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How You Write a Synopsis
First you spend an entire day writing (and rewriting) three hundred words. Then, just at the point where you’re going crazy and starting to see things in the text that aren’t there you ask someone else to read it. Hopefully they will say something nice like, I’d read that. Hopefully they won’t say things like, […]
Star Trek: Into Confused Disappointment
May 14, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I’m going to preface this by saying I liked it. I did. Sort of. Also that there might be minor spoilers below. Okay. So. If what you’re looking for is a movie with lots of explosions and chase scenes — sure, go for it. This movie is your baby. If you were maybe hoping for […]
TV Taught Me How to Feel Now Real Life Has No Appeal
May 10, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Cause I feel like I’m the worst So I always act like I’m the best I’m gonna live, I’m gonna fly, I’m gonna fail, I’m gonna die. Alternate visuals courtesy of multiKitten and Sherlock this time. Link to playlist here.
How to Get Someone Else to Synopsise Your Work: A Study in Whining
May 2, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I just remembered I have to write a synopsis for Drink Me* in the next few days. So basically I’m whining and procrastinating and considering how to make lemon flavoured brownies. Honestly, this shouldn’t be that hard. It’s high-concept! The plot is very straight-forward! There are only two characters! Arkem: Drink Me is a rollicking […]
Redrafting Shouldn’t Feel So Much Like Wanting to Hit Past Me Up the Back of the Head
April 30, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Screw passive aggressive, my notes to self have ramped up to aggressive aggressive. My favourite piece of advice in my notes today? Cut this. Or change it to something… better. On the… let’s call it the upside I’ve cut around ten percent of the chapters I’ve edited so far. So that’s nice. And odd. But […]
This is Why Critique is Important. Excellent For the Ego. No, Wait…
April 26, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I wasn’t going to work this week. I was going to do admin stuff, nap, make cookies… It was the Week of Letting My Beta Readers Do Their Thing. And then on Saturday — Me: I promised one of my beta readers a new chapter every time she emailed me with comments on the last. […]
Sometimes You Gotta Have a Little Faith. Sometimes it’s Better to Just Stay Home.
April 22, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
This is for my mother. Because of reasons. (This is also how I imagine wizards playing with the limits of their power.)
Writing. All Other Things in Flux.
March 26, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I am this* close to finishing the first draft of Wizards. Which means I am writing at speed and to the exclusion of most other things, like sleeping, eating and interacting with other human beings. Rick: How’s it going? Me: Am awake. Writing. All other things in flux. Come to think of it, even consciousness […]
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Paul McLaughlan
May 16, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
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