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Tag Archives: writing
The Muse …
… is not a sylph in diaphinous robes, gently plucking a harp, dancing in circles in a glade, tra-la-la’ing.
At least, my muse isn’t.
This is my muse, snurched from the great glory that it the internetz.
Tagged inspiration, the muse, writing
The Lair of the Evil Drs Brain
So, what is the Lair of the Evil Drs Brain?
Basically it’s Lisa Hannett and I talking to each other and other people about stuff. Writing stuff.
Topics will include:
Steampunkery
Fairytaleosity
Phat Phantasy
Where you write and how you get in the mood?
Should a muumuu by mandatory
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I answered some questions for Jildy Sauce …
… a lot about fairy tales and some about writing process and I also give the (only partially facetious) executive summary for writers wanting to be published. Thanks for asking, Paul Kane 
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The author of the magnificent mosaic, Sourdough
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Something wise snurched from China Miéville’s Rejectamentalist Manifesto
‘A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly
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When I teach …
… this is the stuff I tell you not to do.
Tagged agents, cover letters, publishing, writing
Day Five …
… of a migraine and I’m over it … days 1-2 were low level annoying throbbing pain behind the eyes … day 3 was OMG-give-me-painkillers-or-take-off-my-head-please agony … days 4-5 are back to low level aching … I just want it to go away … and so, a lolcat in lieu of actual content until my brain and eyes stop trying
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Tagged china mieville, drive-by interview, lolcats, migraine, writing
Pondering …
… the idea of self-promotion, something with which a lot of writers are quite uncomfortable.
I’ve just finished writing an article for the next edition of the Australian Writer’s Marketplace on finding a literary agent … one of the points I put in there was ‘Write first, agent second’.
‘Splain?
Sure.
If you’re approaching a literary agent, you need to have
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Oh the Relief
… which sounds like an advert for a heartburn pill, but is not.
It’s the relief of a writer who, having finished up a few projects, has had empty brain and a dose of contentment for a while … and not a creative thought in sight. This is a disturbing phase, when one of the voices in the head starts to
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Tagged novella, ragged run, writing
And even more wisdom …
This is one reason why I love my friends: they are wise.
We writers suffer together, even though some think writing is a solitary activity … and it is at the basic putting-words-on-page-and-hoping-some-stick level … but still, we suffer together … suffering solidarity. And sometimes a friend writes something that is so true and so real that it hits home, because they’ve
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Revenge in Action
This is what happens when you (a) let David the IT guy read your writing and (b) give him sass over a sustained period of time :
It’s too good not to share. Thanks, David
Note: no children were harmed in the making of this scurrilous image.
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