I must recommend the Guardian’s style guide – - it’s such a excellent combination of useful information, useless information, British-ness, self depreciation, and more wit than one would normally expect from an internal office document, even one intended for writers.
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Dear Grauniad…*
Posted in Alex Draven, language, writing on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Halloween, and a blessed Samhain!
Posted in Alex Draven, Britain, Society, events, life on October 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is one of my favourite times of year, and I’m posting today, talking about Whitby.
What do I mean, Whitby?
Whitby.
1) A small seaside town and fishing port on the north east coast of Yorkshire, famous for it’s jet.
2) An important medieval abbey. See also St Hilda (Abbess)
3) “a gathering of as many goths [...]
Alex Draven – Introduction Post
Posted in Alex Draven, introductions on October 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hi, I’m another Alex – Alex Draven. Mostly I write queer romance (sometimes dubbed m/m erotic romance, or original slash, or any one of a hundred other labels), and I’ve been putting off making my introduction post, because I always find it slightly embarrassing to talk about myself – how terribly stereotypically British of me! [...]
Fly the bunting high – the church fete
Posted in Alex Draven, Britain, Society on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My fellow britwriters have covered many of the essential signs of a British summer already – Wimbledon, the seaside, steam fairs, celebrating the solstice, rain – but I have one more to add to the collage – village and church fetes!
These are community-run fund-raising days, and a chance for everyone to get together [...]
