Music events East Midlands

Writers and music always seem a great match. Making Music in the East Midlands are holding some free events in February and March. Check out the following websites for more details.

www.musicleader.net
www.makingmusiceastmidlands.org.uk

Writing resources

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/

Gives you information about what the BBC is up to with writers. Since I'm about to go to a day on Transliteracy at De Montfort University, it was interesting to read Tim Wright's blog about Dotcommery, Tomfoolery and Swywthery and his new play.

Writing events

I understand there are still some tickets left for Writing Industries Conference 2010 at Loughborough 6 March. You can check what's on offer at www.writingindustries.com

And he didn't have the internet to confound him

'We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.' Thomas Edison

Writer's tools

I visit it only rarely (shame on me) but there are a lot of interesting things over at Writing.com.

Check out the Daily Flash Fiction Challenge, 300 words or less: Daily Flash Fiction Challenge

New Oxford English Dictionary

A reminder that you can find this extensive tool for writers online.

http://www.elabs7.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,k37m,dv,ctg5,1cwr,e1o2,b2ud

Serendipity

Indebted to The Writer's Almanac last week for this information.

'Serendipity' was first used by parliament member and writer Horace Walpole in a letter that he wrote to an English friend who was spending time in Italy. In the letter to his friend written in 1754, Walpole wrote that he came up with the word after a fairy tale he once read, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip,' explaining, 'as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.' The three princes of Serendip hail from modern-day Sri Lanka. 'Serendip' is the Persian word for the island nation off the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka.'