Tag Archive | humour
…forget the Spice Girls… here’s the Indie Girls… coming to a Waterstones near you…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…great timing! … in consonance with my previous post about ‘Living the Dream,’ into my Guest Blog slot comes the fabulous news that four of our Indie Girls are all appearing together at Waterstones, Kensington… my pals, Lizzie Lamb, Adrienne Vaughan, June Kearns and Mags Cullingford, collectively known as the New Romantics,…
…Authors, it costs yeez NUTHIN to dream…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the trusty Webster’s Dictionary offers several meanings for the WURD, ‘dream’… my favourites of the nouns for it are these: an aspiration… a goal… an aim… and in the active verb style: to form in the imagination… as a child (which I once was, Mabel, albeit about a hundred years ago), more time than I care to admit sum’times, was…
…re-run by popular request… Foreword for SELF-PUBLISHING STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL SALES…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…yeez are very nice people out there, Lads and Lassies of Blog Land… many of yeez have suggested I run the Foreword for SELF-PUBLISHING STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL SALES so that my fellow quill-scrapers may get a clear notion of what it’s about… if it can help any of yeez, that’s a…
…the beauty of an Author’s writing is in the beholding Reader’s eye…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…telling a story in the movies is so much different from rolling out a narrative in a book… p’raps that explains why so many film versions fall short of the written WURD… on screen, precious little is left to the imagination of the cinemagoer… even the tone of language and…
…Scots?… wha’s like us?… damn few, an’ they’re a’ deid…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…before yeez all go running off to the Berlitz Language School in search of translations for the header up there… it paraphrases into English (which, by the way is the ultimate foreign language for emb’dy else on the planet, but we’ll discuss that another day), simply as, ’Scots? who’s like…
…can a place be ‘alive’ ?… Guest Blogger, Authoress Kathy Sharp, tells yeez about it…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…my dear friend, Authoress Kathy Sharp, epitomises all that is good about a writer absorbing the sense of the geography around her… just have a wee peek at how she describes the ‘person’ that is the Isle of Portland… I LUV IT!… yeez’ll see what I mean when yeez read…
…what we Authors can learn from Don Vito Corleone, the ultimate Godfather…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…apart from the fact that I write crime fiction novels, far be it from me to entice yeez into a life of criminality… sure, a wee bit of murder, mayhem, and madness can go a long way… but usually only if yeez don’t get caught… Mario Puzo’s superb depiction of the…
…when yeez are engrossed in yer mobile devices, ye’re not ‘ignoring’ folks… ye’re ‘digitally disengaging’…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…ever since the ‘joys’ of mobile communication devices were visited upon the human race, the correlation with our Darwinian roots have come even more to the fore… more and more of the planet’s populace resemble the three wise monkeys… …’hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil’ as that…
…Age-ism for Authors? …never!… we’re all Peter Pans and Petra Pans…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…don’t let emb’dy ever claim yeez are to old to be doing stuff… when I was an infant growing up in Docklands Govan in Glasgow, ‘old people’ constituted men and women who had reached the heady age of 20+… then as I progressed into my teens, the upper barrier for…
…to all yeez Scots and emb’dy else who likes the haunting beauty of Celtic music… enjoy…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubUjXKK2lA …yeez’ve seen me post stuff like this before… so if yeez don’t wish to listen, just click and move along, folks, NUTHIN to see or trouble yeez here… every quill-scraper has favourite things that oft-times propel them into ‘the mood’ for certain passages of their scribbling… call it yer…
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