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Author Archives: beckydeans
The Journey To Publication by Elli Woollard – this is brilliant!
Publication, publication; that’s your final destination. Think of words you want to say, then stare at Twitter half the day. Publication, publication. Leave aside procrastination! Write your socks … Source: The Journey To Publication by Elli Woollard
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Review of Lost on Mars by Paul Magrs
I can’t wait to read the second instalment of this trilogy. I am still thinking about the characters and the hard life they led on Mars, trying to grow enough to eat, like early settlers in the United States. And … Continue reading
Posted in Novel review, Uncategorized
Tagged colonisation, Mars, Paul Magrs, pioneers, settlers, Writing, YAfiction, YAspace, young adult fiction
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Mother – a poem #amwriting
Mother The buzzards are circling your heart Diggers rip your stomach Turn your soil They cut your trees because they could Ancient oak and ash hacked away Their remains a stubby finger stuck up to the people But still you … Continue reading
Everything in the Garden is Rosy
I write this in response to my friend Anna commenting on how full my garden looked last Thursday, and because of our conversation about how the world of Facebook is fake, or on the edge. Everything in the Garden … Continue reading
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Hedgehog a poem for #hedgehogawarenessweek
This week my Friday post is dedicated to the hedgehog, a disappearing species. I recently won a lovely bag on Twitter from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society packed full of goodies and it has opened my eyes to the threat … Continue reading
Are you being influenced? #amediting
I recently opened a box that had been moving between lofts, and found myself a present, a book of poetry written down from 1993 to 1995, a flowery hardback book with fountain-pen entries, signed just in case. Now, at the … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Creative writing, creative writing degree, Hugo Williams, influences, poetry, trains
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Too Many Stars Have Gone Out This Year #amwriting #music #recordstoreday2016
I went to a record store yesterday and bought my dad the latest David Bowie recording on CD. I didn’t think to buy the latest Prince album as well. I had previously bought the Bowie from a well known online … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, writing
Tagged Brother Beyond, David Bowie, MARRS, Michael Jackson, Prince, recordstoreday, shoplocal
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Simon Says Three: Your Sweetness is my Weakness
Originally posted on beckydeans:
Simon Says Three Your Sweetness is my weakness So here we were for the jam. I’ve always liked the idea of a jam, if I’m honest, though not the fruit kind. More, the getting…
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Lydia -for Lydia Lawrence #amwriting #strongwomen
Good golly miss Molly Did you marry a man with a miner’s lamp and No brolly? Didn’t you know that the marriage bed came sprinkled with Soot? Did he blind you With a title, then tempt you with a butty? … Continue reading
Posted in local history, poetry, secret history
Tagged DH Lawrence, Eastwood, Leonard Bast, Lydia Lawrence, Mining, Nottinghamshire, Victorians
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Friends of Codnor Common: History of Codnor Common:
Codnor Common used to be a much larger area, stretching almost up towards Denby. The 1835 map certainly suggests as much. The whole area of Codnor was given to William Peverel, the illegitimate son of William the conqueror, after the … Continue reading
Posted in Codnor Common, Derbyshire Ripley, local history, secret history, trenches
Tagged Henry Grey, Henry Vernon, Scarlet Closes, social history
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