@andrewplord @adaddinsane Here’s an obscure fact about Eddison; his best friend as a boy was Arthur Ransome, who went on to write ‘Swallows and Amazons’. Safe to say they went in rather different literary directions.
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#WordWeavers 25/3: Would your MC enjoy the same books and shows you do? Why or why not?
There’s a lot of me in Jerya, or a lot of her in me, but she would be bamboozled by a lot of the cultural references in much of what I read/watch. I’d start her with ‘Swallows and Amazons’ and be on hand to explain things like what duffers are. And take it from there.
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15 years ago today. 14/09/2008.
#coniston #cumbria #BankGround cottage, aka #HollyHowe , in the heart of #SwallowsAndAmazons country.
#swing #boathouse #lake

#WritersCoffeeClub 8/9. Did you like to read as a child? Which books?
Avid reader from a very early age, but there’s no clearer memory than being given a copy of Swallows and Amazons to stop me dying of boredom at a wedding wen I was about nine. Imagination, adventure, and a vivid female lead; a setting that was both familiar and exotic; and as I saw later, writing that was crisp and clear.
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#WritingWonders 12/6. MC POV (not): How do you feel about marriage?
A personal story. When I was about 9 I was taken along to a wedding. To stop me dying of boredom during the speeches and dancing my Mum handed me a copy of #SwallowsandAmazons. I don’t remember a single other thing about that wedding but it’s still one of the best I’ve ever attended. #reading #books
And #arthurransome would later give me quite a lot of material in my own nonfiction writing.
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