Tag Archives: writing
Stray Thoughts on Long Sentences
My writerly posts seem to have been few and far between lately. Possibly because my brain hasn’t been working or has been infected by a case of ‘wombatitis’, which is a lesser known but still virulent strain of laziness. But I have taken some tablets (okay, half a block of choclit) to combat the wombatitis and
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A Plug – Quality Horror and Science Fiction
For quality horror and science fiction, head over here http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/. Apex have “stuff” by such fine and twisted minds as Lavie Tidhar, Ekaterina Sedia, Theodora Goss, Alethea Kontis, Lisa Mannetti and more. Nothing wrong with any of the foregoing.
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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Information of the Useful Kind (and Tiny Plaid Ninjas!)
The inestimable Meg Vann at AWM Online prrovides some excellent linkery goodness, stirs it in a pot and produces: GOLD! Useful info (and Tiny Plaid Ninjas score a jersey too). Go here http://blog.awmonline.com.au/ to share the wisdom.
"Words" by Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton, “Words”
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ones we do our best,
sometimes they swarm like insects
and leave not a sting but a kiss.
They can be good as fingers.
They can be trusty as the rock
you stick your bottom on.
But they can be both daisies and bruises.
Yet I am in love with words.
They are doves falling out of
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A Taster from New Ceres Nights …
The Piece of Ice in Miss Windermere’s Heart
Violet liked a challenge, most of the time. But then again, most of the time she was not hanging upside down over the bed of one very fat, very drunk, impossibly rich noble. Breathing in the fumes that rose from him might very well finish
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Wisdom from Cory Doctorow
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html
Lives at Locus Online.
Reason #412 to love Jack Dann
Not only is the man a great writer and a rocking editor, he is a generous professional. He says wise things here and he says nice things here: http://blogs.abc.net.au/articulate/2009/03/flycon-intervie.html