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Patty made a comment yesterday that prompted this post…thanks, Patty. Let me start by saying that there is something that does remain a mystery to me, and that’s how authors – some of them, anyway – seem to know exactly … Continue reading
Glenda Larke
Sometimes I get some intimation of what people think about writers – and it’s not quite what one may expect. Here’s a question from a poster on a Message Board about sff: is everyone a potentual writer? Is it jus … Continue reading
A friend emailed yesterday. She had been telling me for ages how hard she was finding the writing of her new contracted book – it was coming along far too slowly and each page had to be wrung out of … Continue reading
Aargh. Came back from a weekend away to find my laptop has no power – I suspect something drastic happened to the insides, as just before everything went black, it went very, very hot… I am now an anomaly. A … Continue reading
One of my favourite fantasy authors, Guy Gavriel Kay, has been interviewed in the September issue of Locus Magazine, and he has – as one might expect of such a talented and interesting storyteller – some wise things to say. … Continue reading
I had an email from someone I didn’t know the other day, saying he was up to chater (sic) 8 in his novel and, if I wanted to help him with any aspects of it, to plase (sic) let him … Continue reading
I had a radio interview with Grant Stone on Faster Than Light today. (That’s in Western Australia). I don’t think I was very coherent on one question he asked, which arose out of my portrayal of the main protagonist in Heart … Continue reading
First person writing has a long and illustrious history – from older classics like Dickens’s Great Expectations or R.L.Stevenson’s Treasure Island, to more modern classics such as Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Kerouac’s On the Road, Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath or Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, to modern … Continue reading
I love reading the kind of book where you start and then it’s like entering a tunnel. Everything on all sides just disappears – the people around you, the sounds, sights, all that stress, all those niggling guilts about what … Continue reading
The Sunday regular blog: grammar and such… There is nothing that so marks a piece of writing as unprofessional as a feral apostrophe. And yet writing “it’s” when you mean “its” is an easy typo, and one that you can’t … Continue reading