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This is Not My Beautiful House. This is Not My Beautiful Wife.

January 8, 2014 by

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Do you ever get that feeling where you’re standing around in your own house and you suddenly think, “I live here” and that seems totally weird to you? Or you’re sitting with your feet up and you look down the stretch of your legs and go, “Wow, my legs are really long.” Or your parents […]

Another Case of Do or Die

December 20, 2013 by

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The video clip for this doesn’t make a whole lot of sense (although let’s be realistic, how many actually do?) and I love that the lyrics are… open to interpretation. Or, at least, I enjoy taking them far more literally than I am sure they are intended. She’s electric, she’s the current running through my […]

All Writers Are Liars

December 5, 2013 by

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Me: I don’t really know how to write it… Actually I’m beginning to think that every book I write I’m going to start by saying, “Okay, I don’t do this but…” Arkem: I was about to say. Me: The last one turned out okay, though, right? I don’t write thrillers. (But the first real book-like-thing […]

Now Usually I Don’t Do This…

November 22, 2013 by

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Today’s song doesn’t have a video clip. Technically it doesn’t even have an official existence. It’s a remix. By TheMattSmith.* And it starts with the immortal words, “Now usually I don’t do this…”** Go here and listen: Call Me Maybe vs. Ignition   * Which is funny because while I’m pretty sure he has nothing to […]

Running With Rum

November 15, 2013 by

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Soundtracks are really great for writing background music. They’re intentionally mood music and usually instrumental so there aren’t any words to get in the way. Rather than listen to entire soundtracks I usually just steal individual songs for my playlist. Songs that, now I’m thinking about it, tend to have a specific theme: running. Maybe that’s […]

Plotting For Pantsers

November 14, 2013 by

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Me: I need my brain for other things. Arkem: Plotting. Me: Yep. (Pause) It sounds so much worse when you say it. Writers tend to fall into two categories: plotters and pantsers (as in by-the-seat-of-their-pants). I have always fallen into the make-it-up-as-I-go-along category, stumbling blindly through the story woodland and bumping into things and calling […]

Another Reason Programming and Writing are More Similar Than You’d Think

November 4, 2013 by

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Once upon a time, for reasons that I could explain but that don’t make a lot of sense now, I learned to code. Not to the point that I could really use it for anything but enough so that I have a functional understanding of the basics of how code works and some of its […]

Don’t Tell Me It’s Progress Cause That’s Just a Lie

November 1, 2013 by

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Now don’t tell me it’s progress cause that’s just a lie And don’t even try to come up with an excuse why We were so busy worrying about them dropping the bomb We didn’t notice where our enemy was really coming from

Incendiary Device

October 31, 2013 by

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So you know how a couple of weeks ago when I first started thinking about the new book I said this story was really small? One character.* One drama. One POV. You remember when I said that? Turns out, I was wrong. Because there was a second character.** He’s always been there. Always been important. […]

There Was No One Left to Notice When They Came For Us

October 25, 2013 by

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First they put away the dealers, keep our kids safe and off the street. / Then they shooed away the bums, then they beat and bashed the queers, turned away asylum-seekers, fed us suspicions and fears. We didn’t raise our voice, we didn’t make a fuss. It’s funny there was no one left to notice […]

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