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The DIYist
If you want to understand ‘the social web’ and where it’s going, take a look at what the DIYists are up to.
For years, DIY was the bastion of the weekend jobbing dad. Men would buy tool belts, low-quality hand drills and set about putting up shelves, bleeding radiators or hanging pictures. And their bible was the Reader’s Digest Complete Do-it-yourself Manual. The appeal of DIY is really the time when you’re NOT doing DIY and you look at the thing you did and think “I did that, all by myself”. There’s immense pride in DIY. And the pride can be totally disproportionate to the effort you put in. You can bang a nail into your bathroom wall with a shoe and still feel pretty pleased with yourself when you look up at that C. M. Coolidge every time you perform your ablutions. -
A Novel Use of Twitter
People use Twitter in so many ways. It’s a chat client, it’s a research tool, it’s a place for breaking news, it’s a way to let the world how you feel. I’m not even going to attempt to list all the uses here. This post is J U S T for those who read and write novels. Are you one?
If so, perhaps you too have got a literary pearl in the workings… But just like me… you can’t get started. The days fly away before you can catch the pen, coloured with work, work, work, drinks at the pub, friends, parties, dogs in the park, laundry, dishes … no time to write. We tell ourselves we’re very, very busy.
This is how the world have missed out on the most wonderful stories.
But not anymore! We’ve got Twitter. Twitter is for the aspiring writer what the dumbbells are for the stud in the gym. 140 characters a day, 365 days a year makes a story of 51100 characters. For the writer, this is an exercise in constraint and eloquence, for the reader, this becomes the stories we’ve missed out on so far.
You know you can do it..140 char every day. It’s good for you. Post your story to #140novel. Or read mine:)
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Time for tea
To celebrate the end of another packed, exciting week at MxM, we had tea and cake. Tim is an advocate of proper tea, made from leaves, in a pot; so I took this picture for him of a sketch I saw in Howies on Carnaby St.
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