@benaaronovitch.bsky.social
Author of the Rivers of London Series
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s word count = 762 Edward Gorey’s oracle cards - purely for research honestly.
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’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….
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s Word Count = 1,004 Yesterday’s book haul… LONDON TRANSPORT IN THE 1920s, Michael C. Baker INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE, Dennis Duncan
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’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.
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s Word Count = 987
UNDER FIRE – JERRY GOLDSMITH (1983)
Songs to write books to…
A bit of Jerry to sustain the momentum.
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s Word Count = 1,018
ADOUMA - ANGELIQUE KIDJO (1994)
Songs to write books to…
Inspirational action sequence – GO!
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialHer name is Moselle And she drinks a lot of wine Just like….. and there my lyricism stops (sigh)
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialMoselle maybe
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s Word Count = 762
RIO – DURAN DURAN (1982)
I bet her name really isn’t Rio, I bet she just tells the tourists that,
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialU 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.
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’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.
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s word count = 1,007 Well that answered the question 😁
@mitchbenn.bsky.socialReposted by @benaaronovitch.bsky.socialMitch 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
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’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.
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday'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...
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialThanks for all the postcard stuff - that was very useful. Now does anyone know whether trick or treating is a popular past time in Sidcup.
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialQuick Old fogies question for research. Do people send postcards anymore?
@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s Word Count = 844
BESSIE HEAD – EMPTY BED BLUES
Listen to them lyrics man, she ain’t messing about and that’s no lie.
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’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!
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@benaaronovitch.bsky.socialYesterday’s Word Count = 856
SNEAKERS (1992)
Peter references his inability to work out where he’s being taken when kidnapped.
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Scene referenced…
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Which BTW they totally nicked from Hitchcock.
