I was up marking coursework till nearly 3am last night and now my head is full of wool and my neck feels simultaneously stiff and too wobbly. Today was running up and down stairs chasing more coursework, sending the students out to buy plastic folders and find me the hole punch because surely you're not submitting THAT? It's all in but one now,
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There was a TV show about the writing of Lust which just put me off so much I've never read it. He went to the publishers with 5 ideas and they didn't like any of them, so he picked another out of the air. SEX, with a wish. They said yes. And then involved their editing process so much they underminded what was already a hairline-good idea. Criticizing him to the extent of a 'mixed metaphor' when the original (something like 'he walked like a bag of bones, shaken) was perfect, evocative, and for flips sake he's the writer not your jobbing sub-ed. Get out of his face.
Before CelestialWeasel says it, 253 was CW's favourite ambitious project of that year which eneded up not bad at all.
I liked (loved) the novella which begins The Child Garden more than the concluding second part, which to me went too much overblown, as is his want in endings.
Should I read Air then?
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[Also for the benefit of anyone else, I think Cory Doctorow is a REALLY bad writer]
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I can sort of see where he was coming from with the SEX thing. It's the sort of thing I could imagine saying in desperation if my five other ideas had been rejected and I wanted to write a book, any book. And the book is flawed and a bit of a mess, but it's still got some great stuff in it.
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Is Ms. W one of the people who has vanished beyond our ken? Certainly beyond mind.
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Hey, come on, recent BP 'revelations' are not a million miles away.
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