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Still considering self-publishing something

April 16, 2009 in creativity
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Am still toying with the un-put-downable idea of trying this. I promised myself I would, this year, and thanks to E. I ended up reading some LJ posts about self-publishing, and am now more tempted than ever. I’m considering doing a trial run: releasing some erotic romance into the wild, or rather, onto lulu.com, just [...]

Writing and playing

November 14, 2008 in creativity, writing
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So there’s been a discussion within and around Supernatural fandom lately, because one of the fans posted a particularly enthusiastic post that was part fictional conversation and part reflection on one of the actors. I won’t get into the various criticisms or defences that could be made about the original post, except to say I’m [...]

In the kitchen: inspiration

October 9, 2008 in creativity
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Today I’ve been doing one of the most enjoyable parts of creating a new story: the part where you’re not actually writing. Every writer I know does this. Some people feel guilty about it; some of us have embraced it. But we all have these things-which-aren’t-writing that are, somehow, crucial to the writing process. A [...]

  • But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. ~Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  • He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. ~Robertson Davies, Tempest Tost
  • "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." ~Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living
  • Sex is important because it is central to being human, because it intersects everything else, because it is the physical realm's metaphor for the chaos and texture of our spiritual and psychological lives. Sallie Tisdale, talk Dirty to me
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