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'I' itis, I'm getting better, I think
I have a confession. it's hard to stand up and admit it, but here goes (gulp) I have 'I'itis. For those who are not aware of this condition, it occurs where you use I too often and inappropriately in stories. It started when I was knee high ...
suebrown - 2008/01/19 - 7:32am - 24 comments
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Unknotting the digit
So there I was, banging away at the keyboard, smoke coming out of it due to the speed of my single digit frenzy, proud that I can type at least ten words a minute as long as said words are not too long. ...
suebrown - 2008/01/27 - 3:13am - 26 comments
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verbal diarrhoea
Once again, I have been thinking. This is a dangerous thing for me and was sparked by a comment made on the latest instalment of Olivia Twist. Now I have gotten my shameless plug out of my system, one of the commenters (is that the right term?) Annette sa ...
suebrown - 2008/02/01 - 1:30pm - 13 comments
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Dear Auntie Enid
Dear Auntie Enid, I am writing to you because you are so wise and you give people advice through your lovely newspaper for nothing. ...
suebrown - 2008/02/07 - 10:33am - 3 comments
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Dear Worried of Hartlepool
Dear Worried of Hartlepool, I have read you letter with some concern. You appear to have let yourself go slightly. Your wife, being more sensible and of a higher intelligence has left you and you wonder why? Perhaps, if you had got off your backside and g ...
suebrown - 2008/02/09 - 9:20am - 2 comments
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The meaning of life
As I sit here, contemplating my navel, pulling out the inevitable fluff and trying to think of how Olivia is going to get out of the sinister clutches of Bill Sykes, I am having one of my normal thrice a day incidents of writers block. ...
suebrown - 2008/02/16 - 6:03am - 9 comments
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Drop off
I have noticed that there appears to be a bit of a drop off re reader hits for my stories. I was wondering if it's because they are bad stories (sob; hits head against convenient brick wall) or if it's just a general trend as there is so much go ...
suebrown - 2008/02/19 - 11:14am - 12 comments
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What would you do?
She who must obeyed and I are going to the pictures tonight. We are seeing a film called The Bucket List. ...
suebrown - 2008/02/23 - 5:47am - 8 comments
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Mirror mirror on the wall...
A friend of mine told me this little snippet: Pick up a mirror, lie on your back and look at the reflection of your face; this is what you looked like ten years ago. Sit up and look at your face in the mirror; this is obviously what you look like now. Put ...
suebrown - 2008/03/16 - 10:46am - 9 comments
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Whoopie, I'm on holiday!
Just to let you all know that I will be on holiday for one week from Saturday; so I won't be doing any more Orphan until I get back. (Hooray I hear you shout). ...
suebrown - 2008/03/20 - 6:40am - 3 comments
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Gabyzone down?
Author: Susan Brown suebrown's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) I haven't been able to access Gabyzone since early today. is it just me or is there a problem? Hugs Sue ...
suebrown - 2008/03/30 - 1:13pm - 4 comments
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Jezzi takes up the challenge.
Author: Susan Brown suebrown's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Jezzi has said that she would like to continue The Challenge and I look forward to seeing her chapter. Sue. ...
suebrown - 2008/04/05 - 12:31pm
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Contemplating my navel
As I sit here contemplating my navel and extracting dust from said indentation, my mind wonders… ...
suebrown - 2008/04/11 - 5:46am - 6 comments
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Orphan 14- I've dun it again!
There I was last night huddling over a dim candle, blanket around my shoulders, shivering into my cocoa, trying to make sense of the latest chapter of Orphan. In the end, I noticed the clock and decided that I would just have to send it out as it was. ...
suebrown - 2008/04/16 - 1:58am - 2 comments
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Normal service will be resumed...
I would like to apologise to my several readers (including my dog Gemma, and cats, Biscuit and Ellie), for the infrequent updates to my stories. It is a tale of woe to match any saga. There I was on the Internet, surfing away merrily, a light song on my l ...
suebrown - 2008/05/28 - 7:17am - 4 comments
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Dyslexia- a pain in the bum!
My broadband is back and finally working OK, (Wooohoo!)No more having to speak Outer Mongolianese to sort out my internet woes. Anyway, I was going to start a new chapter of Working Girl. To refresh my poor memory, I went back over the previous chapter an ...
suebrown - 2008/05/31 - 4:58am - 9 comments
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Not sure what to do.
Looking at the lack of comments on the latest chapter of Working Girl (1 comment- thanks stanman), I was thinking maybe that the story may not grip the readers as much as I hoped. If that is the case, I feel that it may be a good idea to give her a rest f ...
suebrown - 2008/06/16 - 10:50am - 8 comments
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Billy Joel
I was just listening to one of my favorite tracks by Billie Joel, We did'nt start the fire: Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, ...
suebrown - 2008/06/20 - 3:53pm - 6 comments
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Cats
Here I am sitting in sunny, if very blowy Lincolnshire, that's in the UK for those, like me who never paid attention in geography lessons. I have lost count of the amount of times I have had to let Ellie Mae and Biscuit (our cats) in and out of the h ...
suebrown - 2008/06/22 - 10:03am - 10 comments
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One is on holiday from the weekend
It is time for the annual pilgrimage to see ones grandchild. I know you say, she can’t be that old, she writes like an overactive teenager on steroids. (you do say that, don’t you?) ...
suebrown - 2008/07/02 - 3:27am - 4 comments