Blogs of note this week

http://jodyhedlund.blogspot.co.uk/
http://confessionsofanaspiringnovelist.blogspot.co.uk

Soho Square in Sun

Writers' London: Working Day

I need to do some budgeting. Is there

anything more calculated to send one into

a tailspin? At least with income, expenditure

and a calculator, I can find out where I have

to make adjustments. And it's sunny

enough to work out in the yard, yay.

In view of the fact that I did a great deal 
of work yesterday I am happy to do filing

today. Write first, other things later.

Nature in the city, plus some reality

Just so you know, I have reached the
section in my Writers' Guide (work in progress)
on writers' intolerances. There are so many, 
since reality can be massively offensive 
to the writer trying either to write or think.
One of my favourite tales is the one of Kingsley 
Amis striding up to a bar (possibly in Camden
Town) and remonstrating loudly that he wanted
them to turn the musak down, preferably off. 

Today, on my way to the supermarket, 
I passed a set of road diggers whose digging
machines were issuing a decibel-din that 
was quite above that of human tolerance. 
I then negotiated shelves of breakfast
cereals with titles like 'Krave' and 
the presence in the aisles, heaving with
lunchtime shoppers, of those huge goods
delivery cages being unpacked and
shelved. A nation of shopkeepers? We
have become a nation of bad shopkeepers.
(Oh, of course, the shops would say it 
wasn't their fault: delivery lorries were late, 
stuck in traffic, there was a breakdown, 
roadworks . . . any excuse.) As I said,
a post about everyday writers' intolerances.
If you have any to add, please do - and 
thanks for reading. 

Later I found this on intolerance and 'tolerations' 
from Linda Formichelli of The Renegade Writer


Lilies in Regent's Park - and I actually 

managed to keep the camera still

Regent's Park gardeners excelled 

themselves with their Diamond Jubilee

tribute: a whole section of the garden on 

the left of Broad Walk has been planted

in a precision Union Flag design
 

Blogs of note this week

http://allisonwinnscotch.blogspot.co.uk/

http://inkthinkerblog.com/

http://www.successful-blog.com/category/writing/

http://goinswriter.com/

http://janefriedman.com/

http://www.thecreativepenn.com/

http://www.thewriterssite.com/direct_pages/writing_blogs.php

http://simplyjan.wordpress.com