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Grr! We missed 100!
Our 100th post was Kandace’s lack of research! Wish I’d known, we could have had a celebration–I was thinking a comment-in / drink-in 😉 Maybe at 150?.. or before, if anyone’s interested?
Icky Theory: Kindles and iPads and Fire, oh my!
September 30, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
So the rumours of ‘free’ subscription ebooks and the Amazon tablet have only partially come true (so far) with the low-cost Kindle Fire (weigh the Fire’s US$200 v (template) BB Playbook’s US$499—basically, they’re giving it away!) The first rumour was of free ebook subscriptions coming bundled with Amazon Prime on the (then unannounced) Fire. Of […]
How to do Research Without Really Trying
September 30, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
I don’t do any research for my writing. I used to say this quite regularly. It’s not true. It’s just a delusion that I was quite attached to. This is because I thought all research was looking things up in books, writing down details and copying them faithfully into your story at the relevant parts. […]
Suicide Is Painless*
September 29, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
So after yesterday’s post a few people contacted me to make sure I wasn’t eyeing off tall buildings or bottles of pills. Me: Apparently my post this morning concerned people and some of them have poked me to say, ‘Are you insane/okay?’ Rick: The suicide post? Me: Yeah. I don’t know. You talk about hanging […]
Wednesday Poetry: Lomare
September 28, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
I didn’t think I’d write you another poem, not for this occasion, and not for many more. Maybe in another life, when we both must– but not now. Then you went and told me of the roller skates in your childhood: mud drains, sisters, and gave me a little, younger you. I have precious insight […]
Making Your Suicidal Depression Work For You
September 28, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
So Ernest Hemingway suggests I hang myself. This strikes me as being on par with the school of thought that gave us: If at first you don’t succeed, call an airstrike. Still… I think he sort of has a point. Not that I think suicide is the answer. But it would give you something to […]
Monday Blurb: The Miracle
September 27, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
Of course you’ve already seen some of this work, now I thought it’d be a good idea to set the scene of the whole novel. The Miracle has been with me a long time, when as a sixteen year old I decided to invent an eighty year old superhero as my ‘signature’ character. There were three […]
Bear Balancing, Flags and Fake Fireworks
September 27, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
So far Operation: Graduate Arkem is going well. For one thing, he graduated. For another, we haven’t accidentally killed him yet. So I think that’s congratulations all round. Caris and I helped him achieve said lofty goal and refrained from tripping him in the crowd or pushing him under vehicles. We took pictures (including his […]
Things to Do to Prepare for a House Guest
September 26, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
Buy Cherries. Remember they’re coming.* Manipulate them into a situation where they are obliged to let you take funny pictures of them. More cherries (the glacé ones not the real ones). Alcohol. Me: Wuffie liked my idea. Paul S: What was your idea? Me: Jared wants us to watch Ponies. I think the rest of […]
Dreaming the Melodrama of the Teen Experience
September 23, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
I am trashed out of my skull. No, not with the alcohol. I am not drunk. Why do people keep asking me that? I am just… not on speaking terms with the sandman right now. I tried staying in bed thinking, Sleep now. Sleep is good. Sleep is my friend. We should all be friends […]
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September 30, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
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