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The Teas That Bind
My new book is available for download! Surviving earthquakes, one brew at a time. The book comprises posts written for ten minutes hate since the Great East Japan earthquake struck on 11 March 2011,...
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Something for nothing
You don’t get something for nothing, as Portishead once sang: But if you did, well, it could indeed be sweet, as the Bristolians note. So today could be a very lucky day, if you head over to Lulu and...
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Friday May 11th, 8:30 -10:30 PM The Teas that Bind by J.C. Greenway at...
Reblogged from The Cat's Meow: The Teas That Bind by J.C. Greenway May 11th, 2012 8:30 -10:30 PM Biscotti Tapas ¥3,500 (includes welcome drink, snacks, & a book) What happens when the adventure you...
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Going missing
A grey sky, making it too easy to feel miserable. The heel fell off my boot as I walked into work, leaving me limping all day. Over-tired, I had slept too long, veering from one lucid, unsettling dream...
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Carve Magazine – Raymond Carver Short Story Contest
I wasn’t going to mention this as I know there are quite a few talented writers who read ten minutes hate and I thought maybe I could do without the competition! Reason prevailed though, so it is only...
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Love those redheads
I have profuse apologies to make. I can’t remember the last time I took a whole week off updating ten minutes hate. Thanks to all of you who have been passing by to see if I had written anything new, …...
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Content creation
There is a commonly held belief that in these days of social media, what we do is manufacture content. How many times have you been told that when you use Facebook or similar sites, you are not the...
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Eight methods to beat the blues
My pal the Japan Camera Hunter has written this great post, all about escaping a photography rut and beating the blues. While it is no doubt useful to those with a camera permanently affixed to their...
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A desk of one’s own
Writer Erinna Mettler sparked my interest this week with her post on ‘Desk Envy’. A desk is such a fundamental part of a writer’s equipment, yet so difficult to perfect, it is no wonder that there are...
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On trend
From the Pre-Spring 2013 edition of i-D magazine, courtesy of Givenchy comes word of the latest trend in high fashion: babies. Forget handbags, watches and bangles – the only thing to have hanging from...
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The Charming Depravity of Tennessee Williams
North and South meet as ten minutes hate‘s guest writer John Maguire considers Tennessee Williams. The autobiography of Thomas Lanier Williams, otherwise known as Tennessee, is almost written in his...
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Viva Frida!
I like to read and write in bed. A comfortable mattress can at times be equally as productive as a sturdy desk. A pad perched up on my knees, drafting, crafting. My mantra has always been: graft equals...
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A reading chair
If I was a king, I would have a chair purposefully crafted out of volumes of books. Books that I have read through the years. Books that now I find are inside of me. The iconic Iron Throne in the …...
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That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick by Ellin Stein
If they say the best books are like a conversation with the author, then ‘That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick – The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream’ by (disclosure:...
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How not to write a book in 30 days
This week my eye was caught by an informative and amusing interview in the Paris Review with Geoff Dyer, ‘The Art of Nonfiction No. 6′. Closer examination reveals it to be taken from the Winter 2013...
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Writing Liverpool
Coming home for Christmas can contain a mixture of emotions, perhaps depending on where you are returning to and from which departure point. Along with the tins of Quality Street to attack and...
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Lily Poole by Jack O’Donnell
How much is too much to spend on a book? As with so much in life, George Orwell has already considered and quantified the answer for you. That said, I imagine the ideal price of a book is different for...
View ArticleMargin notes: bird by bird by Anne Lamott
I wonder if every writer gets to this page in Anne Lamott’s bird by bird: And then looks over one shoulder and wonders exactly how Ms. Lamott can see inside their heads.
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While the buildings, gardens and artefacts of the pre-industrial world and land-owning classes are studiously preserved, there remains a cavalier attitude to the industrial heritage, and to the...
View ArticleJolts by Fernando Sdrigotti
Really enjoyed this short story by Fernando Sdrigotti called Jolts, as published by 3am Magazine in September. The editors who turned it down must be idiots. Who has never experienced such jolts in...
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