Advantages: Good smell, holds okay
Disadvantages: On longer short hair like mine it makes you look like you have dandruff

...Well time for my second op! Again with the hair care products (i'm obsessed with my hair... if you hadn't guessed lmao!) this time i'm talking about Lynx Short Stuff Styling Wax. It comes in a nice little container, attractive to the eye with contrasting and bright colours, it caught my eye as I was browsing the hair care aisle while shopping for things to make me look dashingly handsome and pretty much drop dead gorgeous for the up-coming night out. I had always usually been impressed by the Lynx range so thought I would go with product loyalty and purchased it. It was priced around £3.20 for a 75ml pot. You can get it cheaper or more expensive from other outlets though. Getting home, I needed to get ready, so went upstairs and gently threw the shopping bags onto the bathroom floor (you'll notice I do this alot... lol... Read review

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Advantages: Everything about this DVD is an advantage!!!!
Disadvantages: Only if you don't like foreign cinema, and even then you should find something to like in these shorts!

...For those of you that love film, and European film in particular, this DVD is a must have. It consists of 16 short films by some of Europe’s best and brightest directors. Most of them were made before the Directors hit the big time (as far as I can tell but I cannot guarantee that as some of them I haven’t heard of), even including film school graduation shorts. This DVD consists of 16 funny, innovative and experimental shorts, all with commentaries recorded mainly by the directors themselves. The short film is incredibly difficult to pull off, economy of script, direction and an ability to convey as much as possible is of vital importance when you need to tell a complete story within a compacted time period. Many a short filmmaker does not pull this off, I’ve seen way too many that are okay or just not entertaining at all... Read review

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Advantages: the most versatlie writing form.
Disadvantages: It takes time to perfect any skill.

...There is more to short story writing than putting down in a few pages the outline of a tale that would make a good film or novel. Most people who hope to be writers and who are just starting out tend to asusme that a short story is like a tiny book, but this isn't true. The forms and conventions of short stories are very different and need to be properly considered. If you want to read around, there are plenty of good anthologies you can pick up - The Norton Anthologies of American and English lierature are huge tomes containing some varied and inspiring writing. A trip to your library should furnish you with some good reading material. I would recommend you have a look at Edgar Allen Poe, Margaret Attwood, D.H. Lawrence, and Oscar Wilde, although there are no shortage of other greats, these just happen to be my favourites... Read review

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Advantages: Widely available excellent value for money, great pudding
Disadvantages: takes longer cooking

...A GREAT WINTER PUDDING!! As I have always been a devoted cook who loves baking and making puddings as I mentioned on my previous very interesting op on the recipes for desserts section for my rice pudding I wrote last Wednesday as I always buy pudding rice to use for puddings and rissoto's - as a great winter pudding as rice is very substantial. Not only from mine and other devoted cooks findings is short grain rice great for puddings, but also due to it's very high starch content it is great for my Recipes for rissoto's serves 4 4 tablespoons of short grain rice washed in sieve ( 1 tablespoon of rice per person ) A pinch of salt and pepper 50g butter selection of vegetables of your choice Method vegetable baked rissoto cakes by blanching your rice in a pan till water evaporated, then add butter a pinch of salt... Read review

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Advantages: One excelent story, playing with the genre, and interesting to see how some ideas develop into novels, and others don't.
Disadvantages: Many of the stories seem very thin. The short story is not her best form.

...V.I. For Short is a collection of short stories about Paretsky's tough female Chicago detective, V.I. Warshawski. Covering almost a decade, this is something of a mixed batch - a couple of fully formed short stories, a few that were clearly ideas being trialed that wisely made it no further. Without the scope of a novel, several of the stories seem very thin, with many of the characters only loosely sketched, and others rely heavily on you knowing the cast ahead of time from the main series. Only one, The Maltese Cat, a homage to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, right down to the feme fatal client that opens the story, really stands out as a story in it's own right, and one that would have been good with or without the series. The collection gives an accelerated overview of V.I.'s personal life between cases - she moves from... Read review

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Advantages: Good Market research is essential
Disadvantages: More needed

...So You Want to be a Short Story Writer Join the queue! The vast majority of would-be writers start out wanting to write short stories drawn by the idea of sharing the lure of sharing the highs and lows of the expansive emotions and imaginings with the rest of the world. After all, providing you have the talent would easier way can there be to make a living at writing, right? - Wrong. There are several pitfalls you may not yet have considered: 1- As Mark Twain said: "The only difference between fact and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." Most of the stories I reject as editor of Voyage short story magazine and Colonies SF magazine are rejected because the writer gets so caught up in the story telling the neglect simple things like continuity and plausibility. 2- If your story is good it will eventually find... Read review

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