Rebecca Holmes
51 years old
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waiting for stupid marmalade to reach setting point so I can get on with everything else I should have done hours ago.Information
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Are you a ...?Writer published in mags, etcWhat genre do you primarily write in?Short fictionIf you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?General FictionAre your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?Thomas Hardy, Anne Tyler, Anita Shreve, Colm Toibin, Patrick Gale, Sue Miller, + too many others to mentionAnd your seven all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)Jane Eyre Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge In the Place of Fallen Leaves - Tim Pears Ladder of Years - Anne Tyler To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf The Blackwater Lightship - Colm ToibinWhat are your working habits when you write?ProcastinatoryAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Prefer to let rip and edit afterwardsYour ultimate writing ambition?Successful novels, of courseYour worst habit?Letting myself be too easily put off Writing long, tedious drafts Work too slowlyYour opinion on the books industry?Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get throughWhere do you write?Mostly at home, but various places, as long as I'm left alone. I've been known to write stories on the shores of Coniston Water, in motorway service stations, or even sitting in the car in a supermarket car park.What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?I have too many books to read. I can't write without coffee and chocolate
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Rebecca Holmes waiting for stupid marmalade to reach setting point so I can get on with everything else I should have done hours ago. - 8 hours ago
BP commented on Rebecca Holmes's wall:Mountiain in the Lake District. And I was speaking runes btw, sorry to be obscure.
- 10 hours agoBP commented on Rebecca Holmes's wall:
I'm sure they're very nice steeds. But how do they fare in the mountains?
- 2 days agoRebecca Holmes back from three days in the Lakes and already suffering mountain withdrawal
- 6 days ago
Inktrailer commented on Rebecca Holmes's wall:did you get everything susse3d out in Hanley? is your daughter all set to go? i left Stoke that day about 1pm:p going back tomorrow for one last week in work though:-( anything you're needing to know that i might be able to help with?
- 7 days agoRebecca Holmes actually got round to sunbathing for half an hour in the garden this aftenoon because realised it might be the last chance for a while. Lovely, lovely hot sun, why do you have to go away when I'm just getting to know you?
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Caducean Whisks commented on Rebecca Holmes's wall:Hope your little plum tree has plummed up your larder. :) My little plum tree stopped sulking this year and gave abundantly - then a fox scaled the branches and ate them all - yes!
- 9 days agoInktrailer commented on Rebecca Holmes's wall:
Oh charming, all I wanted was a bag of cake crumbs and you've even licked them up? Bah!
- 11 days agoRebecca Holmes Does anyone know why editing a story you're struggling to knock into shape makes you sleepy?
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7th July 2010
Taking Liberties With Historical Characters. How Far is Too Far?
speculative fiction, historical characters, horror, Lake District, poets
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28th May 2010Why I'm Not Speaking To My Cat
cat, garden, birds, fledglings 20 Comments -
14th November 2009First hand accounts - Gold dust for writers
Writing, eye witness accounts, Coventry 11 Comments -
3rd September 2009I have a little plum tree
Fruit, seasons 14 Comments
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by BP 8 hours agoMountiain in the Lake District. And I was speaking runes btw, sorry to be obscure. -
by Inktrailer 6 days agodid you get everything susse3d out in Hanley? is your daughter all set to go? i left Stoke that day about 1pm:p going back tomorrow for one last week in work though:-( anything you're needing to know that i might be able to help with? -
by Caducean Whisks 9 days agoHope your little plum tree has plummed up your larder. :) My little plum tree stopped sulking this year and gave abundantly - then a fox scaled the branches and ate them all - yes! -
by Inktrailer 9 days agoOh charming, all I wanted was a bag of cake crumbs and you've even licked them up? Bah!
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by Jess The Cat 14 days agohaha no I'm not Jess The Cat from Post Man Pat that wud make me a celebrity It's just a nickname I've been branded with :) Yeah I often wonder wat music Kurt nd Nirvana wud bring out if he were still here but I'm sure it'd be as kick ass as their album 'Never Mind' -
by maryluv 16 days agoHave you noticed that 'Simples' is listed in today's birthday honours! He's stalking you. -
by Gerry 17 days ago"No offence to Simples but, erm, no." Don't worry, we wouldn't tell Simples, the poor sensitive little commercial spin-off. -
by acorn 17 days agoWe went to Hvar town and stayed in an old lady/local entrepreneur's apartment. It must have changed a lot although they have really tried to protect it and banned hotel developments - hence the old ladies with spare rooms cleaning up.
btw that blessed Meercat has a book deal with Ebury (Random House): http://www.thebookseller.com/news/120110-simples-ebury-to-publish-the-meerkat.html
