"Get the water right down to your socks."

[greygirlbeast]

Rainy and cold in Providence. Each spring, this actually-late-winter stage seems to last longer and longer. Like a sort of time dilation. I need it to fuck away elsewhere, but Nature does as Nature does. Except, of course, when we break it. Though, even then, it does as it does given a new set of rules, as it always would have done. Regardless,

Comments

[ashlyme]

I keep thinking that your To Read pile must be at least as tall as you are!

I haven't read any of Joyce's recent novels, but The Tooth Fairy is fucking marvellous; have you read it?

I'm not sure if I could face an 'easy read'; I'd like a book to charm or challenge me, or affect me in some way. I guess most 'supermarket novels' are equivalent to ready meals.

I hope that Blue Canary turns out to be fun for *you* to write.

[greygirlbeast]

but The Tooth Fairy is fucking marvellous; have you read it?

I haven't.

I hope that Blue Canary turns out to be fun for *you* to write.

Same here.

[chris_walsh]

I hope that Blue Canary turns out to be fun for *you* to write.

And that it happily surprises you: "Holy shit, I can do this!" May the stretching of your writing muscles be a little more comfortable than it's often been.

Now I'm wondering, do you know any young people who you especially hope get to read Blue Canary? I don't know if you're acquainted with many youths.

[greygirlbeast]

"Holy shit, I can do this!"

That would be wonderful.

Now I'm wondering, do you know any young people who you especially hope get to read Blue Canary? I don't know if you're acquainted with many youths.

Nope.

[captaincurt81]

May your new fictional direction invigorate and liberate you. And personally, I'm thrilled by the prospect of imminent death by book avalanche. I skirt the edge of this disaster daily.

[greygirlbeast]

I'm thrilled by the prospect of imminent death by book avalanche.

Not me.

[whiskeychick]

Let me know when the mountain has been mined down some; I have two others I want to send, but do not want to cause an avalanche.

[greygirlbeast]

Will do.

[greygirlbeast]

It's turned to snow - I can't stand it anymore!

Yerp.

[pisceanblue]

I see people whine about how Kathe Koja gave up the ghost after Kink, how she "lost it" when she started writing YA, to which I can only say - fuck off. I've had enough of this.
And it's such a ridiculous statement, it says more about a person's prejudices in regards to YA than about Kathe's writing, which is as wonderful as ever, thank you very much.

[greygirlbeast]

And it's such a ridiculous statement, it says more about a person's prejudices in regards to YA than about Kathe's writing, which is as wonderful as ever, thank you very much.

Exactly.

Never mind how wasted she must have been after doing The Cipher (née The Funhole) through Kink, published in a very short space of time (1991-1996, I think).

[pisceanblue]

Keeping in mind one of your other points, I came across this quote today by South African author Elizabeth Lowry:
There’s a sense in which writing is simply scar tissue, the attempt to create a meaningful self out of a compromised one
...and it made me think of your observation regarding "telling the truth."

[greygirlbeast]

There’s a sense in which writing is simply scar tissue, the attempt to create a meaningful self out of a compromised one

I've not read her, but yes. Sometimes. In part.