Broken Heart Art

 

This was an interesting post taking us through the design process from the beginning to the finished product.

 

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Coffee Rings Everywhere

Here is what this blogger has to say for herself:

I am a Mother, a Home-maker, a Full-time Working Woman. I run, I take photographs, I garden, I read, I crochet, I drink numerous cups of tea. My day is as crammed as my handbag- with bits and pieces threatening to fall out all the time.

 

I would love to sit on a sunny porch and write, but I don't even have enough time to visit my favourite blogs. I should not be writing. I just do not have the time to. But when has that ever stopped the thoughts from coming?

And so, I compromise. I express my thoughts in a hundred words. I capture moments with my camera. I get by, till I get time for more.

 

Because her life is busy and time is short, she writes dribbles  A dribble is a story told in exactly 100 words.

 

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Maximum Verbosity

A reader of science fiction who loves Dr Who.

 

 

A woman on her own, introverted and able to talk about it, who gets flustered about the plumbing and who knows something about outer space..

So what is she going to make of the new Dr Who on Christmas Day?


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Here`s a link to Susan Cain and The Power of Introverts

This is a Blog about Books....And Life

This blogger writes about her struggles to write. She is a Christian and also writes about her dislike of what she calls Christian fiction. She calls this type of book, Candyland, and she does not want to write them or read them.

Here is what she has to say:

I don’t agonize over every word. I don’t worry about offending anyone, but neither do I intentionally set out to do so. I’ve been around long enough to know that no matter how hard you try, somebody out there is going to find something to pick on and get their knickers in a twist over. It happens. I’m not perfect and neither are my characters. As I’ve said before, (in this blog post) I won’t pretty it up and put a bow on it. Sure, there’s a market for those Candyland type books, but I don’t read them and I don’t want to write them.

 

Further into the blog she has a picture of her manuscript and writes about the work she is going to have to do to get it right. "Every word counts," she says. Now she is agonising over every word. She does not see the contradiction.

There is no failsafe method in this madness. At least I haven’t found one. Remember Harry Potter? Rejected how many times? I will probably never know what I’m doing wrong, but I darn well better be sure I know what I’m doing right. And that takes work. It takes commitment. It takes courage and yes, a certain kind of craziness to do what I do. And keep doing it. No guarantees.

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View from the Stalls

Here is a blog about theatre going and reviews in Central Scotland.

 

 

The above post is a review of the `Glasgow Girls.`

 

Cleverly, David Greig's book mocks the very idea of a musical based on a group of schoolgirls campaigning against the treatment of asylum seekers in Glasgow - and some characters are happier than others to find themselves on stage. Considering that the cast all play multiple roles (and at times themselves) it sounds on paper as if it could get very complicated, very quickly, but helped by some superfast costume changes it hangs together seamlessly.

From Wikipedia:

 

The Glasgow Girls are a group of seven young women in Glasgow, Scotland, who have highlighted the poor treatment of failed asylum seekers. Named by two of its members Amal Azzudin and Roza Salih, the group was established by the group who were all members of Drumchapel High School in Glasgow in response to the detention of one of their friends, Agnesa Murselaj. Publicity grew as the girls challenged the First Minister and publicly voiced their concerns as more children at their school were dawn raided, detained and deported.

After visiting the Scottish Parliament twice, The Glasgow Girls obtained cross-party support on the issue.

The group won the Scottish Campaign of the Year Award in 2005 at the annual Scottish politician of the year ceremony for their hard work. However, it did not stop them from demanding to know just what had happened to the "protocol" Jack McConnell that had promised to obtain from the Home Office that social services, education services, and the Immigration police would be consulted before the removal of a family.
Two documentaries have been made by the BBC about their campaign, one of which won the Nations and Regions Award in the Amnesty International UK Media Awards.[1]
In 2013 a musical was released at the Stratford East Theatre depicting the life of the Glasgow Girls.

 

 

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For THEATRE AND SHOWS IN GLASGOW

 

 

Ramblings of a free mind

This blog is written by a businessman from India interested in marketing, reading, cricket and certain applications on the Internet.

 

 

The above post contains a talk given by Steve Jobs, of Apple fame, at a Stanford University graduation ceremony. His talk consists of three stories from his own life. More HERE

 

For Cringley`s fascinating history of the nerds who developed the personal computer:    http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part1.html