Keep It Regular
It is funny, but a lot of different stories have been crystallising, and the narrative advancement in one story has been having a knock on effect in other projects. I have been working hard to get my time management knocked into shape,…
Not the easiest bone to break, I don’t think – but somehow I managed to pull it off. It took me a second to piece together the pattern of the events. I had the right of way, and I was going to…
Built from mistakes. Stories can be made of beautiful mistakes. Jazz can emerge out of riffs that are happy accidents. Do you have an ear for it? When your paint runs can see the signal to imagination that it sends? There are…
Does the mis-estimation of self lead to the mis-estimation that comes from others? Is it merely your own inability to be sure-footed that invites someone to test your stumbling? I sometimes feel like I telegraph my weaknesses, and if that doesn’t let…
Rhythm changes something about your writing. It’s a game that you play to distort your normal practices into a more interesting shape – to distort the writing. Who wants to keep writing the same old shit over and over? A winning formula…
A resurrect day. Getting sick sucks. Sudden sickness that comes and goes in a day is simultaneously a pain and a blessing – yes, good, it went; but then – were you really sick or faking it? I know the almost puking…
Can you write fifty things about the same day and have them each be compelling? If not, why not? Your vocabulary needs to be stretched – your magic is blunt. Do you think certain words shouldn’t be used? Then I humbly suggest…
I don’t really plan out the way a book is going to end – I am a by-the-seats-of-your-pants writer. Why? Because it makes it more interesting for me, and hopefully more alive for the reader. I do sometimes write out the chapter…
If you need mascots to be able to write, what will you do if you ever lose them? If you have only one place you can write, what if you were unable to return there? It can be easy to convince yourself…
It is interesting when you write what most people consider to be pretty esoteric shit, and it is dressed up in a cobbled together pseudo-science that draws from a probably skewed view of physics, and a knowledge of the way language works,…