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Shakespeare With Original Pronunciation
This is cool if you like words or Shakespeare or, okay, yes, puns. But they’re Shakespearian puns so that makes them… well, I was going to say classy but you know what? No. Shakespearian puns aren’t classy. They’re pretty much all dirty. So, okay, this is… a cute redhead doing funny accents and reciting poetry […]
Alice in Space
March 2, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Wizards is written in the first person. Mostly to make it easier for me to lie to you. This is probably a terrible reason. And, yeah, it’s also because I realised when I started writing for Wizards that the story choices I make are different if I’m writing in third person than they are if I’m […]
25 Reasons That Writers Are Bug Fuck Nuts
February 29, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
THIS IS ALL TRUE. Except maybe the part about caffeine. I don’t ingest a lot of caffeine. Largely because it doesn’t seem to work on me. I long for the kind of pep-inducing can’t-sleep manic energy I have seen it induce in others. But in my case, no luck. So. That bit of this article is totally […]
Arthurian Robin Hood Sherlock
February 28, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
So on Friday night I read A Study in Scarlet. It was shorter than I remembered. But then, it’s been a while since I’ve read it. Possibly a very long while. I started to feel these echoes of familiarity as soon as I laid eyes on the inscription on the first page and the feeling […]
In This, As In Everything, Context Is King
February 27, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.” — Austin Kleon Writers are thieves. No, really. We have to be. There are only so many stories out there. Only so many words. Everything we create is a remix in some way. Everything derivative. A reproduction, […]
Life Isn’t a Card Game, it’s Fucking Russian Roulette
February 24, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I have this worrying feeling that my characters are psychotic. At least, I keep threatening to kill them and they seem to like it. What’s with that? Honestly, it’s like the more dangerous it is, the better they feel about the situation. Like they find it easier to accept someone threatening to kill them than […]
This is an Unreasonable Extrapolation Given the Evidence
February 23, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Raven: How goes? Me: I am writing extremely clever words. Well, funny words. Well, they’re making me laugh. Although I haven’t slept a lot lately, so. Yeah. Turns out if you write things in your sleep and then forget about them you get the opportunity to read your own work as if someone else has […]
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
February 21, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
Someone asked me the other day, How do you come up with ideas for your stories? I resisted the urge to laugh, because weirdly that’s the question writers seem to get asked the most. I say ‘weirdly’ because my instinctive response was along the line of, How do you breathe? I really have a hard […]
Not Writing a Love Story
February 20, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I feel like I’m accidentally writing a love story. I’m writing the story of these two guys meeting. And it’s going to be the beginning of an epic friendship. And that’s fine. That’s… dandy. But I’m at this point where they’re sort of beginning to trust each other for the first time. Where they realise […]
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March 5, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
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