A.S. Thomson

  • KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I know I’m a day late but this post is to belatedly wish Dr. Seuss a Happy Birthday and to say a heartfelt thanks for writing my Most Favourite Book In The World Ever. Yes, dear reader, in this instance those capitals are necessary. What book am I talking about? Why, “Oh,…

  • Snowdrops

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] The snowdrops are out. When I was a baby my dad called me snowdrop: I was a spring baby and  the name of my mum’s ward in the maternity hospital was the Snowdrop Ward. My dad would have been 84 on the 17th of this month. Happy Birthday, Dad. [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com]

  • Review of If I Never See You Again

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] We’ve all heard the old adage that we ‘shouldn’t judge a book by its cover’ and in the case of If I Never See You Again by Irish writer Niamh O’Connor, this couldn’t be more true. The cover doesn’t do justice to the intelligence and

  • Book Review: Dark Blood by Stuart MacBride

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I am a big Stuart MacBride fan. His Logan McRae crime series never fails to delight me and the man himself is far lovelier than his gory prose might lead you to believe – he has been a judge in a children’s writing competition my writing group ran. Dark Blood didn’t disappoint.…

  • Losing My Religion

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I was awoken at 5:30 am on the morning my father died from lung cancer. My mother had come into my room screaming, yelling in anguish at her husband’s fading. I ran to his room where the rattle from his remaining lung played like the noise of a child running his stick…

  • Review of The Business Of Dying by Simon Kernick

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] The Business of Dying is the debut novel by successful crime writer Simon Kernick. It tells the story of Dennis Milne, a copper who also kills people

  • What Foot Do You Kick With?

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Just for fun, today I took the Belief-O-Matic Find Your Faith quiz. The faiths I most agree with, apparently, are Theravada Buddhism (100%), Unitarian Universalism (94%), Secular Humanism (90%), Liberal Quakers (87%) and Mahayana Buddhism (74%). I was rather disturbed, however, to find that I am 37% in agreement with Scientology. So…

  • Not One Good Day

    Today has been the shittiest day in the history of shitty days. Pardon my French. But really…

  • Ideas Are Like Buses

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Ideas. They’re a bit like buses, aren’t they? You can sit around for ages, weeks sometimes, staring at a blank page until snow blindness sets in. Then just as you are about to surrender all hope

  • Writer’s Block

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Fresh page, new start Story told from the heart Words fail, don’t fit Throw away what’s writ. Fresh page, start again White space, idle pen Verbs, nouns don’t knit Throwaway what’s writ. Fresh page, another try Plot, theme, wave goodbye Bright idea not lit Throw away what’s writ Best seller, sure-fire hit?…

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