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Warning: AFC, Possibly Weasels

July 13, 2012 by

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So I’m going to be AFC (away from couch) for the next seven weeks. Which is both brilliant and worrying. I mean, what will my couch do without me? I am, however, taking my keyboard with me. I have wondered, from time to time, what it would be like to travel without my laptop (I’m […]

Why Writers Should Not Be Allowed to Fill in Forms

July 11, 2012 by

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Me: I said, Tell me about your rooms that would fit three people. And the hotel website said, How about this one with one king bed? Arkem: 😛 Me: You have to give them props for the judgement-free approach. “Maybe the three of you only want one bed…” No assumptions. Arkem: It’s nice to have […]

This Is What Finished Looks Like*

July 5, 2012 by

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So on… Monday? Was probably Monday. I finished the current draft of book two of Path. Which is brilliant because I have been so close for like two weeks, I kept making progress only to have the finish line move. Something would happen and I would have to rewrite something or there would be a […]

And… Sometimes Writers Repeat Themselves

July 4, 2012 by

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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.

July 3, 2012 by

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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

July 2, 2012 by

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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.

June 29, 2012 by

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“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), […]

Don’t Stop Unless Aardvark

June 27, 2012 by

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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

June 26, 2012 by

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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 […]

Embrace the LEGO Lifestyle

June 22, 2012 by

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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 […]

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