I did not do any writing on my book today, which is bunkum, as I could very easily have done. While the appointment at the dental hospital (not the mental hospital, that's tomorrow) was long, it was also only an X-ray and a consultation that I just had to wait a very long time for. I could have gone straight home and chucked out the remaining plot ( Read more... )

Contemplating the major protagonists in the Magicians book I realise I've represented four social classes rather by accident: the ambitious underclass, the noble working class, the nascent liberal middle class (who, in the manner of liberal middle classes, is not as liberal as he thinks he is), and the fading aristocracy. the instinctive love ( Read more... )

Moments of Intimacy, Love, and Kindness

Went to this exhibition with my mother in what must have been about 2002, and spent a while trying to get far enough away from her that I could have emotions about pictures in peace (emotional expression of any kind in the presence of my mother makes me intensely uncomfortable). At the other end of the ( Read more... )

"You wouldn't like it," I tell her, "it's cheap. You hate cheap ( Read more... )

But I'm pretty pleased with this bit:

Making a monster is not like making a man.

To make most things, one must add things together. To make a man, take a boy and add time and experience, add judgement and intelligence, add heartbreak and a tempering or forging of ambition.

To make a monster, one must take things away.

So I nagged villainny into running SiNtE again this year! Y'all should sign the fuck up.

Meme from Scott: Pick a character I write, and I will give you the top five ideas/concepts/other I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to depicting them accurately. This includes both original characters and characters about whom I ( Read more... )

Title: Misdirection
Fandom: Inception
Word Count: 6,670 [why did it take me this long argh]
Rating: That is highly dependent on how you read it. PG as baseline.
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Warnings: Author is white, able-bodied, cisgender, and European.
Disclaimer: Please don't sue me // I used the phrase "at the speed of a lethargic snail hopped up on ( Read more... )

In which I am quite, quite insufferable, vain, pretentious, and prone to making charts.

Although the key idea for the structure of Pass The Parcel came about while I was pointedly ignoring someone at the Literary Festival at my university (I sat at the back of the talk and wrote notes for poems; reader, I pretty much wasted my tertiary education ( Read more... )