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The Soundtrack to Your Writing
The song you write to, the one you use to get you into the mood, the groove – what is it?
Maybe it’s a different song for a different project. My all-purpose pumped-up for writing song? Depending on the level of rejections it may be Christina’s Fighter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7pQpNx-F4 or Pink’s Bad Influence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsM0RLAK1nY&feature=related.
Some days it’s Richard Ashcroft’s* Break the Night
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On Writing Processes, Old Dogs and New Tricks, Changing Horses Mid-stream and Mixed Metaphors
The blinding moment of clarity I had this week came as a result of some VanderMeerish sagacity.
You see, post-Clarion I’ve been trying to become one of those writers who write something every day. Every damned day. That’s in addition to doing the things that are attached to the business of being writerly: checking submissions, accepting rejections, dancing in an undignified
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