Sara's quote for the Thursday people

Run your pen through every second word you have written. You have no idea what vigour it will give to your style. (Sydney Smith)

Plot is character. Character is plot. (Scott Fitzgerald)

Hailstones

My friend in Italy wants to know if it is "hailing" or "hailstoning". Could anyone provide the correct nomenclature for the dear ex pat?

Hello everyone. I am greatly looking forward to Thursday and hearing your glorious pieces of entertaining Christmas writing.

Christmas in space

God may be everywhere but Christmas is when He decided to be in one place at one time in the form of Jesus. The first Christmas is supposed to have taken place around 2000 years ago.
 
Since nothing travels faster than light then ‘Christmas’ has been travelling away from Bethlehem ever since. It reached the Moon after about a quarter of a second and the Sun after about 8 and a half minutes. If you had a sufficiently powerful telescope, say 2012 light years away, you would be able to see the whole shepherds-angels-manger thing any day now.
 
In space terms 2012 light years isn’t very far. Information about the nativity hasn’t even cleared our own arm of the Milky Way galaxy let alone reached further afield. It will not reach the easily visible Andromeda galaxy, for instance, for another 2 million years.
 
I am surprised that these facts have not been used as a motivation for invasion by space aliens – clearly most other planets must be jealous of our Christmas festivities.

Fulfilment From Fiction: Steph's Page

Fulfilment From Fiction: Steph's Page

still soooo much to do!

Better Book Titles

Better Book Titles is a fun site that publishes repurposed book covers, usually to make a satirical point. I thought we could steal the technique and come up with book covers for our stories. Here's mine - you can quess where I stole it from.