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You can’t make this stuff up.
So, you’re just coming to terms with fear of buttons, when another potential phobia rears its terrifying head. Anatidaephobia. The fear of being watched by a duck. My lovely fan, Eliza Wimperis, has alerted me to this word/concept/life-threatening mental illness, and I can’t quite get it out of my head. Why a duck? as the [...]
Paranoid thought bubbles.
New draft, new set of comments. I expect they’ll go something like this: Not 100% sure the whole God-thing is working. Four decent books out of five really isn’t bad going at all. Oh. Now that you explain it, it makes sense. On consideration, maybe the last draft was better. Nevermind. We’ll rerelease How I [...]
You know how you felt about that crazy boyfriend you once lived with? That’s how I feel about my book.
One day he’s gorgeous. Brings me coffee in bed. Reads Raymond Chandler out loud while I drink my coffee. Says I’m beautiful when I look like a walnut with legs. And means it. Then the next minute he’s flirting with some underage bimbo and saying he’d like to move to Moscow. If my book were [...]
Are we there yet?
It’s a big moment here at Rosoff acres. I’ve just printed out the latest draft of There Is No Dog, and I’m hoping against hope that this one actually works. But I won’t know until I read it. If you’re not a writer, that probably sounds strange. How can I not know whether it works [...]
The New Character
The new character is coming along nicely. He’s a little penguiny creature, with a slightly anteaterish nose and an insatiable appetite. In my head, he’s not entirely unlike Edward Gorey’s Doubtful Guest, perhaps crossed with a little bit of hairy lurcher. Only I always imagined The Doubtful Guest as having quite a strong and somewhat [...]
Riding and Writing, Part, um, 162.
OK — all of you who don’t get the whole horse thing, look away now. The rest of you may be familiar with my opinions on writing and riding and the parallels to be found therein. I’ve blathered on before about ‘throughness’ – a dressage term that describes the perfect communication of intent between rider [...]
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