miscellany
reading pile, october 2008
I am mostly in a fog of edits and adjustments on the novel, trying to get it in the best shape possible before it goes off to a handful of very lovely beta readers
musings
i like creeds
This is my horoscope, courtesy of the brilliant Rob Brezsny: CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your creed for the last three months of 2008 comes from Nikos Kazantzakis: “By believing passionately in something that still
writing
on editing
I’ve been editing-o-rama this week, and it’s going much more smoothly than I had expected. I cut out a lot more without even having to think about it so the draft is hovering around
writing
done, sort of.
Well, it took almost two years but I have reached the end of the novel. Not that the end is the end, this is what happens when you write things non-linearly. The last bit
writing
handwritten blog post 1.0
(I am going to do handwritten blogs from time to time. Because I think it’s kind of fun and I like the smell of Sharpie.)
musings
awaiting autumn
I have been in a sort of cocoon of Lapsang Souchong tea and writing lately, alternately accompanied by Philip Glass on solo piano and Zoe Keating on multi-layered cello. Now I’ve moved on to