Browsing All posts tagged under »mad as a hatter«

The Horrible Unreasoning Fear That THIS Would Happen

February 10, 2012 by

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I have reached the rather odd point in my life where I now buy books rather than borrowing from somewhere to read first. I’m not sure why this is odd. Perhaps it’s not. Perhaps everyone does that. But I used to live with a book courier (a.k.a librarian-mother-who-would-bring-me-books) and spend a rather obscene amount of […]

How the Apocalypse Happens

February 9, 2012 by

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Paul S: Are you still looking for good names? Me: I am always looking for names. I have a collection. I chloroform them and pin them to the wall and cackle with glee. Paul S: Hopefully they “go to sleep and never wake” from the chloroform — rather than wake up pinned to a collection […]

What Legends Are Made Of

February 7, 2012 by

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There’s a rhyme you probably know: Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what little girls are made of. Slime and snails and puppy dogs tails, that’s what little boys are made of. It’s a rather stupid rhyme. Which made me want to be something else entirely. But once upon a time the title […]

Killing People Takes Me to My Happy Place

February 6, 2012 by

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I’ve known how Path (the series) ends for a while now (which is immeasurably comforting) but that just means I can see all six thousand plot strands and characters threads that are converging on the final book. And right now it like it’s going to be this dense, frenetic cascade of trauma and I just […]

Rarely Do I Ever Have A Thought By Itself

February 3, 2012 by

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This. So I’m going to go back to reading about serial killers now. I would tell you why but… well, it’d take a while.  

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

February 2, 2012 by

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When people ask I generally tell them that I’ve always wanted to be a writer. That’s not really true. It wasn’t until I was about seven it first occurred to me that ‘writer’ was a profession and that I, one day, might need one of those. And to be perfectly honest, these two realisations didn’t […]

Unreasonably Anxious About a Fictional Character

January 31, 2012 by

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Caris: And he’s sitting in the meeting thinking, Wish I could just shoot him. Jamie would have shot him by now. Me: That’s true. But Jamie has impulse control problems. I’ve decided what I like best about being a writer. Okay, what I like best about being a writer today. Sometimes, if you ask me […]

Is It Just Me Or Does That Sound Like a Statement of Sexual Preference?

January 27, 2012 by

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Me: (reading the sticker in the back of our neighbour’s car) The harder the better. Is it just me or does that sound like a statement of sexual preference? Arkem: I don’t wear my statements of sexual preference on my car. Me: Do you wear them on your shirt instead? Arkem: No. Me: You barely […]

The Seventh Dwarf: Horseflesh

January 25, 2012 by

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Me: I’m trying to decide whether to make one of my characters absent for the first book Arkem: Well if you can do without him, you might as well kill — Me: No, not non-existent just… not there. The rumour on the edge of sight. The seventh dwarf. Horseflesh. I’m not entirely sure why, but […]

Different Ways of Phrasing the Word ‘No’

January 24, 2012 by

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I just wrote yet another synopsis for Path. It’s like I’m physically incapable of sending out another round of queries without rewriting the whole thing from the ground up. They’re also getting progressively darker. I feel quite strongly there should be more jokes in there. Possibly more beer. But it’s hard to sneak those things […]

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