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This is Not a Picture of a Cat (Dead or Alive)*

September 24, 2012 by

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I don’t know what it is but I can’t spell when I’m asleep. Or, not can’t spell. I get words mixed up. Mostly homophones like ‘retch’ and ‘wretch’ and ‘through’ and ‘threw’. The sort of distinction that’s obvious, but that my unconscious mind is apparently incapable of making. It also happens if I’m composing and […]

Fuck Admin Stuff, Write the Damn Book

September 21, 2012 by

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In the last eight writing days (read: all the writing days I’ve had since I got back as the other days were taken up with boring admin-ity crap and being weekends) I’ve written more than ten thousand words of Wizards. Or, to put it another way, a volume that represents a quarter of the current […]

Perspective is Everything

September 20, 2012 by

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I am sick not sick. I am not dead fine. I am going to live through get so much writing done today. Just so we’re clear.    

Books are Good in Bed

September 19, 2012 by

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Also excellent when sick. Flat surface to line tablet up on so you can stare at them, depressed. Blunt object to beat yourself to death with. Frustration relief (if you don’t mind throwing them across the room). Distraction. Cure-all.    

Conspiracy of Microbes

September 18, 2012 by

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I feel… unbalanced. Or Wizards does.* Partly this is because I just wrote three scenes from Gray’s P.O.V. in a row (I kept shifting to Jamie and then muttering ‘no’ and flipping it) but mostly I think, it’s because I’m sick. I’m still working (mostly) but I’ve lost my perspective. Yesterday I wrote the next […]

Will to Live Forecast

September 17, 2012 by

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Sometimes I think it would be good to have a forecast like this. Sometimes I think it would just be depressing to know.

When I Was Eight

September 14, 2012 by

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I saw the Berlin wall fall. I saw the end of apartheid. I saw someone have their face smashed in with the butt of a rifle. I saw soldiers of two different countries jog through the streets of the town I lived in. I saw a kid in my school, a victim of corporal punishment, […]

Productive Chaos

September 13, 2012 by

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I am having a day of productiveness. I think. I think because today has sort of been about lining up dominos. When I knock them down we’ll see if I was building pretty patterns or chaos. But I think when they fall I’ll have the next one/two/three chapters of wizards sorted. I was supposed to […]

September 12

September 11, 2012 by

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There’s an old theory of reporting (which I can’t readily find a reference too because I apparently suck at google today) which says that something on the other side of the world has to be something like a thousand times more awful for it to have the same impact as one person suffering in your […]

Turns Out, Having Insomnia in the Middle of the Night is a Really Pointless Way to Spend Your Evening

September 7, 2012 by

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So I was going to write something intelligent today. It was going to be filled with humour and quiet excitement and may even have included something profound. But as I did not really sleep last night I’m sort of squinting at my laptop trying to remember how words work. I don’t sleep through the night. […]

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