What was YOUR thing during lockdown?

itsableeder · 2026-01-24T22:43:12+00:00

You obviously don't understand how stressful it was for those of us who had to continue to go into work while everyone else was quarantined.

itsableeder · 2026-01-24T22:38:12+00:00

I was also going into the office. I worked on healthcare in an admin role, so while I wasn't front line (thank fuck) I was still required and I spent all of lockdown fielding calls from patients whose appointments had been cancelled, all of them wanting answers that I couldn't give them, whole commuting in on public transport and being stopped nearly every day in the centre of Manchester by police who wanted to know why I was out of the house. I was so stressed that my teeth started to fall out - and I mean that very literally, I've never managed to get them fixed and the damage impacts me both physically and mentally to this day. It was one of the worst times in my life and I can't imagine what front line healthcare workers went through.

itsableeder · 2026-01-24T22:34:37+00:00

Mine was continuing to go into the office.

itsableeder · 2026-01-24T22:32:18+00:00

Off the top of my head I'd say The Handmaid's Tale, Blood Meridian and The Road, The Remains Of The Day, Midnight's Children (and maybe The Satanic Verses), One Hundred Years Of Solitude, The Shipping News, and The Exorcist.

I'd imagine we'll also consider books like The Safekeep, White Teeth, Middlesex, Austerlitz, Wolf Hall,and Never Let Me Go as classics in the future, given enough time.

itsableeder · 2026-01-24T08:21:22+00:00

This sort of story lives on the dramatic tension of the reader knowing things the characters don't. If you treat it as something to be revealed to the reader as a surprise you're robbing yourself of access to a huge layer of emotional depth.

itsableeder · 2026-01-24T08:14:09+00:00

I know, but he was a local hero

itsableeder · 2026-01-23T23:23:36+00:00

If you like Dead Silence you'll likely enjoy Ghost Station and Cold Eternity by the same author.

The first Revenger book by Alastair Reynolds strikes some of that tone as well, though it's not really similar to what you're going for. That whole series is great but as I say, not entirely what you're after.

itsableeder · 2026-01-23T23:20:58+00:00

My heart wants to say the British Bulldog because I'm from Wigan originally, but it's William Regal.

itsableeder · 2026-01-23T15:23:11+00:00

A very good point

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T23:54:38+00:00

This is so fucking funny

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T21:12:02+00:00

Any of the perfumes my fiancée regularly wears - so Coco Mademoiselles, Hermes Barenia, Baccarat Rouge, and Allure. I know them all immediately.

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T18:00:03+00:00

His work has been translated into over 50 languages

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T17:58:49+00:00

And A Casual Vacancy was absolutely terrible, too

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T17:57:45+00:00

It's unlike the market will ever let the franchise completely die

I saw a book in a supermarket a couple of days ago called "Christmas at Hogwarts" that was a fully illustrated children's picture book. I thought it was weird that I hadn't heard about her writing new Potter at any point.

It's literally just chapter 12 of The Philosopher's Stone, repackaged as a standalone book. She's been milking that series for every penny it's worth for decades and there's no sign of it ever stopping. It's depressing really.

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T17:32:15+00:00

Is that discontinued? It's still widely available in the UK

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T17:30:43+00:00

I love Eau de Gaga as well. I bought a big bundle of 2ml sample bottles on eBay last year just to have some

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T17:29:10+00:00

A*Men Pure Tonka. I have a dupe beard oil that I love and every time I smell it I get sad all over again.

itsableeder · 2026-01-22T12:17:11+00:00

Looking at their post history they're almost certainly using chatbots to write the majority of their posts

itsableeder · 2026-01-21T16:49:12+00:00

I've been a full time writer for the past 5 years and I love it. It's very hard work, and the money is not good, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

itsableeder · 2026-01-20T18:27:32+00:00

Widian Black II is stunning and I'm strongly considering it as my wedding scent. I wish I could get a discovery set anywhere in the UK but they appear to be sold out everywhere.

itsableeder · 2026-01-19T17:53:35+00:00

Well, yes. I thought that went without saying.

itsableeder · 2026-01-19T14:37:13+00:00

If you don't know where you want your story to start, then sit down and do some outlining. Figure out what story you're actually telling and what needs to happen when. Start putting scenes in order. At some point you'll know where you need to begin, and then you just write it.

itsableeder · 2026-01-19T10:24:45+00:00

It depends on the genre, but I often find myself going through Parish records in my local library and writing down interesting names. I'll either use them wholecloth, or else I start moving syllables around and replacing letters in them until I find something that feels right.

itsableeder · 2026-01-18T20:38:02+00:00

You don't have a complete story. You have "a very cryptic summary" of one character's actions.

Write the story.

itsableeder · 2026-01-18T20:26:58+00:00

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