Does anyone else have trouble with homonyms? (Groups of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings).
There needs to be a word to describe those conversational car-crashes where you guess one version and the speaker actually intended another, as when someone asks what kind of Windows you have but [...]

I’d like to think that I’m not generally one for jokes about departed celebrities, but I’m afraid I couldn’t help but laugh when I read this comment from @blearyboy:
Maybe too soon to start talking about this, but I think we’d all like to see a Democratically Elected President of Pop after this.

…this wouldn’t be looking good.
2nd June 2009: Cubicle 7 Joins Rebellion Group.
23rd June 2009: Cubicle 7 – Adamant Entertainment Announce Partnership.
24th June 2009: Cubicle 7 – Postmortem Studios Announce Partnership.
25th June 2009: Cubicle 7 – Boxninja Announce Partnership.
First GMS, then Grim, and now Gregor!
Who’s next?
Probably someone starting with G..?
Hanrahan! Start running now! Don’t look back!
(And [...]

Hi all,
Got the an email from Jacqueline Burns and Kirsty McLachlan of the London Writers’ Club which I’ve fused together with some text from the website to produce the following:

An Evening With Marie Phillips
How to write a novel – from idea to publication
Our July speaker is Marie Phillips, author of the bestselling novel, Gods Behaving [...]

It’s often said that the best way to get a story written is just to sit down and start writing it, at the beginning.
I heartily concur with this advice, if for no other reason than that having written said beginning you’ll invariably discover that your story actually begins somewhere else entirely.
Perhaps time to rewrite what [...]

I can now do the coolest thing on my phone. I can take pictures with it, and then, get this, send those pictures to people so they can see them on their phones! And if that wasn’t cool enough… they can send me pictures back! It’s this really cool new technology called MMS!
How awesome is [...]

One of my memories of my grandfather is that his television used to show cinema adverts.
Back home, in London, in the huge Thames/LWT television region that covered some eight million people, we only got slick, national adverts, for slick national products. But my grandfather lived in Somerset, in the much smaller HTV-West region, where they [...]

This post is perhaps taking advance notice to a ridiculous extreme, but just for the record, and because, well, I am going to be there… I’ll be at the Discworld convention 2010, run by my very good friend Brian Nisbet. I was at the last convention in 2008 (it’s run every other year) and it [...]

Kelly Holmes is not fully British, says BNP MEP Andrew Brons.
That’s Dame Kelly Holmes and plain, old Mister Andrew Brons, for those keeping score.

A while ago I posted about the next meeting of the London Writers’ Club. Well that meeting (June 9th) was postponed because of the tube strike, and is instead on tomorrow night (Tuesday 16th June).
This is good for me, as I couldn’t make last Tuesday.
Anyhow, I’ll be there. If anyone’s into writing and fancies a [...]