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Here is what I was listening to: Here is what I wrote (excerpt from work-in-progress Ugly Ink): I sit, flipping a coin, thumbnail to thumbnail, in the moonlight. As it arcs through the air it leaves a slime-trail of winking dew, points straight to where it will land and so I can catch it—again, over […]
Peaches: your characters are high on dangerous substances like sex & adrenaline. Peaches: every scene you write is angry.
This is one of those times I just cannot believe I didn’t post this sooner. Instructions: to Thoroughly Happy, press play.
A Prose Poem by a Synesthetic, Inspired by Zoe Keating’s “Tetrishead” Music spills from her in rivulets, winding about itself and through the room — suddenly a night sky, a scatter of light from stars — red wine thick like oil paint. It smells of windy hills out here in the middle of dark and […]
This has expanded into a feature of the blog, I think. I listen to Lähtö when I want to write the cold and lonely places of the world.
Stress! It is very stressful! Some things have been going on. One of which is that we’ve decided to submit Maybe to Kirkus Reviews, so we’ll have to have the manuscript in perfect shape about oh, three months earlier than expected in time to allow for a Kirkus quote in the printed copies. Herewith, I […]
Sometimes I write a chapter and I know exactly where it came from. Late in the book, my main character (a 20-something coke addict named Maybelle) gives in to her addiction under the pressure of anxiety and consumes more drugs than she can handle. I have tried, throughout the book, to fashion a parallel between […]
March 15, 2013 by Alice M.
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