Subscribe:
RSS feed
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
I’m not. I can’t. Really. Thank you for the lovely words. Thank you for the things you told me. They’re not true. You told me it’s beautiful. I don’t know how that happened. I worked hard, yes, I did, but you. You said it was beautiful. I can’t have done this thing I’ve already done, because that […]
I’m going off-script now. I’m going to need you. Now we get up to our elbows in blood and bone, together. In a few days, I’m going to start a series of professionally relevant, deeply difficult edits. Publishing, so I gather, is a business that keeps its cards close to its chest; I don’t want […]
When I was young, I had a psychotic break. I don’t remember exactly how long it lasted — it was quite a while before things settled to the point where I could reasonably claim that my experiences were within normal psychological limits. To put it plainly, I went utterly insane for a period of several […]
I’m a cynic. Not a believer, not a hater. I don’t think my personal beliefs really belong in my fiction except in subtle ways I can’t help (they leak into my characterisation, I imagine), so let’s just leave it at that. “Maybe” is a trilogy of books [N.B.: this is no longer true]. I dislike […]
I haven’t written anything good since I finished the first draft of my manuscript. I have a sneaky little demon in the back of my brain who wails desperately that I won’t ever write anything good ever. again. which is total nonsense, of course, because I know exactly why I’m not writing well, and it will […]
A facebook conversation between the Love of my Life and me. (Please note: I am not attached to Tamil film star Rajnikanth. LofL’s facebook currently sports an image of Rajni from the film “Endhiran” as its profile picture.) Wishing you all a happy First Draft Day! May yours be as rewarding as mine.
Drawing for prizes will take place on May 1st. Please note that there are so few entries, the next SIX people who get the answer right are guaranteed a prize. … I’m not kidding when I said I’d give you a prize if you told me the name of the film that produced this still: […]
The end of my first draft is approaching the same way an ocean steamer moves through water. I’m in a little wooden dinghy — white, with a blue stripe and red underneath, the dinghy my grandpa made with his own two hands, in case you’re wondering — watching this monster cut smoothly towards me, and […]
After an all-night writing session, I am entitled to my coffee. I ponder the problem, early-rising cats frothing about my ankles. The grinder is empty and, gourmand that I am, I have only whole beans. Oh, but I can’t do it to them — they were so good and went to sleep at sensible times. […]
not very alice 
April 10, 2012 by Alice M.
2