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Three Things I Think You Need In Your Life Today
This isn’t a trailer for the TV mini-series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens that’s still in development. This claims to be the world’s most dangerous sport. I’m not sure if that’s true. It certainly looks dangerous. And fun. Although I’m pretty sure the only reason Paul S showed it to me was because of […]
Submission Neurosis, Let Me Count the Ways…
April 17, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Actually what bothers me most about the submission process and it’s accompanying string of rejections is not the fear that my work isn’t good enough (that’s a whole other anxiety train) but that my failure might be due to presenting the novel the wrong way. What if I’m just really terrible at writing query letters? […]
A Good Opening Scene is Worth a Cocktail in the Face
April 16, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
So I’m about thirty thousand words into Wizards and I finally got to the scene fragment that started the whole thing. Finally.* I’m really glad now that I didn’t decide to start the book there. I don’t think the scene would have had the same resonance without the context you get from the what comes […]
Dreams Are Illustrations From the Book Your Soul is Writing About You*
April 13, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
My head is in the dark place again. I can’t quite figure out if it’s because I’m working on the second Path book or it’s why I’m working on the second Path book. Either way, I found myself in a dazed moment yesterday morning recasting a number of people I know as villains. I am […]
Not Language but a Map
April 12, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according to which nation. French has no word for home, and […]
Staring into Space is a Valid Approach to Problem Solving. Usually.
April 11, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Rick: Having fun? Me: Er. Define ‘fun’. Writing is fun, yes? And banging my head against the wall seems to be an integral part of writing. Q.E.D. It’s not that the ceiling of my living room is fascinating. It’s not. It isn’t even among the top five most interesting ceilings I’ve had. There are no […]
Even in Fiction Climaxing Early is Not Cool
April 10, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I have concern. I’m afraid the climax of Wizards is going to come too soon. I’m afraid the first act, those first four hours, will be too short to be a book but if I add their second adventure it will be too long. And I have to account for the fact that it will […]
When in Danger or in Doubt… Turn to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, They Always Know What to Say
April 9, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I forgot it was Monday. These things happen, yes?
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platform thing 
April 18, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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