stephen Lang’s site.
Always up for a challenge, I thought I’d give it a shot. Summing up your life, your achievements, your outlook, thoughts, hopes and desires in only six words?
A number of quotes from some of my [...]

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A few days ago Gill over at JBVoices posted a blog entry about a graphic she’d happened upon on the web, showing a pie chart of a time breakdown for modern web design which had amused her greatly. It amused me too.

For those requiring a text version of the image, the breakdown reads thus:
2% - [...]

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