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Even in a Little Thing
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Journal of writer/historian Gillian Polack
- Author: Gillian Polack
- Listed in: Writing History Personal
- Tags: writing horror in bad dreams
Recent Posts
Writers and food - Shana Worthen
Since the untimely demise of my Food History blog, I've been fretting about my series of posts on writers and their foods. I've decided to bring it here. To start the series off in fine style, we have an immensely civilised person. Like a special ...
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When I woke up this morning I discovered two things:1) quite a few writers hold strong views on the overheads issue (I am not alone!)2) a very few people aren't quite sure what overheads are, and can't see that they need to be factored into one's w...
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A bookseller and I got into an interesting discussion a few weeks ago. He said (fairly) that the reason booksellers need a good discount on the retail price was because the bookseller has overheads to cover. I suggested that too much discount and t...
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I still have no phone. Apparently it's easier to debar internet access than to debar phone access.You want to know why I was barred? A series of errors (the only one of mine was assuming that everything was OK) by my ISP, solved in a long conversat...
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Yesterday was bad in patches and today those patches appear to be spreading. If anyone wants to ring me, I shall have phone tomorrow night, probably. I'm hoping to have full breathing capacity before then. I've gone very silent in some arenas beca...
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Today is a day for sorting things. I'm making a start on the very wordy confetti that makes my place look interesting. I'm sorting out medicine and food and maybe popular religion* in my students' minds and teaching them how to sort out the various...
