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Recession is over...... apparently.

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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »

    In fact, tonight I am staying up all night to write a book and publish it online ... I was up all night the other night too, just tweaking all the time... adding and tweaking.. with my fingers crossed.

    I wish i was clever, i'd love to be able to write a book.
    I've only just learnt to do joined up writing.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    I wish i was clever, i'd love to be able to write a book.
    I've only just learnt to do joined up writing.
    I'm writing an (ahem) adult novel atm :) well trying to anyway, it's hard reading your own work and being clear headed about it.
    Someone told me there was money in it :D
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • Cleaver
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    I wish i was clever, i'd love to be able to write a book.

    Jordan, Kerry Katona and Victoria Beckham would have all said the same thing at some point before they went on to have bestsellers.
    SailorSam wrote: »
    I've only just learnt to do joined up writing.

    See above.
  • Lotus-eater
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Jordan, Kerry Katona and Victoria Beckham would have all said the same thing at some point before they went on to have bestsellers.
    They have all said the same thing, but they didn't write their own books :D
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • bo_drinker
    bo_drinker Posts: 3,924 Forumite
    Lotus-eater wrote: »
    They have all said the same thing, but they didn't write their own books :D
    Careful what you say, there is a night time regular poster on here who knows Jordan, say the wrong thing and you will end up on the front page of a red top :eek:
    I came in to this world with nothing and I've still got most of it left. :rolleyes:
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    It's not exactly a trade secret that they all get ghost writers in.
    The ones that read the red tops and those books, don't care who wrote it, nor do I, I just find it funny :D
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • bo_drinker
    bo_drinker Posts: 3,924 Forumite
    Lotus-eater wrote: »
    Someone told me there was money in it :D
    There is if you are a so called "celeb" and tell the peasants you wrote it.
    :confused: :T Good luck with it.
    I came in to this world with nothing and I've still got most of it left. :rolleyes:
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    bo_drinker wrote: »
    and tell the peasants you wrote it.
    Told you lot, I'm sure you count as peasants ;)

    Thanks.
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • Thrugelmir
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    treliac wrote: »
    How can it be "BRITAIN’S worst recession for more than half a century"? It's only been going on for, what is it, 9 months?

    Recessions are measured in terms of lost output, GDP, £'s.

    Not calendar days. :rolleyes:
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Recessions are measured in terms of lost output, GDP, £'s.

    Not calendar days. :rolleyes:
    I think your average pounters view of a recession would be:
    how long does it last
    how many people lost their jobs
    what happened to house prices
    how many high street shops closed
    how many celebrities went bankrupt.

    this GDP stuff is all right if you are some sort of sage, but it means nothing to the man in the street. Especially if his name is mewbie.
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