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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: Maps!
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Wednesday, 1 October 2014. So, as I wait for the latest beta version of Elite: Dangerous to download I thought I'd do a quick blog about my recent writing escapades. For the last few attempts at a story I've followed a simple writing premise:. Write to buggery, off the top of my head. But this time I'd like to fit the places together. I need a map! Following Frodo as he journeyed onwards towards the Lonely Mountain. Fill in some of the main parts that I am sure of now and fill in the rest as I go? About ...
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: February 2014
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Tuesday, 4 February 2014. Square One Here I Come. Sadly, I find myself agentless. I guess these things happen but now I feel like I'm back at square one. Instead of being all sad about it I thought I'd come up with a list of all the things I've missed doing while trying to get an agent. Writing synopsissseses. I don't know how I get through the day not doing these. Sending queries from the wrong email address. At least it isn't kinkyleatherboy@gmail.com or MarkIsA@hotmail.com. Posted by Mark Jones.
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: Stuck in my cave. My Space Cave with lasers!!!!
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Monday, 25 August 2014. Stuck in my cave. My Space Cave with lasers! Wrote blog about coming out of his writing cave. It made me feel a bit guilty as, a bit like him but much worse, I haven't blogged for a donkey's yonk. Unlike him I haven't really been writing regularly, because my current writing cave zooms through space at super fast speeds and has lasers attached. It doesn't really involve writing. I've probably just got to avoid the 27 hour non-stop, in my pants sessions. I don't think Lauren wo...
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: April 2014
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Sunday, 27 April 2014. Techno-geeky Nonsense #4: Mucking about with Maps. I've been mucking about with maps for a while, for work and for some other sites. I also put together a prototype of a book tour map that people could add events to. You can see it here. It's not really finished and I'm not sure if I'll get around to finishing it. The events won't persist so you can't send links to people and if you leave the page they'll probably disappear. It's just a little test really. As I'm cool like that.
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: November 2013
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Wednesday, 6 November 2013. Amazing Writing Advice #26: The Idea Stalker. WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS FROM? I hear people cry, wherever I go, high and low. WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS FROM? I hear people cry. Enough, dodgy rhymes and all-caps shouting. I will tell you how to find ideas, for I AM THE IDEA STALKER. Driving in a car chase. Undertaking brain surgery on the pilot of a jumbo jet as he tries to land the plane. Which is full of snakes. Sidling past zombies holding a stack of cymbals. Especially ...
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: May 2014
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Thursday, 15 May 2014. It had been days. Not so much a a kitten's sneeze of wind. The water looked frozen it was so still. My little boat, shallow and leaky. Planks crumbling and creaky. Water tricking though the gaps, snaking along the joins and pooling around my red, raw feet. The sun was up there somewhere in the dreaded brightness. I needed a hat. And a coast line. And an idea. But now I drifted. And on the horizon, clouds; a coast; the promise of things to come. And while I wait, I fish.
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: Kurly's Poetry
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Monday, 13 October 2014. A quick post about Kurly McGeachie. Who came to the writing group I help run at Ludlow Library on Saturday. It was a great, engaging workshop involving lots of rap/poetry and included Sonnet 18 to 'Breathe' by the Prodigy which was an entertaining mix. He was probably lucky I didn't start dancing. But you know this is just excuse to put up the short weird poem I wrote (short? Where did you find that monster crab? I stole it from the madman's lab,. Posted by Mark Jones.
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: October 2014
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Monday, 13 October 2014. A quick post about Kurly McGeachie. Who came to the writing group I help run at Ludlow Library on Saturday. It was a great, engaging workshop involving lots of rap/poetry and included Sonnet 18 to 'Breathe' by the Prodigy which was an entertaining mix. He was probably lucky I didn't start dancing. But you know this is just excuse to put up the short weird poem I wrote (short? Where did you find that monster crab? I stole it from the madman's lab,. Posted by Mark Jones. Now I just...
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: March 2014
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014. Amazing Writing Advice #29: Ask Mark (Definitely not Julia). Here I answer some more questions from budding authors that I in no way stole from an #askagent by Julia Churchill. They are all genuine queries sent to me here at my blog because I get lots of people asking me things and stuff, like. Do agents make allowances for new writers who make schoolboy errors and are scared stiff of the submission process? Agents really like this font or maybe. Or always best in 3rd person?
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Thoughts by Monkeys with Typewriters: August 2014
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Monday, 25 August 2014. Stuck in my cave. My Space Cave with lasers! Wrote blog about coming out of his writing cave. It made me feel a bit guilty as, a bit like him but much worse, I haven't blogged for a donkey's yonk. Unlike him I haven't really been writing regularly, because my current writing cave zooms through space at super fast speeds and has lasers attached. It doesn't really involve writing. I've probably just got to avoid the 27 hour non-stop, in my pants sessions. I don't think Lauren wo...
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