What did you blog about today?

[Old_Man_Steve2016]

I thought this thread was all about advertising for SFF blog posts? I was way out in left field!

I'll post more Wattpad tips as I work my way through their site.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

I thought this thread was all about advertising for SFF blog posts? I was way out in left field!

I'll post more Wattpad tips as I work my way through their site.

It was a timely reminder that I can blog on here - thank you

Well I did have a debate over Named Person and my blog with a local council employee that is being retweeted today. Clare's case has a lot of similarities with mine except she wants (and her children want) her children to go to school whereas I wanted to keep mine out of school. Strange how the same person was giving her one argument and me the other.

Anyway a break from Named Person today:
Fibromyalgia Fightback - Week Two update

After years of food diaries and trial and error I've put together a diet that appears to be helping (of course it could just be the menopause or a remission but it's the fourth time I've tried a similar one and it appears to have worked so I am hopeful). It works for me (at the very least it has removed some of my worse skin issues and mouth issues etc)- it probably won't work for everyone but I figured it might work for some.

 

[DZara]

Thanks I forget this site has blogs. Even after six years I still don't use the site as I should.

There are blogs here??? New to me, but I'm new. Good to know.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

There are blogs here??? New to me, but I'm new. Good to know.

I've been here six years and only found them last year. I do tend to live life in a haze though.

 

[Old_Man_Steve2016]

After years of food diaries and trial and error I've put together a diet that appears to be helping

I certainly wish you luck with the adjusted diet. I had a co-worker here in Korea who had a beef enzyme allergy. She couldn't eat anything with beef, essentially. The restaurants out here are not the most forthcoming on their menus so she essentially avoided restaurants except for very specific ones since it was life and death issue for her.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

I certainly wish you luck with the adjusted diet. I had a co-worker here in Korea who had a beef enzyme allergy. She couldn't eat anything with beef, essentially. The restaurants out here are not the most forthcoming on their menus so she essentially avoided restaurants except for very specific ones since it was life and death issue for her.

I haven't touched beef or pork in about three years - it's not worth the pain that comes from it. Dairy is my major one. I'm lucky in that it, for whatever reason, only swells my left side but if it were to swell both then because my tongue goes and my throat closes it could be serious. Although I'd had it so long I didn't know my mouth was constantly swollen until I went vegan for a time on a whim.

 

[DZara]

My oldest son wrote most of this story - I did the polishing. So stinkin' proud of him!

Zaragoza Stories: To the Slaughter, Part One

 

[The Big Peat]

Anya, have you ever heard of the Fodmap diet? We tried that one with my mum and got some results (alas, she is not good at being disciplined with food).

Vaz's blog post had me agog. Thaddeus has reminded me that the vile serf needs to write more Sir Edric. Cathbad has me intrigued. I'm still working through the others. Hmm... what to blog myself, there be the question.

 

[Cathbad]

Darganau: Autobiography of a Dragon Part III is now up!

(And it's a bit longer).

 

[Cathbad]

Posted: My review of P.J. Strebor's Uncommon Purpose. You can read it at Cathbad's F&SF Short Story Blog: Uncommon Purpose

(And it's posted only a month later than I intended!)

 

[DZara]

Part Two today. And I miscounted - not a five-part story, but a six-part story - and that's a SHORT story for my kid!

Zaragoza Stories: To the Slaughter, Part Two

 

[Cathbad]

Darganau: Autobiography of a Dragon Part IV is now up!

 

[millymollymo]

Based on the work I've been doing with some of the best small and indie presses in the lands, here's a few REALLY REALLY REALLY helpful tips on how to avoid the worst. Those presses either deliberately set up to exploit the writer or the system, those who are not paying attention to the contract they're sending to authors, or ...well any other pitfall.
Do Your Research: A Guide to Avoiding Trouble.

 

[Gonk the Insane]

Great post, @millymollymo , and full of really useful information

 

[millymollymo]

Thank's Gonk

 

[DZara]

Part Three - still trying to fix the HTML weirdness at the end, but the story's fine.

Zaragoza Stories - To the Slaughter, Part Three

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Due to getting slightly tipsy with my mum, Mayhem is slightly late going up.

CHAPTER FOUR PART TWO: TWENTY MILLION REASONS

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I'm not blogging this week - I have a fab guest post going up tomorrow by @Quellist instead, but this seemed a good thread to pop this in:


‘The Wishing Bridge’ – a short fiction exclusive to mailing list subscribers: Newsletter - Jo Zebedee

‘At a certain time of year, the wind whips dandelion clocks into the air. They carry to the bridge to catch in its wire mesh. They line it, fifty of them, sometimes a hundred, trapped and waiting.’

Sometimes a wish is the only hope left.

 

[Cathbad]

‘The Wishing Bridge’

I love the story, Jo! Made me smile on this bleak day.

 

[DZara]

Beautiful work, Jo. I got the email this morning, and read it straight off. Easy reading.

Was it fiction? I found myself wondering...