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  • Stephen Fry envies me

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    Oh, yeah, he envies me all right! Funny thing is, I envy him. “I don’t take another job. I don’t do anything. I go up to my house in the country and pull out all the plugs, virtually. I just do it nonstop until I’m finished. I envy writers who can write on planes and…

  • An exceptionally pleasant event

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    I’m very pleased to say Ticonderoga Online is back. I’m pleased because it’s a classy zine with a fine editorial staff and already, at only Issue # 3, a growing reputation for excellence. I’m pleased because it’s an Australian venue that doesn’t commence with a vowel. AND I’m pleased, because they asked if they could…

  • The internet keeps getting cooler

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    I have just followed Seth Godin’s advice & now I feel like a god: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/watching_the_bl.html So I built a few Technorati watchlist items and I created myself a bloglines account & now I can stay up-to-date with everything that’s going on in the world, including all my buddies’ blogs — even those of you not…

  • Protected: Thoth Tarot — Too Good to Resist

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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • A world without ending(s)

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    Paul Wells admits to be a ‘serial book-unfinisher’ over here at macleans.ca, & it got me thinking: just how important *is* an ending, anyhow? Have our lives become too darn busy for proper resolution? Or have endings just ceased to be important? Someone once said that you can tell how much you’re loving a book…

  • And for my birthday I got …

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    … a Ditmar nomination for my story, ‘Number 3 Raw Place’. Yay, me, & all the other nominees. Some fine nominations there (you know who you are). Curiously, the Ditmar list doesn’t appear to be up at the Natcon website yet, so I’m going to link here and here. I’m very chuffed ‘Raw’ was nominated.…

  • Cold comforts

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    I’ve been told that if I actually *lived* in a place where it snowed, the whole romance of snow would be um, dissolved for me. I was told this most vehemently by Australians based in Toronto. Toronto, they said, is cold. ‘You think this is cold?’ they asked, gesturing at the September skyline, ‘This isn’t…

  • Necessary Ambition

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  • What if it is?

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    And in other ‘fun things you, too, can do’, today I updated my will. It was just an overdue thing — nothing at all to do with all the dying that’s featured in discussions lately. I stumbled across the half-completed will under an overdue water bill (which seemed particularly poignant at the time) & thought,…

  • Writing and loneliness

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    Quoting Neal Pollack (pollack_blog) who’s quoting Jonathan Safran Foer: “Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer The New York Times Magazine, 2-7-05. http://nealpollack.com/archives/2005/02/index.html#000258