Stephanie Butland

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Tag: writing

Where I’ve been

So – you won’t have seen a lot of me this last few days, either here or on Twitter or Facebook or even in my house, much.
Because I’ve been in the studio, with this.

And I’ve been doing my bit – going through the copy-editor’s notes, changes and suggestions, and agreeing with them (mostly), or adding [...]

Not even a night off

Well, my friends, yesterday I pressed the button that sent the document-that-is-approximately-the-shape-of-a-novel off to my editor, Lovely Emma.
‘Breaking Bread’ is done.
Well, I say done. Lovely Emma will read it and (if ‘Surrounded By Water’ is anything to go by) make some suggestions that will (a) make the document-that-is-approximately-the-shape-of-a-novel into something approximating a real book and [...]

Agnes and almost

Shortly before Christmas, shamelessly egged on my Twitter, I cast on a sweater. It’s by one of my favourite designers, Ruth, aka rock+purl.

It’s not a quick knit. The back was quick, the front was sloooow. Partly because of all of the cables, partly because when a cable goes the wrong way (which can only happen, [...]