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What if Sherlock Never Actually Existed?

April 25, 2012 by

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So in Australia today is for remembering. It’s a memorial of a horrific military action and is meant as a day for honouring those who participate in all forms of war, and remembering the sacrifices they’ve made and acknowledging the fallen and those who lived through it. So today I thought you might like this […]

Diary of a Writer

April 24, 2012 by

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Yesterday: I am editing this passage, which I have been having trouble getting to on account of its terribleness. And now as least I’m in it. But it’s still terrible. I think I’m going to have to go through it twice to get out all the terrible. It’s that terrible. Or, well, it’s that melodrama. Bleh. […]

Clowns. Dangerous. Just saying.

April 23, 2012 by

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  Clearly, there’s a reason some people get freaked out by them. Death by clowns. Not a myth. It’s interesting. I liked being a clown and I think they’re creepy. I’m not sure what that says about me. Or what it means that when I tell people I used to be a clown they’re either completely […]

One Wizard Chunk, Two Wizards Parts, Three… Now it Sounds Like I’m Dismembering Someone

April 20, 2012 by

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So I’ve written enough of Wizards now that it’s a bit unwieldy to think of it as a single whole. But it doesn’t seem to break into chapters sensibly. I’ve been calling paired scenes ‘chapters’ but they’re not. They’re just two scenes. Which becomes particularly obvious when a conversation breaks off in a scene in […]

Writing a Biography: Or, I Wish I Could Remember What I Did Last Year

April 19, 2012 by

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And then I get to the part where they say, And wouldn’t you like to write us a biography? And I say very politely: No, not really. But, you know, I don’t think it was really a question. So I went and looked up what I wrote back when I was applying for my PhD […]

Three Things I Think You Need In Your Life Today

April 18, 2012 by

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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