Author: Nat

May 22, 2009 by

Acceptance!

I’ve had another short piece accepted by Flashes In The Dark (same people who accepted Trapped). It’s called Slimming, and it’ll appear on Tuesday under “NKKingston”. I’ll link it from appropriate “Writing as” page when it’s up.

Slimming is a piece I originally wrote for my uni writer’s group a few years back. I changed the PoV and lopped about five hundred words off prior to submitting. With my new job, I’ve been feeling so snowed under and a bit stressed that I wanted something out there that I knew I’d get a quick response on (it took longer than last time, when Flashes got back to me within the hour!). I’m torn between wanting to write and wanting to read, and reading’s been winning because it doesn’t involve a computer. That, and I’m really enjoying Jake Arnott’s Long Firm trilogy, and having spent last night at a friend’s book launch (I’ll talk about that properly later) I have another book I’m dying to get to, let alone the pile by the bed.

May 20, 2009 by

Reviews: Birmingham Royal Ballet

The Dance House

The Dance House

Last night, I went to the ballet. I’m not sure how long it’s been since I last went – I vaguely recall that my mother bought the first two Harry Potter books to keep my sister and I entertained – and it’s only the third ballet I’ve seen. The others were the Nutcracker and the Gay Swan Lake.

Anyway, last night the Birmingham Royal Ballet were in town, and the costumes on the poster looked pretty. So I went and talked some people into joining me.

(this is a review of sorts. Of rambling sorts. By someone who knows very little about ballet. Hence, it’s a review without a grade)

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May 18, 2009 by

Hah!

It took some fiddling, and not using the specific blogger importer, but I’ve done it! I’ve imported everything from blogpost. We are ready to roll!