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Life After Google Reader
I just — finally — got around to finding myself something to replace Google Reader. There was a brief beautiful moment where I zeroed out my feeds and you know, that sort of thing needs celebrating. I could have invented a new cocktail for the occasion but I decided instead that mind-searing admin work was […]
Cobrastyle
May 17, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
This is a song that, it turns out, very few people know by name. I am weirdly fond of it. Partly because the band is the Teddybears (who are Swedish and strange and for some reason tend to be pictured with the heads of bears…) and partly because the chorus gets stuck in my head, […]
How You Write a Synopsis
May 16, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
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, […]
These Are the Things a Second Draft is Made of…
May 7, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Sometimes the second draft is where I go back in and make the intention of it clear from the mess of words I threw at the page the first time. Sometimes I write things and I have no idea what I’m doing and the second draft is me finding something in the text I had […]
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.)
Raise Your Glass if You Are Wrong in All the Right Ways
April 19, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Arkem: It’s a good song. Me: It is a good song. When I quoted it on the internet you accused me of turning into Warren Ellis. Arkem: It’s just that I think someday that’s going to happen. Me: You think I’m going to turn into Warren Ellis? Of all writers? Arkem: Well, of all people. […]
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Paul McLaughlan
May 21, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
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