Monthly Archives: March 2010
Writers as Car Accidents in Progress
Watched a wannabe author explode hissef today, yea I did.
He emailed a mouthful of abuse to several members of staff of an independent bookstore, and cc’d it to a whole bunch of other folk. Carrying on coz they wouldn’t stock his self-published tome.
What have I said before about being professional? About respecting the business decisions of others? About not burning bridges? Maintaining
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Random Thoughts on a Day with a Headache
#1: if you’ve got a headache, no amount of positive thinking will make it go away.
#2: staring at a screen will most likely make said headache worse.
#3: ideas that may occur to you when you’re caught between a drugged sleep and a blinding headache will either be (a) crap or (b) really good, but completely beyond recall.
#4: you are grateful
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Callout for Subs – TPP
From Alisa K over at TPP:
Twelfth Planet Press is announcing a reading period for our 2011 Anthology: Speakeasy. All the details are over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
twelfthplanet here.
Speakeasy is a roaring, lively and exciting new original anthology, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and published by Twelfth
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Inspiration!
… or not … I find Big Bang Theory helps with most things … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5oc-70Fby4
What I Do When I Get Stuck – by Margo Lanagan
Appearing over at Steph Su Reads (via the Bibliophile Stalker), awesome advice from the Queen of the Wicked Tale, Margo Lanagan (long may she reign).
Lots of people (including many schoolchildren) ask me what I do when a story stops working, or just stops – stops feeding itself through my brain onto
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