Browsing Archives of Author »Kandace Mavrick«

I Will Not Intentionally Tell the Truth

10/10/2013

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I don’t write about real people or real events.* But sometimes real life sneaks in anyway. In Drink Me there is a throwaway line of description halfway through. It’s a very simple sketch outline of a piece of backstory that never comes into the book. It’s one line and one of my relatives read it, […]

why things burn

07/10/2013

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My fire-eating career came to an end when I could no longer tell when to spit and when to swallow. Last night in Amsterdam, 1,000 tulips burned to death. I have an alibi. When I walked by your garden, your hand grenades were in bloom. You caught me playing loves me, loves me not, metal […]

You Will Feel a Little Crazy But For Me

04/10/2013

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Watching this video feels like a weird kind of high school flashback. Because of the outfits. Just so we’re clear.    

Important Decisions Should Not Be Based on Laziness or ‘Because it’ll Make Me Laugh’

03/10/2013

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Right now I’m trying to figure out if this new story is in third person or first and if it’s about a boy or a girl because I’ve got chunks of text in basically every permutation. When I start writing something new I tend to simply use ‘he’ and she’ because it’s the easiest way […]

The Tattoo You’ve Always Wanted

01/10/2013

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Personally, I’m hanging out for ThinkGeek’s moodINQ – Programmable Tattoo System to become a reality.  

I Don’t Even Know Your Name

27/09/2013

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That lyric line ‘I don’t even know your name’ seems particularly pointed right now because I’m struggling to name the characters in this new book that I may be, might be writing. This song is kinda silly and if you read it straight I have some issues with the lyrics. Also the video clip is […]

If I Was the Whiskey…

24/09/2013

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Yesterday one of my readers* came over and we worked through the notes they’d given me on Drink Me. I kind of love doing that in person because it gives me the opportunity to wave my arms and roll my eyes and stick my tongue out at them when I disagree. Which I think helps […]

Camp “Fuck You, I’m a Wizard”

23/09/2013

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  So I’m clearly not the first to put these two ideas together… 😛  

How I Start Writing a Book

20/09/2013

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I know I’m supposed to be proof reading Drink Me. Writing synopses and query letters and other practical things. Failing that, I should be editing Path, or working up this middle grade thing.* But what I have been doing is having migraine-style headaches which stop my brain from functioning. And then last Friday night I […]

Bohemian Gravity

18/09/2013

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Minor detour because science!