I Blame Brown for Bad Breakfast

Wholemeal loaves make rubbishy eggy bread. Learn from my fall!

Also, I'm only another 300 words on with the yarn, and not particularly happy with them. Think I'd better just slog on, hope to catch fire again, and otherwise wait for the serious round of revision that beckons before I finish this arc.

Plot Was I Thinking?

Fictional characters are peculiarly susceptible to funny turns in which they do something quite unlike themselves, in order to stumble in the nick of time onto the Plot Train to their next narrative destination. Whilst blogging about something else today, I found I needed a snappy phrase for this affliction.

I do believe I have just found it.