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A Distant Time, A Distant Space, That’s Where We’re Living

June 14, 2013 by

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All the thoughts you never see / You are always thinking Look for love in evidence / That you’re worth keeping As far as I can tell there isn’t an official video clip for this song, but this one is sort of a love letter to the earth and includes a guy conducting the ocean. […]

I Do Like to Set Things On Fire

June 13, 2013 by

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I have around a quarter of the book left to edit at this point and my sidebar is full of these weird sarcastic notes to self. Last week when I was sick I wasn’t really focusing clearly enough to want to mess with the text so I just flipped through it and made comments. That’s […]

I Don’t Want to Tell You What I Dream About

June 12, 2013 by

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You know how in Inception you can walk around in other people’s dreams? I love that idea to pieces. I want to get inside everybody’s heads. But I don’t want you in my mine. It’s not — well, yes, okay, it’s partly that I don’t want you to see what goes on in my head. […]

And the Songs They Get Louder, Each One Better Than Before

June 7, 2013 by

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and you’re singing the songs thinking this is the life and you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size where you gonna go where you gonna sleep tonight If I had slept I might actually have something to say about this. As it is I am going to listen to […]

Why Introduce Logic When Madness is More Interesting?

June 6, 2013 by

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I have this expression. I don’t know exactly what it looks like, but it must be fairly obvious, because sometimes I’ll be standing there listening to someone talk and all of a sudden they’ll pull themselves up short and say, “No. Not like that. Not literally.” The thing is, I understand about context. I do. […]

Getting Your Readers to Take a Leap of Faith

June 5, 2013 by

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I think that in every story the author gets one official suspension of disbelief. You can have one thing that is totally ridiculous that you’re asking everyone to ignore. Most science fiction and fantasy texts use it for the premise of the story. Aliens are real? Okay. Tiny blonde superhero can ignore the laws of […]

I Wanna Do Bad Things With You

May 31, 2013 by

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If you read the lyrics of this song literally rather than metaphorically then you could consider this the running refrain of the main characters of Drink Me. It’s also the first of a long line of songs in this playlist that include the word ‘bad’ in the title.   Playlist link here.  

Life After Google Reader

May 21, 2013 by

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I just — finally — got around to finding myself something to replace Google Reader. There was a brief beautiful moment where I zeroed out my feeds and you know, that sort of thing needs celebrating. I could have invented a new cocktail for the occasion but I decided instead that mind-searing admin work was […]

Cobrastyle

May 17, 2013 by

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This is a song that, it turns out, very few people know by name. I am weirdly fond of it. Partly because the band is the Teddybears (who are Swedish and strange and for some reason tend to be pictured with the heads of bears…) and partly because the chorus gets stuck in my head, […]

How You Write a Synopsis

May 16, 2013 by

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First you spend an entire day writing (and rewriting) three hundred words. Then, just at the point where you’re going crazy and starting to see things in the text that aren’t there you ask someone else to read it. Hopefully they will say something nice like, I’d read that. Hopefully they won’t say things like, […]

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