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  • Today’s visual inspiration

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    is this: And get this, it’s a painting. See more of Alyssa Monks’ work here and at her website.

  • Today’s outcomes

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    This morning a good morning on The Great Unsaleable. It’s coming together nicely on this draft. By taking a secondary character and making her more primary, I’ve — unexpectedly — added a layer of logic to the events. This is gratifying & confusing in equal measure. (I’m trying not to question it. Go with it,…

  • The weight of the chain mail bikini

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    Now & then I’m surprised out of my jadedness. Like when someone taps me on my feminist sensibility & asks me how responsible I’m being. And I wonder: hell, how responsible AM I being?! In SF and fantasy are we creating female characters who are restrained by the gender limitations of our own society? What…

  • Some final notes from a cold brain

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    The lurgy is finally lifting, thankfully. For a while there it was impossible to sleep AND breathe simultaneously. Which can add a layer of difficulty to, oh, everything. From the weekend surfing: * Rebecca Solnit, “You know, a lot of my work has been based on the field of disaster sociology, which emerged after the…

  • Big realisations for the day

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    Realisation #1: there’s an event in the Great Unsaleable novel that I’ve had pegged as the end-of-act-1 event. Trouble is, of course, this means Act 1 is about 50,000 words long (if Scrivener is to be believed). I’ve tried shifting stuff out to the later acts, but a lot of it makes no sense that…

  • More great finds in the surf

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    Yes, still with the lurgy. Which gives me plenty more time to surf the net. Even managed to do some writing on the Great Unsaleable (ie. novel) today. If it wasn’t for the poor health, I could really get used to this lifestyle. In today’s best pickings: Lev Grossman responds to the responses he garnered…

  • More from the day’s bedtime reading

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    Brain not much good today — kinda like a small child is living inside my head making ‘gah?!’ sounds at every new thing. But, lurgy has abated somewhat from this morning, which is cheering. Here’s some of what I read today: * Her debts now total a staggering $24 million, consolidated with one lender with…

  • Better read

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    I’m home with the dreaded lurgy, so thought it timely to clean up the browser windows & list some of what I’ve been reading lately. * “These “lost” covers form a parallel universe in which the books we read and love exist in entirely different skins.” — Kill your darlings: an article on rejected cover…

  • Next stage: promotion

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    Years back, when I was clearly more of an optimist than I am now, I started collecting links on ‘promoting your book’. Just the links, not the articles, because I didn’t want to fill up my computer with useless words. And now that I have a book, of course all those links are out of…

  • Hurrahs!

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    A quick update because I have to do some novel writing tonight, but wanted to say hurrah! and thanks! to all the people who came to the very first launch of my very first book, A Book of Endings at Cabinet Bar over the Continuum weekend in Melbourne. I’m not sure if it was the…