“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), […]
June 27, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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 […]
June 26, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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 […]
June 22, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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 […]
June 20, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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 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 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 […]
June 6, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I made words! I made so many words! I am awesome. Those scenes? You know, the last ones for TRTH that I hadn’t finished? There are now five of them. No, wait, this is a good thing. Because they’re almost finished! All I need to do is frame them and drop them in the narrative. […]
June 5, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I wrote two and a half chapters on Thursday!* Well, edited two and half chapters technically. I’m never quite sure how much damage I have to do to a scene before I can say I was really writing not editing… And to be fair, I had done a lot of the heavy lifting already. This […]
June 29, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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