Browsing All posts tagged under »being a writer«

She Also Remembers Things I Wrote When I Was Seven (We Do Not Speak of It)

August 23, 2011 by

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So I’m feeling kind of okay about the structure at the moment, as opposed to ‘oh god, oh god, what did I do?’ so that’s good. I laid it out, wrote in the bits in the gaps, and finally have something that I feel like I can show someone without killing myself. And it’s about […]

These Entrails Are For Arkem (or, What Would You Call a REMARKABLY Drunk Wizard?)

August 21, 2011 by

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So, I’m still wrestling with the names of the characters in Wizards, although now at least I have placeholder names that don’t cause massive cognitive dissonance. …hasn’t stopped me banging my head into the table when I try to talk about them to people though. It’s very hard to have a conversation about a character […]

I’m Attempting to Get Scurvy and You’re Helping

August 19, 2011 by

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So Rick has started to take retaliatory measures towards the fact that the sandman and I aren’t getting along. Tonight for instance he ran in, a good hour after he normally heads bedwards, yelled ‘Emergency Bedtime’, flipped the switch to plunge the world into darkness and lunged for the bedroom. And I was left in […]

Infecting People With Fiction

August 18, 2011 by

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Today I have the headache I didn’t have yesterday. My brain and I are bonding over the writing at the moment, but we’re not on the same page as far as sleep goes. But on the bright side the first thing I did this morning (after fetching juice and almost falling over in kitchen — […]

Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies

July 28, 2011 by

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Since I finished the first book, sent out my queries and so on, you would be forgiven for assuming that I was now working on finishing off the second book. But as writing (at least when I do it) bears about as much resemblance to logic as most things in Wonderland, this is in fact […]

How NOT to Appeal to a Potential Agent (or Mate)

July 26, 2011 by

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Paul thinks I should update you on my search for representation thing. I think this may be the first step on a descending spiral of madness and despair, but what do I know? So. On Friday an agent (one of those at the very top of my shortlist of favourites) asked to see a partial […]

The Tortured Artist’s Dilemma

July 22, 2011 by

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Today: I woke up with a very special headache this morning. And as stabbing pain is not one of my favourite ways to start the day, I took some painkillers. They are new and different because the other boxes in the drawer were all empty. And apparently their drugs are not the same as the […]

Punctuation is key

July 21, 2011 by

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“You need a comma. Because it wasn’t the farmhouse that was seeking answers.” “How do you know?”

Finished

July 11, 2011 by

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I finished the book. Every time I say this to someone they look at me, kind of perplexed, and say something like, “You finish books all the time…” With their expression saying, Why is this suddenly news? And I say, “No, the one I’m writing.” And they say, “Oh.” But they don’t look much less […]

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