So yesterday, every time I went in the bathroom, I heard a rustling scratchy noise. At first I thought it was people walking by–the bathroom window opens onto the porch, and the driveway is right there. People walk by all the time. Then it was 0300 and I was on my way to bed and […]
I’m a Pisces. I may not practice astrology, but I’m aware of the theory, and I can tell you–I am so a Pisces. A book I was reading recently¹ started the explanations of the signs with a lightbulb joke to illuminate (hee hee) the personalities of the signs. How many Aries does it take to
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So apparently there’s this tradition on Twitter. Here’s the first part of Kolya. Hope you like. (Yes, I know the first paragraph is confusing. It’s a first draft.) One minute Kolya was dying, heels drumming the wall, too-short nails clawing at the hand clamped on his throat, vision darkening on the leer of his john,
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Because I am deep in the beginning of Another Glorious Book™ and unlikely to post coherently for a while, allow me to share some stuffs I need to get out of my head by getting it into yours.¹ For those who found Doomsday: BP Gulf Disaster frighteningly plausible (I did no research to debunk it
The new book, that is. 2,000 words on Kolya yesterday. Damn, that felt good. ETA, many hours later: and then I got sucked back into writing, and never finished the post. 1,783 words yesterday, and I am making Kolya sick. It’s awful, but grand how well it’s going. Writing this book is going to fucking
So I’ve been pondering. I don’t think I write weird stuff (not like the Boccalone Prosciutto ice cream I was reading about today), but I do know my work is not easily shoved into any of the boxes available at the moment. Oh, some of it–Fidelis would be an easy sell were it ready, I
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So you know I’ve been poking at structure lately. Tonight mostly as a lark, (to look as if I were doing something) I started poking at working out a plot for Kolya. I started free-form. Just…writing things down as they occurred to me. That was getting me nowhere fast, and someone wanted to war, so
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