I've an ambitious plan for the rest of my life - drama queens don't do mere plans for the day or the week, you know - which is to write 10,000 words a week. Sounds overly ambitious in that it's a lot of words, and overly arrogant in that not many people can write 1,000 good words a day so why blather? But a girl's gotta do...
And a girl's gotta do other things too, like keep the garden tidy, her wits about her while interacting with strangers and managing to wear the right outfit to the right do. All of which I've been, shall we say, a bit slipshod lately. Anyway, The Cunning Plan (thank you Ben Elton et al), is to remind myself when I wrote what on this blog, as it kindly provides a date stamp at the bottom of each post. So there'll be links to the hubpages essays I write and others that I've found stimulating over the course of the previous day. I've a diary posted in hubpages too that for intuitive reasons need to keep updated, so I've to give myself a clue what topic I wrote on when, through this date-stamped blog. If this reads as though I'm muttering to myself a tad antisocially, please forgive me. Experience has taught me that the nuances of why decisions were made can be crucial to one's identity, and can be lost without aide memoires.
So two of today's hubs are book-related. One is on a fringe event organised by author Kate Kerrigan called The Good Room, an event that was a resounding success. It was great fun and promises even more throughout the year.
And the other is about Pauline McLynn's new series Shameless, which is a television series about English people with Irish names and accents that is a gritty slice of life. Apart from exfoliation, I love grittiness once-removed, and when you see the fast-moving, funny and frightening drama that is Shameless, you'll see why.
Posted on hubpages today: The Good Room, Kate Kerrigan; and Mrs Doyle's Makeover, Pauline McLynn, (plus the Maura capsule).
