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Much Ado About Nothing
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing:
The House Always Wins. Especially if the House is in Alaska?
14/03/2013
So I have this card game on my phone. It’s called Alaska. It’s not overly complicated but I’ve become strangely fascinated with it. It’s not really the game itself, so much as this particular iteration of it. Most electronic card games seem to be a little skewed. They like to make you feel like you’ve […]
This is My Writing Tip for the Week: Jello Shots
12/03/2013
So I broke through the tricky transition part of the book last week. (Yay!) (And also, finally. Sucker took me a week to get right.) Which means that I am now on the sprint to the finish line. The part where I can see everything between here and the end and I just have to […]
How Do I Love My Speakers? Let Me Count the Ways: One… ALL OF THEM.
07/03/2013
I want to write an ode to my speakers because I love them very much. I am not actually going to because my poetry is ghastly and, let’s be honest, I don’t think my speakers care that much. They are entirely indifferent when I coo at them and pet them, I doubt lyrical couplets would be […]
Okay, Nobody Relax. Everybody be TENSE.
26/02/2013
One of my beta readers read the most recent chapter I’ve written of Wizards and told me that it reads like this could be the end of the book. Which makes sense. This is the… well, action climax of the book. And for… reasons… there’s an emotional climax at the same time. So, yeah. Feels […]
Possibly More ‘Violates’ Expectations Than ‘Subverts’
21/02/2013
Me: I am in this kind of drifty, exhausted, sleep-deprived place. It is doing funny things to my head. And my spelling. My head space is not aided by the fact that I just read this story that was all deep and metaphysical and twisty with philosophy and literary references. It was not fun per […]
When You Relate to Your Characters a Little TOO Much…
19/02/2013
I’m trying to figure out the next section of Wizards. So far this has meant a certain amount of banging my head against the wall and then deciding I was right to start with and circling back to the beginning. At which point it becomes clear that I am wrong and… I have no idea […]
Why a Support Network is Crucial to a Writer
14/02/2013
Perspective! Writers tend to work on their own, in the dark, which can be at times crazy and lonely making. At these times it is particularly helpful to have caring and supportive people around you who will encourage and reassure and… you know what? I don’t know. I don’t have those people. I have these […]
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