Dean Freeman

#ABookInMyShop
#Moss
#booksky

Finally submitted a short story I've been working on. 2000 words. Worked really hard on it, if anything it's made me more frightened of writing as that much effort over a full novel would definitely kill me.

Current reading #booksky #alismith #gliff

Thanks - I'll take a look

Very nice to be named one of the ten best bookshops in Scotland. A lovely nod for the work we do, especially the community stuff. #Jedburgh #bookshop #nibbies

Helped promote a theatre show last night. One woman performance of A Room Of One's Own by #VirginiaWoolf - a hundred people at a show like this in a rural location is a massive win. Performed by Firebrand Theatre Company.

#ABookInMyShop Room To Dream by #DavidLynch and #KristineMcKenna

Fresh arrivals at P&S HQ! 🥳

From lost pubs to medieval mental health, whisky to war diaries—there’s something for everyone. Which one are you adding to your TBR? 📚

First cinema trip of the year for A Real Pain. Brilliant, love little character pieces like this, and some great comedy too. Kieran Culkin especially good and great Jesse Eisenberg script. Recommended.

#ABookInMyShop - Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray. It's massive!

#booksky #alasdairgray #indiebookshop

#ABookInMyShop - Northerners: A History by Brian Groom.

Tagine could have been From The Ice Age To The Dole Age to make it a bit more northern. Would like to tackle this one day.

A rare sit down to listen to album in full on speakers (headphones good but different). All time fave band but off the boil of late, this might be their most consistent for a while. Sounds a little more like a band than one member's studio project. Still got a returning guitar tone I can't dig tho

Apologies nerds: T800 or Cyberdyne Systems Model 101

Thank to @alltherightmovies.com I've bought and rewatched this tonight. You forget the skinless T101 is a proper reveal. It's a brilliant design and genuinely unsettling, amazing it was so underused in all those sequels.

Great meeting of our writing group, sharing work in progress short stories for @edinburghawards.bsky.social competition. Great that none of us would have entered without the group. I'm now getting the #Heron&Willow reading groups to feedback on them too. #creativewriting #indiebookshop

First film of the month. This week's theme was Film Under 95 Minutes. At 80 mins this easily got in. Didn't know it was a 'one-shot' too, something I very much enjoy. Definite #insidenumber9 vibes, so much so that we watched Mr King afterwards.

Finished up #Clear by #CarysDavies today. Remote Scottish Island? That's all I need know. Look forward to discussing with the bookgroup next week. #Booksky #scotland #newbooks

Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.

Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.

Sounds like the town I live in and it's why I love it; Independent Bookshop, Butcher, Greengrocer, Florist, few antique / nic nac shops, sandwich shops, clothes shop, few cafes. Best restaurant in the county. Still exists out there.

Running a little competition for the day: how many books do you think are in my bookshop? £15 voucher for the closest answer. Shop is about 700 square ft... good luck!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Absolute lightbulb moment for how to write my new story. Means I wasted a day and 5000 words but I get it now. I find it so hard writing fiction to know what the voice is. Journism, opinion; fine. Excited to see if this works!

Took six months to clear the loft out. Plotting a new book idea for three months. Finally, a free day to start writing something. Very hard. Feels boring when first laid down but have to do that foundation work. 5000 words, very tiring!

#writing #writingroom #creativewriting #loftspace #newbook

Writing prompt: this photo.

#writing #creativewriting #writingprompt

Good heavens, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this paragraph

Late Xmas present to myself. Maybe the most metal album ever. What can you do to it? Dance, write, sleep, think? It's great.

#Doom #MickGordon #gaming #gamingsoundtrack #metal #doomslayer #idsoftware #vinyl

21-year-old Norwegian woman becomes youngest person to reach South Pole on skis, her team says Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat 114 years after polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.

21 year old woman makes it to the South Pole! So much brilliance, determination and strength. Bravo, Karen Kylleso.
www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-k...

My half dipped copy of #TheOffing by #BenjaminMyers - the closer I get to the end the more its drowned state becomes appropriate - and twice so in a land (Tenerife) with no actual Offing (line between Horizon and Sea.)

#Booksky

I still fall into the idea that being on holiday will be this great time to be creative, free of all those responsibilities. But it's always an empty-headed time, or of larger reflections. I love taking photos for later inspiration though and the down time is a brilliant, literally recharge.