Happy Christmas!
25 December 2021 11:26 amWishing Everyone a Merry and Joyful Christmas
(Or a just a happy Saturday. <3)
We watched The Man Who Invented Christmas the other night - which is about Dickens writing A Christmas Carol - and it was very entertaining and had some wonderful ways in which it illustrated what it's like to be a writer: both in how inspiration works, what it's like when the story refuses to co-operate, and the incredible frustration of being interrupted just when something's coming together.
In honour of the day I've pulled out a chunk of A Christmas Carol. It's from The Ghost of Christmas Present, and if you are not familiar with the book you might not know it - not surprisingly it doesn't really feature in most adaptations, but I love it because it looks so much wider than Scrooge's personal history.
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All our lateral flows are negative, so we are off to the in-laws for Christmas dinner!! :D
(Or a just a happy Saturday. <3)
We watched The Man Who Invented Christmas the other night - which is about Dickens writing A Christmas Carol - and it was very entertaining and had some wonderful ways in which it illustrated what it's like to be a writer: both in how inspiration works, what it's like when the story refuses to co-operate, and the incredible frustration of being interrupted just when something's coming together.
In honour of the day I've pulled out a chunk of A Christmas Carol. It's from The Ghost of Christmas Present, and if you are not familiar with the book you might not know it - not surprisingly it doesn't really feature in most adaptations, but I love it because it looks so much wider than Scrooge's personal history.
( Read more... )
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All our lateral flows are negative, so we are off to the in-laws for Christmas dinner!! :D
