Yesterday’s word count = 762 Edward Gorey’s oracle cards - purely for research honestly.
Ben Aaronovitch
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social
Author of the Rivers of London Series
Yesterday’s Word Count = 504 YOU KNOW MY NAME – CHRIS CORNELL Songs to wite books to… Your protagonist gets to their feet and returns to the fight…. youtu.be/YnzgdBAKyJo?...
Casino Royale - Chris Cornell - You Know My Name
YouTube video by MovieSounds
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,004 Yesterday’s book haul… LONDON TRANSPORT IN THE 1920s, Michael C. Baker INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE, Dennis Duncan
Yesterday’s Word Count = 609 QUANTUM OF SOLACE – ZACK WHITE AND ALICIA KEYS Songs to write books to… Your protagonist wonders if this is all really worth it. youtu.be/cA_VhbE9gZo?...
Quantum of Solace Theme Song - James Bond
YouTube video by James Reed
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 987 UNDER FIRE – JERRY GOLDSMITH (1983) Songs to write books to… A bit of Jerry to sustain the momentum. youtu.be/K59pIbcWgOE?...
Jerry Goldsmith - Under Fire
YouTube video by Hollywood
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,018 ADOUMA - ANGELIQUE KIDJO (1994) Songs to write books to… Inspirational action sequence – GO! youtu.be/S6LHQoM9OoE?...
Angelique Kidjo - "Adouma"
YouTube video by Angelique Kidjo
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 762 RIO – DURAN DURAN (1982) I bet her name really isn’t Rio, I bet she just tells the tourists that, youtu.be/nTizYn3-QN0?...
Duran Duran - Rio (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DuranDuranVEVO
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U think I may have cracked the voice of a new co-protagonist. I'm supposed to be working on something completely different but them's the breaks. You've just got to learn to roll with it.
Yesterday’s Word Count = 659 2ND MOVEMENT STRING QUARTET OP. 11 – SAMUEL BARBER (1936) Songs to write stories to… When things get so bad your protagonist starts having flashbacks to a war they never fought in. youtu.be/WAoLJ8GbA4Y?...
Vienna Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel – Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (SNC 2019)
YouTube video by Sony Classical
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Yesterday’s word count = 1,007 Well that answered the question 😁
Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn
Yesterday’s Word Count = 975 Break glass in case of emergency. COLD – JORGE MENDEZ (2013) Songs to write stories to…. When your protagonist is sad but it takes bloody days to write the scene. youtu.be/aWIE0PX1uXk?...
Sad Piano Music (THIS WILL MAKE YOU CRY / Saddest Piano & Violin Ever!)
YouTube video by Jorge Mendez Music
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Yesterday's Word Count = 533 I've run out of things to post with the word count. Assuming I get any work done - this might be a bit boring for a couple of days...
Thanks for all the postcard stuff - that was very useful. Now does anyone know whether trick or treating is a popular past time in Sidcup.
Quick Old fogies question for research. Do people send postcards anymore?
Yesterday’s Word Count = 844 BESSIE HEAD – EMPTY BED BLUES Listen to them lyrics man, she ain’t messing about and that’s no lie. youtu.be/Mc7RQCQAtKU?...
Bessie Smith-Empty Bed Blues
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 955 WAR GAMES (1983) I can’t remember where but fairly certain I must of… “Confidence is high…” And that was a big f*ck off set! youtu.be/cHkB0SPLd7o?...
Wargames (1983)
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 856 SNEAKERS (1992) Peter references his inability to work out where he’s being taken when kidnapped. youtu.be/YoIqiOlMoSk?... Scene referenced… youtu.be/YoIqiOlMoSk?... Which BTW they totally nicked from Hitchcock.
Sneakers
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 911 DUNE (1984) There seem to be some free films on YouTube – I assume their legal so I’ve decided to share some of the ones I’ve referenced in the books. Starting with “I was not here, the spice must flow.” youtu.be/kzrcf5ph0EI?...
Dune 1984
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 545 KARAOKE (1996) – by Dennis Potter. Potter's swansong, or rather one of two. He managed to persuade the BBC and Channel 4 to co-operate. Unheard of…. youtu.be/IwYlzSQTL2A?...
Karaoke (Dennis Potter 1996) E01 Tuesday
YouTube video by Tirdad Derakhshani
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 838 Another pic from my research ramblings.
I’ve been out and about researching stuff for Rivers 12
THE WORKBENCH! Rivers 11 - Copy-edit checked and returned to publisher. UNTITLED SIDE NOVEL - halfway point reached. Rivers 12 - Research Underway. Pythagoreans, Wren, Coffee Houses, The Great Fire. Archway Road. Post war transport planning.
Ha - does anyone know the proper print spelling of Babylon Five's Z’Ha’Dum?
Yesterday's Word Count = 1,072 Today we start ploughing through the Rivers 11 Copyedit. I have one of the best copyeditors, @steveeditor.bsky.social, around and boy are they thorough so this could take some time. Expect low word counts for at least a week ☺️
Yesterday’s Word Count = 541 LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR (1993) – by Dennis Potter. You sing, you dance, you learn Russian. youtu.be/ByKuc7421c8?...
Lipstick On Your Collar (Dennis Potter 1993) S01E01
YouTube video by Tirdad Derakhshani
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 601 BLADE ON THE FEATHER (1980) by Dennis Potter Right I think we’re going to have to dip into some Potter. Or at least a small sample. Donald Pleasance vs Tom Conti. youtu.be/mf9_D095H_E?...
Blade on the Feather (1980) by Dennis Potter
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I see they’ve stopped trying to let the Black Cat fall down so they can ‘redevelop’ i. Hooray.
Yesterday’s Word Count = 793 LILO AND STITCH (2002) “Thus far you have been adrift in the sheltered harbor of my patience…” COBRA BUBBLES (voiced by Ving Rhames) (*also “Trust me, this is not gonna end well!”)
