Writing and reading
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lizwilliamsAnother short story knocked on the head: I have finished DUSKING...I just made it in under the wire to the Logorrhea antho last week, apologies to Mr Klima for cutting it so fine. DUSKING is a nasty little tale that wrote itself and comported itself commendably neatly with regard to its conclusion, unlike the anthology story, which was a pain in the arse to conclude and I am still not satisfied with it.
It's nice to have a list of ideas to work through. Next up is LEUCROTTA, about arranged hyaena marriage, and tonight I need to re-draw a shortlist of where to send stuff.
Where does one get one's ideas from? I get rather a lot of mine from the folklore of the British Isles: read last night, an account of a 17th century incident in which someone rented a room to a cunning man, like you do, and saw a large black cat sitting on a pail on the barnyard. 'I didn't know we had a cat,' he remarked to his father, who replied, no doubt darkly, 'That be no cat, it's one of they Things.'
I am also about to start a non-fiction book entitled AFTER THE ICE, which came highly recommended by Sue Thomason and thus something in which I have complete trust. It's by Steven Mithen, and concerns global human history 20,000 - 5,000 BC.
It's nice to have a list of ideas to work through. Next up is LEUCROTTA, about arranged hyaena marriage, and tonight I need to re-draw a shortlist of where to send stuff.
Where does one get one's ideas from? I get rather a lot of mine from the folklore of the British Isles: read last night, an account of a 17th century incident in which someone rented a room to a cunning man, like you do, and saw a large black cat sitting on a pail on the barnyard. 'I didn't know we had a cat,' he remarked to his father, who replied, no doubt darkly, 'That be no cat, it's one of they Things.'
I am also about to start a non-fiction book entitled AFTER THE ICE, which came highly recommended by Sue Thomason and thus something in which I have complete trust. It's by Steven Mithen, and concerns global human history 20,000 - 5,000 BC.
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:18 pm (UTC)I'm on a mission to employ some of the little-used mythological creatures. I approve.
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:23 pm (UTC)'Listen, bitch,' the deer said. 'We're from the Little-used Mythological Creatures Union, awright, and we demand equality!'
Then they started chanting 'What do we want? EQUAL REPRSENTATION! When do we want it? NOW!'
No choice, really, unless I'm to get duffed up by a cockatrice or something.
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:51 pm (UTC)We had words.
Foolish of them to put themselves in my hands, of course.
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:54 pm (UTC)Bastards.
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Date: 2006-10-01 03:55 pm (UTC)Yeah. Bitch bitch. You've got venom that can crawl of a sword. Get over it.
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Date: 2006-10-02 08:46 am (UTC)I have some experience of amateur archaeology - used to spend my summers between university years digging on a hill fort in Gloucestershire (Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman). My friend D is much more versed in this kind of thing, however, as her former husband was a site director at Cadbury and she did a lot of the site illustrations. So I'm going to recommend the book to her, as well, and see what she thinks.
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Date: 2006-10-02 11:33 am (UTC)Next book is PRECIOUS DRAGON, out next year.
After the Ice
Date: 2006-10-02 08:11 am (UTC)Sarah S
Re: After the Ice
Date: 2006-10-02 08:46 am (UTC)