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We Interrupt This Program
I’ll be offline for a few days. You’ll be all right here by yourselves, right? Please help yourself to the pretzels and diet Cokes. Don’t forget to mop up any spills. You know I’ll know you were here.
While on the Subject of Bad Memory…
…as I was earlier: In this case, however, the subject isn’t “bad memory” in the sense of “Huh? Did I just say something?” It’s more along the lines of, “Holy sh!t. Did I actually live through that?!?” Via the MAD about Words blog (discovered, in turn, via DCWYTBMA), we have word of a definitive list [...]
Like a Candle in the Wind
God, do I love moments of unintended poetry. God, do I hate the ravages of age which, within minutes, can scatter those moments to the far edges of memory. Then you have to mount a whole frigging safari to recover them… The Missus and I were on the way home from work yesterday. (We don’t [...]
Good Will, Slumming
[Entry from William Shakespeare's recently discovered blog, "Honour'd in the Breach"] Well now I’m not so sure workshopping Shrew was such a great idea. Like I said the other day, I was really looking forward to the new group. I’d been working with the others for like SO LONG that we were all starting to [...]
Living for Books
I. Want. This. Wall. (Found here, at the Arch Daily site.) The house, perhaps predictably, is the house of a writer. The Missus says — when she’s trying to pick me up from the doldrums — that she believes I can write almost anything. To which I say, “How do I find out what this [...]
The Others Next Door
Stewart Neville (who participates as “Conduit” in the blogalogue at various writerly sites) is an Irishman with a hard-boiled fictional voice and a voice of sweet reason — or at least reason, period — when not constrained by a “Once upon a time… The End” frame. His post yesterday offers up a case in point. [...]
Love and Laughter
Yesterday I went into a soapbox-lecture rant, shall we say? (yes, let’s — rants seem to be another thing that’s done a lot), about some of the comments to a recent post on Nathan Bransford’s blog. At the end of every week, Bransford posts a “This Week in Publishing” entry summing up recent industry news [...]
The Business of Publishing Is…
…surprise — it’s business! In a blog post the other day, literary agent Nathan Bransford unleashed a torrent by asking nascent and/or, umm, under-published writers two questions: Question #1: Let’s say there was a seer who could tell you definitively whether or not you have the talent to be a published writer. Absolute 100% accuracy. [...]
Obligatory Proust Post
Today’s the birthday of Marcel Proust, born in 1871. Found this quote from him (in a letter to Andre Gide), courtesy of the Today in Literature e-newsletter: I believe, contrary to the fashion among our contemporaries, that one can have a very lofty idea of literature, and at the same time have a good-natured laugh [...]
“What’s Your Book About?”
I hate that question. (I hate a lot of questions, grump that I am.) There’s no easy way to answer it, really — not just me, for Merry-Go-Round, but a lot of other writers, for their books. After you’ve spent months or years ensuring that it would be about something, when somebody asks the question [...]
