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And… Sometimes Writers Repeat Themselves
I really enjoy his work but watching Aaron Sorkin’s new series The Newsroom feels kind of like watching re-runs. Now I’m wondering if you could actually dialogue match a whole episode of the The Newsroom…
Eat Your Vegetables. Stay Off My Lawn. Practice Your Synopses. Wear Sunscreen.
03/07/2012
So I am having a problem with my brain where people ask me about the writing and I accidentally spill spoilers all over them. I think it’s because I’m writing synopses. It’s proving quite troublesome shifting from ‘give it to us straight, spoil the ending’ in writing a synopsis to ‘tell me how it’s going […]
Don’t Ask
02/07/2012
Trying to write this series synopsis is making me itch to write the fourth book. Because there are things I don’t know — about how the structure is going to work, about how the subplots are going to break down… I mean, I know what happens in the largest sense, but that’s like saying I […]
Who Needs Sleep? You Can Describe it to Me Some Time.
29/06/2012
“There is an old saying that those who eat toasted cheese at night will dream of Lucifer. The author of Wuthering Heights has evidently eaten toasted cheese.” — from a review of Wuthering Heights in 1848 So lately I’ve been dreaming even more than usual (which is also code for sleeping even less than usual), […]
7 x 5 ≠ > 2
28/06/2012
It’s quite difficult to reduce the story of seven characters across five books into a one or two page synopsis. In the end I decided to start from scratch (instead of building from the one I wrote for the first book) and approach it from a direction of cheerfully screwing over half my characters. This […]
Don’t Stop Unless Aardvark
27/06/2012
Do you ever do that thing where you wake up in the night to write something just to get it the hell out of your head and in the morning you pick it up — surprised by its very existence — and there’s two paragraphs of something that’s touching and brilliant and you’re really a […]
Tempus Edax Rerum
26/06/2012
The universe is poking fun at me right now. Actually, pretty much everybody I complain to is poking fun at me right now. I keep saying, I’m leaving the country in three weeks! And they say, Yes. Awesome. And I say, I am so close to finishing the second book of PATH I could spit […]
Six. Seven. Eight, Nine, Ten. I Want the Weekend Again.
25/06/2012
One, Two, Three, Four, I declare a Time War Five, Six, Seven, Eight, The Daleks will exterminate Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, The Doctor died and Silence fell Twelve, Eleven, Ten, Nine, There he goes back in time Eight, Seven, Six, Five, The saddest word is ‘Alive’ Four, Three, Two, One, Grab her hand and whisper, “RUN!” […]
Embrace the LEGO Lifestyle
22/06/2012
Arkem: Hey, Kandace. Me: Hello, you! You are on my to-do list for today! Arkem: How exciting. Me: Well… not that I need to do you. That would be a little wrong. But things. Things with you. Arkem: Moving in the right direction. But not quite out of the dodgy woods yet. Me: Right. We […]
Bear! Everyone Play Dead!
21/06/2012
I think we should all take this as a lesson. Don’t tease bears. It’s not nice.
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