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#ScribesAndMakers – 22nd Sept. Promotion day. Self or someone else. Or both. Damn! It’s a day too early, the next chapter of my online serialisation of my short story collection, Tales From the Demi-monde, goes live tomorrow and I don’t have a direct link to it until then. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

@AverageS My Word of the Day today is QUARRY-FACED. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments! Quarry-faced, from Middle English quarere, Medieval Latin quarreria, literally a “place where stones are squared,” from Old French quarrière , in turn derived from Vulgar Latin quadraria, from Latin quadrō, to square + -faced, from face, Middle English face, from Old French face, in turn derived from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs, form, appearance + -ed, used to form past tenses of regular verbs. Meaning, having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point (stonemasonry, of stones). The picture shows a weathered stone gothic folly tower built from rough, uncoursed grey fieldstones. This definition pretty much does what it says on the tin. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

#onthisday "Avast, Ye Mateys! Hoist Yer Colours for Talk Like a Pirate Day!" Arrrrr! All you landlubbers, prepare to be boarded. It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, so be quick about it or you’ll be walking the plank. Here are a few handy phrases you scurvy dogs can use to help you fit in as though you be one of the crew, to prevent you from being keelhauled. How to Talk Like a Pirate Arrrrr!!: Various meanings from "yes" to "I agree," to "I'm happy" or "I'm enjoying this beer." Ahoy!: Hello. Avast!: Stop and give attention. Aye!: "Yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said." Aye, aye!: "I'll get right on it, sir, as soon as my break is over." Beauty: The best possible pirate address for a woman. Always preceded by "me," as in "C'mere, me beauty." Bilge rat: The bilge is the ship's lowest level. It's loaded with ballast and slimy, reeking water. This is where bilge rats live. Grog: An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water. Or beer. Or whatever yer tippin,' if calling it that makes you happy. Landlubber: The seaman's version of "land lover," mangled by typical pirate disregard for elocution. A "lubber" is someone who does not go to sea. In a room where everyone is talking like pirates, lubber is always an insult. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

#AmReading Or, in the case The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, #AmNotReading. Whilst it sounded like an intriguing team up between the writer and the actor it prove to be an extremely difficult read and ultimately I couldn’t force myself to finish it. A tedious narrative filled with characters devoid of anything in the way of a personality. It was impossible to identify with any of the characters. Hence I abandoned it, something I rarely do, even after forcing myself to try to read it small chunks as a way of minimising the tedium. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

#onthisday The last Thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, died on this day in 1936 alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus), commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. Before European settlement, several thousand remained in the wild on Tasmania. Starting during the 19th century, they were perceived as a threat to the livestock of farmers and bounty hunting was introduced. The Thylacine is widespread in popular culture and is a cultural icon in Australia. Thylacines are universally regarded as being extinct by the scientific community, but when the species became extinct is unclear. Modelling based on reliable records indicates extinction during the 1930s or 1940s, although unconfirmed sightings of the species have led a minority of researchers to suggest it survived for several decades longer than that. More money has been dedicated to rediscovering the Thylacine than any other mammal. Sightings of possible tracks were reported throughout the 1950s and 1960s and in 1982 a sighting of a Thylacine was reported by a Tasmanian park ranger prompting an extensive two year-long search, which was kept confidential at the time, but found no evidence of any surviving Thylacines. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel