Seems we lit grads are a very similar bunch...
For me it's Jackie Collins and Jeffrey archer I especially love his short stories!
@vampirethriller wrote before I read yours I also like Charlie perfume preferably red or black but I also love ck and Elizabeth Arden
Both hardly quality "literary" writers and would never have claimed to be but bloody good storytellers!
Plastic cheese fan here too, I like them on their own wrapped around a slice of gherkin! Messy but yum!
Reality tv isn't for me but like a pp I don't look down on anyone who does love it, each to their own for sure. Me I'm a sucker for pretty much anything time travel or supernatural related among my favourite shows that I've watched like a million times are charmed (original of course not even seen beyond the crappy trailers for new one), quantum leap and one some may not be aware of or not have watched - timeless!
I'm not ashamed of this though I'm very open about it. My shame is that I seem to be a jinx for tv shows! The ones I love are always cancelled like 2-3 seasons in!
@Thurlow ooh! Interesting! I am a frustrated wannabe writer I've even been told by lecturers and others in publishing who've read my work that I need to bite the bullet and go for it...but my fear of failure really holds me back. But I have considered anonymous self publishing and looked into it a while back but couldn't really get my head around the technical aspects and didn't have a computer back then. I now have a laptop! So would love to revisit this idea. Care to share advice? Here or by pm if you're willing?
Same questions to @hotmeatymilk I'm so in awe!
Also - I seem to hit the "middle" of my novels and then not know how to get through that point? As in I know how I wanna start and end I struggle with how to get the story/characters to where I want them in that awkward middle stage, is that a problem you are familiar with/is common?
@CaribouCarafe weirdly I HAD the big white catholic chapel wedding and when I imagine marrying again (I'm 49 and been single almost 20 years and mostly happily so this is not a likely event!) it's on a beach with few guests very hippy/boho style total opposite to what I had (which truly was neither mine nor grooms desired wedding but LOTS of family pressure and we were very young! I was only 22 and not yet assertive!)
@PetuniaPlum I miss judge Judy! I'm without a tv last few years and cannot access certain channels anywhere I can stream online?
@Plantstrees I LOVE Gilmore girls
@ShirleyPhallus I'm not ashamed of using mn but I don't tell people irl as then I can be most honest on here
Smiling at the Jewish pps celebrating Christmas. In my family there are 4 religions and 3 denominations of Christianity (Catholic, Protestant - Church of Scotland, and brethren) so there's a lot of overlap and celebrating milestone events in different ways which I LOVE participating in. Makes life so much more interesting and richer.
@ColdTattyWaitingForSummer I also LOVE bones though can't watch it at the moment as I've let my Disney+ subscription lapse to save money for Xmas. I may do the Tesco Clubcard thing though
@UnitedRoad who's your fave? Pm if you like cos I know some of them!
@AlCalavicci you and I are very much tv soul mates aren't we?
I always thought I was a Cole girl (yea yea I know he's evil - character AND in real life but he is gorgeous!) then I was most discombobulated once to have an...interesting dream in which I married Leo! Made me see both Leo and Brian Krause in a very different light and that's the point at which I learned that Leo and phoebe (Brian and Alyssa) dated for a while!