Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Nov 24, 2009, 11:20 am
Okay, on the 11th September, this was the state of play as regarding dating: Introductory messages received: 0 Introductory messages sent: 9 (well, I've actually sent 10, but 2 were to the same g...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Nov 23, 2009, 1:14 pm
Okay, I had this damn fool notion that I could get the book done by early December if I devoted most of my evenings to working on it. That didn't seem realistic half an hour ago, when I was still ...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Nov 14, 2009, 5:54 am
Would you believe it's almost two years since I started writing the first draft of 'An Alternative History of Balesley Green'? I don't know the exact date I opened a new Word document ...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Oct 28, 2009, 3:57 am
I was asked this morning 'How on earth do crime writers write crime? How do they enjoy it? How do they sleep?'. Note that this was with respect to portraying gruesome murder, as opposed to a c...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Oct 20, 2009, 2:14 am
Saturday was the tweet-up - an excellent meeting of the cream of this country's cognoscenti - while Sunday was marred by something happening to my face. I don't know what it was, but it felt l...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Sep 25, 2009, 6:43 am
Reading the Peter Jackson biography, then watching 'The Frighteners' director's cut, then watching some of the bonus features from the film has given me a hankering to shoot another short ...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Sep 11, 2009, 12:51 pm
Okay, after mentioning my intention to trying the dating thing again, I thought I would keep track of some numbers, because after saying that it was all about numbers it would be churlish of me to try...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 28, 2009, 2:22 am
Good though it is, reading the biography of Peter Jackson is perhaps a mistake for me at the moment, leading as it is to notions of making films again*. These notions are in turn making me impatient t...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 21, 2009, 10:24 am
After hearing and participating in many discussions about this since taking an interest in writing, I'm writing a blog post about it. However, I'm not interested discussing past practice nor a...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 21, 2009, 4:53 am

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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 20, 2009, 5:16 am
A little while ago I read this blog post by fellow Twitterer (and Shamus award nominee) Dave White: Dating Advice from Dave. It includes six excellent rules for dating (explained in more detail in his...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 20, 2009, 4:57 am
I twittered this morning that I was sad to report that it appears possible to lose weight by eating fewer biscuits. This comes after I put on about half a stone thanks to a few weeks of no exercise ar...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 11, 2009, 2:39 pm
Had to post this. I don't know how long ago I answered these questions on a dating site, but today I got a flowchart of my dating preferences. Yes, a flowchart. Still, by and large, I can't ar...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 9, 2009, 10:24 am
I've just returned to my flat after watching G.I.Joe and I feel... dissatisfied. Not with the film. My expectations weren't high and it delivered on that by being pretty non-descript, though ...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Aug 7, 2009, 12:04 pm

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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Jul 18, 2009, 9:20 am
After finally getting round the other day to figuring out all the days on which the action takes place in Balesley Green, I've now just done something else I should have done ages ago - listed all...
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Vincent H. posted an article on Dragons Fandango - Jul 18, 2009, 7:34 am
For the first time in a couple of weeks, I was physically working on the manuscript for Balesley Green this morning, tidying up Chapter 20. This followed a long process of figuring out exactly what sc...
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