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The Exciting Adventures of Not-Harry and Charles Watson

August 16, 2011 by

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Still haven’t worked out names for the main characters. Can’t keep calling them Not-Harry and Charles Watson, it’s disorienting. Am therefore having discussions like this: “How about ‘Larry’?” “You want her to name him after a stooge?” “My sister’s named after a hobbit…” I was gonna stick another scrap of it in here cause I […]

Bibliotek: Chapter Three.One

August 15, 2011 by

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Out on the street from the pub, there were ‘no-go’ zones around the hit, marked by push notifications: ‘Street closed. Follow prompts to detour.’ The notes buzzed the mobiles in their pockets, tingling like a mild electric fence.

What Happened to the Weekend? I Was USING That.

August 15, 2011 by

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Jared*: I may or may not be marathoning MLP Me: bwahahaha. Although… given what I spent the weekend doing I should maybe not laugh. Jared: hahaha. What have you been doing? Me: Er… I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself? Suffice to say it has something to do with the […]

Am Going To Start Substituting Alcohol For Sleep

August 14, 2011 by

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So apparently it is wizards in space. Well, wizard, anyway. I spent Friday with Paul fighting crime explaining my dreams to him, in a way that by the evening I had this whole world fleshed out in my mind and the characters and the… Every Damn Thing Except the Main Character’s Name, Apparently. And so […]

Icky Theory: Metatexts and Ergodic Literature

August 12, 2011 by

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The concept of the meta-text draws from Jenkins’ discussion of fan communities’ interpretation and play within their favourite texts. He says that “fan critics work to resolve gaps… far beyond the information explicitly present and toward the construction of a meta-text that is larger, richer, more complex and interesting than the original series. The meta-text […]

Doing It Wrong

August 12, 2011 by

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I just realised I’m doing it wrong. I have to stop trying to sell the plot and instead try to sell the story. Or the theme anyway. Cause one of the reasons I’ve hated writing the query letters and spent so much time banging my head against the wall is because every time I try […]

Wizards in Space?

August 11, 2011 by

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So right now I’m nomming the Jim Butcher Dresden Files books.* They’re like popcorn with magic and hitting things. I totally recommend them. (And the audio books as read by James Masters, who is the perfect voice for Harry Dresden.) On a (probably) related note, I’m sort of accidentally writing this new thing. (Not in […]

New Magic Or A Betrayal Of All You Hold Dear?

August 10, 2011 by

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So I became aware recently that the people who wrote the screenplay for Stardust (Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn) also wrote the screenplays for Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class.* Which I thought was interesting. Because they’re three movies that I enjoyed a lot for various reasons but whose resemblance to the original texts is not […]

Bibliotek: Nanograph Two

August 8, 2011 by

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The Wild Kids jeered as Christian ground his suspension boot into the other teen’s ribs. “I told you not to collaborate on our turf, Gav.” Gavin replied by sign, twisting in agony—and if anyone there had been fluent in pain, they may have appreciated his poetry.

Rampaging Plot Monkeys

August 8, 2011 by

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I don’t write my books linearly at the best of times. The fact that the first two books of this series operate in a strictly chronological fashion has nothing to do with the way I wrote them. I tend to write a scene here, a scene there, and then over time the spaces between them […]

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