Sept 2013, Scholastic, 448 pages, digital ARC. Blurb: Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very […]
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Ada Hoffmann is both a friend and one of my favourite writers (and, let it be said, I loved her stories before I knew her as a friend) and she has one up at the moment in Strange Horizons, which is squeeful in and of itself. BUT, I think you should go and read it
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This seems to be the universe’s message to me at the moment, a reminder that writing, this thing I love, will never be fall-off-a-chair easy, but that that doesn’t mean it isn’t the right path for me. As Maggie Stiefvater pointed out the other week in her Tumblr response to my question, it’s easy sometimes
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Went for a drive today with the hubsical one and Small Boy. We were dropping SB off to his grandmother’s for the day, but were too early, so drove up through a suburb that we’re interested in living in one day. Ultimate heartbreak – saw our dream home (and I mean ULTIMATE dream home –
Read this article tonight – this one, here. It’s thesis is that you have a limited capacity for decision-making in any given period of time, and once you use them up, that’s it. Creative work involves a LOT of decision making, so if your daily life involves making a lot of hard or intense decisions,
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Just about the best example of characterisation I’ve seen in two sentences. My dearest Albert put on my stockings for me. I went in and saw him shave; a great delight for me. Queen Victoria, Feb 13 1840. Read more:Out of Tune Book Blast: Giveaway #2!ConfessionsMen Are Not Brainless Sheep (Shocking, I Know)
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Mostly about backing up your stuff, because my USB died DED this week, and despite the fact that I spent long and frustrated hou– mi– er, periods of time installing portable dropbox on it, it failed to sync to the net on Sunday last week, and I’ve lost an entire chapter of The Novel. It
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Also, because it is stuck in my head after showing it to my satire and comedy class today. You’re welcome. Read more:Made-it MondayAnimator vs Animated – The Original and The Best Why Bad Words Are Bad
Wow, it’s been forever since I did a link-a-bet. I think maybe not since the blog lived on Blogger! o.O But anyway, tonight: a selection of Things I Have Found. First of all, I am tremendously excited. My writing – I hesitate to say idol, because in my social context that’s a no-no, but
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Right what it says on the can: photos of my adventures in Laos 🙂 Sadly, a lack of photos of me cartwheeling off elephants into the Mekong, as we haven’t been able to retrieve those pics yet. Rest assured, I shall share if I can 😀 But for now, other pics! Constrained, of course, by
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