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This. No, really. Go. Click the squares. Actually, wait. Don’t. Do you have a minute? Okay. Is your boss anywhere nearby? Might want to do something about that… Okay. Are your speakers on? Right. Now. Click the squares.
June 19, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I keep writing these really dodgy things lately and then look at them and thinking, What? Today one of my characters thought: The opposition didn’t need names. And then I thought, That’s appalling. Of course they need names. Taking away their names, not honouring them with that identity — it’s dehumanising. You turn a person […]
June 18, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
A few years ago, for perfectly valid reasons and not at all because I am unreasonably curious, I surveyed about a hundred of my closest friends and family regarding their eating habits. I wanted to know whether they drank, what they were allergic to, but also what they just plain didn’t like. And it was […]
June 15, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
So someone asked me yesterday why I didn’t just find a way to take out the inconvenient minion without killing him. It’s interesting, because there are a number of places where I’ve done exactly that. And I thought about doing it here too. After all, in the original draft of this section no one died […]
June 14, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I killed someone. I feel kind of badly about it. Actually, I killed them on Friday. But I only started to feel really guilty about it today. Well, maybe ‘conflicted’ is a better word. I keep telling myself he wasn’t very nice, but it doesn’t help. Because when I had my characters kill him they didn’t […]
June 13, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Neil may be right that you only need number nine. But I wonder how many authors out there only have number nine…
June 12, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Paul S: Okay, so why is a duck? Me: That’s one that’s puzzled the sages throughout the ages. Paul S: My current theory is: what else would it be? Once upon a time I used to watch the end of the news every day because it was on before M*A*S*H. I didn’t pay any attention, […]
June 8, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I have a problem. (Yeah, yeah, admitting it is the first step to recovery.) My problem is this: I hate not finishing things. I’m pretty sure I developed this trait when I was a teenager. I was sick for a while so for a couple of years there I didn’t finish anything. And when I […]
June 7, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
A few days ago — call it last Thursday — while I was running I sort of accidentally listened to half of “Apollo 9” by Adam and the Ants. Since then I have been unable to get it out of my head. (Fi— Fi— Fi— Fi— Five. ) There is no reason for this. It’s […]
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June 20, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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