Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:13 pm
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As I started this blog to chronicle my writing endeavours, I sometimes feel I should be updating it when I’m actually writing. But when I have the chance, I prefer to focus my energies on whatever project I’m working on. Updating the blog just seems li…

Post from Alex Wire
Monday, February 15, 2010, 12:37 pm
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There’s a special kind of headache you get when you haven’t slept for an entire day and night. It’s like a mangle squeezing your head from the back, slowly dragging you between the presses.I don’t think I’ve been this tired and disorientated …

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 9:26 pm
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Tiger Beer is going at four bottles for £3 in the Co-op. I suggest you take advantage of this offer, unless you live round me, in which case – hands off.For the last few months whenever I have bought alcohol to drink in the evening, voices in my head …

Post from Alex Wire
Friday, February 5, 2010, 11:49 pm
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I work at a newspaper office and today there was a giveaway of a load of books and CDs sent in for review, all piled up on a table like a jumble sale. I walked away with a book on playwriting, about 15 albums and a few singles.I hadn’t heard of most of…

Post from Alex Wire
Monday, February 1, 2010, 9:41 pm
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I seem to have lost the ability to read during the day, at least without falling asleep. I hope it’s just tiredness and not a permanent fault I’ve developed. In Plath’s The Bell Jar it’s when she realises she can no longer read that she first attempts …

Post from Alex Wire
Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:48 pm
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If you really want to hear about it, I am one of those people who, after reading The Catcher in the Rye for the first time, “went around for months afterwards being Holden”. Years later I even confused my friends by signing up to Facebook under a C…

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 5:51 pm
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…I admit it. Yesterday’s nonsense was my way of saying that I have finally bought a diary for 2010.

Post from Alex Wire
Monday, January 25, 2010, 5:40 pm
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After several weeks of denial, I’ve reluctantly come to accept that 2010 is actually happening and, despite much evidence to the contrary, a new decade has begun. But I’m not going to pretend to be pleased about it.

Post from Alex Wire
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11:15 pm
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Nothing to report for a while, but I have uploaded a new portrait picture.

Post from Alex Wire
Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 1:34 pm
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As well as Scalextric, my Christmas presents this year included an ebow and a condenser mic (although to be fair I did buy that for myself).I’ve put them to use recording some acoustic versions of my band’s songs, which I’ve stuck up on the old m…

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 1:33 pm
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Dear imaginary friends,For once I return from the Christmas break feeling refreshed and cheerful. There are three reasons for this:1) It was my mum’s turn to play hostess to the family this year so we didn’t have to travel.2) Having a long weekend …

Post from Alex Wire
Sunday, December 13, 2009, 6:18 pm
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My first completed book, An Island Story, is out there in the grubby hands of the readers. Well so far in the hands of my friend Nicola whose hands aren’t grubby at all. I dropped the book around at her house this lunchtime and she promised to start it…

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 5:14 pm
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Good news – there is new material from Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip in the Spring. I love their work.More good news – I’ve finished editing the second draft of An Island Story. Getting a couple of copies printed on Lulu to give to friends and fami…

Post from Alex Wire
Friday, November 27, 2009, 5:35 pm
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Still tired. Still depressed. Full of cold. Very snotty and my throat feels about a millimetre wide. Will be at least three more hours until I can get home and tell the world to fuck off for a few days while I try and recover. Feel like I might slip in…

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 5:08 pm
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Busy. Busy busy. No time to blog. Had week off and ended up more busy, anxious. Did overdue work on geeky side projects, then began Novel #3 (yes, #3! Novel #2 waylaid). 6,000 words. Pretty good start. Trying to be organised about this one to avoid edi…

Post from Alex Wire
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 1:02 pm
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On Thursday night, in the middle of a fit of depression and a nightmare journey home from work, I started writing a poem in my head about some recent personal ordeal. When I finally got home, still miserable and cold from getting caught in torrential r…

Post from Alex Wire
Monday, October 26, 2009, 2:11 pm
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Today I begin the first leg of what is going to be a nationwide tour of Britiain to see aging American punk rockers. Tonight it’s Green Day at the Sheffield Arena, in December I’m going to see the New York Dolls in Leamington Spa (yes, I thought th…

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 12:32 pm
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Yesterday I had my final OU exam which marked the end of my course this year – I think it went okay, but it’s hard to tell without any previous experience of writing about art in test conditions. I expect I rambled a bit, got too focused on one arg…

Post from Alex Wire
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 1:02 pm
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Dear imaginary friends,I’m feeling in a confident-about-getting-published mood at the moment.In this month’s edition of Left Lion (Nottingham’s free culture paper) I read about some local indie presses who I’m going to try out my short stories …

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5:22 pm
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I just checked my bank balance online to see how close I am to reaching my overdraft limit (a monthly occurrence for the past five years) and what do I find but a deposit from HMRC for £770.40 in overpaid taxes! I know I’m bragging now but I feel li…