I mean, come to that there was a time when we didnât have medicine of any effective kind and people were having a lot more babies then too. There was a time when most people living in awful squalor and had heaps of babies. There was a time â etc. She thinks of herself as clever ones.
In his own ears briefly noticing that different words mean different things probably feels highly sophisticated. A decades long project of the American right (now emulated here) is to drain words of their meaning, so we should welcome this momentary, flawed lapse. But it wonât lead anywhere.
Glue-eating bacteria train art restorer to feed them glue
As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art restoration, her mother's own area of expertise.
Are you talking specifically about journalistic type writing? Or is it all kinds of information that you prefer to receive on the page rather than in a video?
Was he killed at the Battle for Brest?
When do we get to the bit where Herod has his head chopped off and served up on a plate?
From the writerâs point of view there are jolly good reasons why you wouldnât submit a proposal in the form of a completed manuscript but if you do and it happens to be just the book someone is keen to publish then happy days all round, no?
My OH is a literary agent (not non-fic, soz) and says, sure, an agent/publisher normally wants to see three chapters and a synopsis first but if the writer has already written all the other chapters too thatâs not, in itself, a problem. But it is not going to short-circuit editorial either.
Good grief. The Sheriffâs Office in Taylor County, Florida now telling those refusing to evacuate to write their name in permanent marker on an arm or leg to help identification. #HurricaneHelene
