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Peek Question Time
benpeek is asking Five Questions, & here are the answers to mine. Over on his journal, all week, is interview week. I am not over there, I am here, because I don’t have anything to pimp at the moment. I am just home, writing & watching TV. You should check his blog out all week,…
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Brilliant Brilliant
Friends, the search is over. I have finally been summarised in someone else’s prose: I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. — Ashleigh Brilliant Ashleigh Brilliant: “history’s only full time, professional, published epigrammatist” *; creator of Brilliant Thoughts; writer of such books as I HAVE ABANDONED MY SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND…
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Question Time
Question: What are you if you fail to be a hack writer? Also: As an artist, are you required to live at the extreme edge of your art? That is, if you love heavy metal, & like to play heavy metal every Tuesday night at your local bar, are you still a heavy metal rocker…
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Update Over the Road
It was raining today, so the spiderman-loving bum who lives in front of the church across the road was not in sight, but the fact I found myself looking for him reminded me of the last time I ran into him. He’d scored himself a mobile phone, one of them new-fangled ones with the cameras…
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Writing and Irritants
This one rambles. At the Swancon panel on ‘staying creative’, Charles de Lint admitted he’d wanted to be a musician. The times weren’t right for the music he liked to play, however, so he went into writing. (You’ve heard of writing, right? Crazy little fallback gig that it is … ;). Both Terry Dowling and…
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I haven’t seen a news report in a week, no wonder I’m in a good mood
Back from Swancon & — as Bill Bailey would say — “hilarity ensued”. Having left little Monkey-Dog, the cat, in the care of house-sitters (really cat-sitters, but I don’t want to hurt her feelings by saying that out loud), I have come home to discover Monkey has crucial information she wishes to impart. Sadly, she…
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Swancon 05
Tomorrow I will be jetting off to sunny Perth for the 30th annual Swancon (Swancon XXX). I’m not one of those net cafe kinda people, so it’s unlikely I’ll have any kind of electronic life over the next week. My apologies for this interruption to your schedules ;). Possibly I’ll return with some stories of…
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Writing & swimming & singing & more
“When Anthony feels his own reason to stay, it is like swimming. And it is the rhythm of the swimming itself, not how far it takes him, that gives him certainty.” — Charlotte Wood, The Submerged Cathedral OK, not, ostensibly, a quote about writing, but it works that way for me. Also, it reminds me…
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Wanted: One house in the country
I have decided the cause of all my problems — and I mean all of them — is that I am chronically not-a-morning-person. Also, if you would like a list of Russian names, you can go here and here. The internet is excellent. That is all.