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Category Archives: bears

Joy

Aural hallucinations and the strange attraction of Mogwai for writers of dark, comic fiction. Contains tea.

Writer as cartographer

In which the author compares himself to a cartographer, a small hairy mammal, and talks about towels.

The return of the cow(s)

Most writers’ muses are ladies, or cats, or lady cats. Occasionally, very occasionally, they are cat-ladies. But I feel my own muse is an over-friendly cow, breath steaming and nostrils foaming. Its eyes are wild, and it has a purple sticker on its flank. And like all good city boys, I haven’t a clue if it is male or female.

Storyclash

Ever dreamt that you were offered your dream house, to live in rent free, but you had to give in to the dark side – literally. An officer in the Imperial Army in exchange for self-closing drawers?

Troublesome words

Post-rationalisation rationalisation. Or why it’s ok to read a dictionary in bed.

Writing in bubbles

On how writing is the opposite of drinking beer.

Snow days suspended

I didn’t get enough out of today. Not enough sleep. Not enough action. Not enough food. Fell somewhere between a snow day, a work day and an angst mountain.
Listy was very excited about the snow. And I had a snowball fight and helped build a snowman before 10am. But… but… I didn’t feel the excitement [...]

Shh! Writer at work

I’m doing that thing.  You know.  The stringing words together.  A secret squirrel project.  But do not be confused, dear reader – it does not involve squirrels.  Although there is a bear, vintage guitars, shoe-whitening, bag ladies, japanese S&M (as opposed to common old garden S&M) and some nano-whatsits.
Oh yes.  I am, in the very [...]

Effortless chocolate

Please read this post with an optimum pendulum-based head rotation around the horizontal plane of 135 degrees. Oscillating, mostly shipping forecast.  Preferably mangling your consonants as well.  Cup of earl grey optional, but it must be raining outside.  Or you could be drinking hot lemon and waxing nostalgic in your head about the kinds of [...]

Orc-hestral downloads in the dark

I tried to be disciplined last night.  After my run home, eating, activity displacement websites A through E and only some minor faffage I sat down with Scrivener to show it who’s the daddy.  I even stopped listening to the football broadcast and listened to opera instead (anxious italian shouting seems to suit my writing [...]