Express Yourself Monday - but on Thursday :-)

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The Express Yourself meme is a weekly jaunt brought to you by Dani at Entertaining Interests and Jackie at Bouquet of Books. At the beginning of the month the girls will post a gadget with a list of topics, something different for each week. Make sure to head on over to either of these blogs to check out the details more fully and see who else is taking part.

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This weeks topic of conversation:  What are some of your favourite author quotes?

And here are mine:

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

- Stephen King

It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- Ernest Hemingway

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams

There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write.
- Terry Pratchett

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
- Anne McCaffrey  

What are your favourite author quotes? Have you been over to the hosts to check out some more?

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Friday's here!!!

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This post is part of the 'Celebrate the Small Things' blog hop hosted by VikLit, and is for celebrating even the smallest of victories during the week. Head on over to her blog to check out more people taking part in this hop, and to sign up yourself too.

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 This week I'm celebrating:

• I'm finally better! Woop woop! Still a little tired, but no snots and no sore throat. It was touch and go on Wednesday and my voice nearly went completely but thankfully it's back to normal. I had fun trying to get my daughter off the playground that day, she could hardly hear me!
• I saw the new Star Trek film, which was brilliant! My geek-side was thoroughly satisfied and I'll probably be seeing it again. I'll post a little something on my full thoughts about it next week.
• I managed to write and submit two 2000 word essays in two days. Not great organising but they're done and gone. Now it's revision all the way!

What are you celebrating this week? Have a great weekend all, especially those enjoying the bank holiday!

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Heroes and Villains Blogfest - coming 6th June!

 

This is another blogfest from the partnership that is Dani at Entertaining Interests and Jackie at Bouquet of Books. 

All you need to do is post about your favourite heroes and villains, and we all know we've got them. They can be from books, films, tv, comics, whatever takes your fancy really.

Don't forget to head on over to the girls blogs and sign up to the list, and note the date so you can check out the others and see what they have come up with.

I'm looking forward to this one!

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Express Yourself!

 

I came across this meme a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to get involved for ages. It is hosted by Dani at Entertaining Interests and Jackie at Bouquet of Books and you can head over to either of these to check out the details more fully and see who else is taking part.

At the beginning of each month the girls will post a gadget with a list of topics for each week. This is the list for May:

 

On the Monday of each week you can then post something in relation to the topic for the week. I'm a day late with this one, but it's alright because if you don't/can't post regularly on a Monday there is still the rest of the week to post.

Head on over to the linky list if you'd like to sign up!

And so, for this weeks Express Yourself, What are you reading right now?

Picture from blog.paperblanks.com

This is the first book to be read as part of the new book club we've started at work. I'm only about 30 pages in at the moment but it's going along nicely. It's not very long, only 117 pages, so I'm hoping to whizz through this one fairly swiftly.

Then I can go and see the film!

What are you reading at the moment?

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Best and Worst Movie Remakes - courtesy of Ninja Alex!

 
Today is the day for the Ninja Captains Best and Worst Movie Remakes.

Head over to his site, or one of his excellent co-hosts to check out more contributions to this blogfest:

                             Alex J Cavanaugh

                              Stephen Tremp

                             Father Dragon Al

                                Livia Peterson

At first though this seemed to be a fairly straightforward blogfest, but as usual with these things I begin to over-think and make it far more difficult for myself.

Here is what I came up with:

Worst remake:

Picture courtesy of www.dbcovers.com

 

 Best remake:

Picture courtesy of www.moviepostershop.com

It's F-F-F-Friday!

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This post is part of the 'Celebrate the Small Things' blog hop hosted by VikLit, and is for celebrating even the smallest of victories during the week. Head on over to her blog to check out more people taking part in this hop, and to sign up yourself too.

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 This week I'm celebrating:

• I'm just glad to get through this week to be honest. I've been full of cold, waking up all bunged and I've been so tired my blog has been severely neglected.
• We've started a little book club at work. Our first read is The Great Gatsby, mostly because we want to read the book before seeing the film. I do hope the book club continues though, it sounds like lots of fun.
•  Star Trek Into Darkness is out! I'm so excited about seeing it but I'm having to wait until next Tuesday because my husband wants to see it and he's away in Edinburgh all weekend. I have been debating whether to sneak off to see it without him though, and then see it again on Tuesday! Is that too naughty?

Have a great weekend everybodies!

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Flash 500 is here!

  I meant to post this good news yesterday, but this is the first chance I've had over the weekend to get on my computer.

The Flash 500 anthology is here, and I just want to say another massive thank you to the wonderful ladies behind this venture. Carrie Sorensen and Nicole Pyles have worked so hard to get this together, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

Download Fiction 500 here. As it becomes available for different platforms I will let you know.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!


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