Joanne Anderton

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  4. Character guilt — 10 comments
  5. Debris is ALIVE! — 10 comments

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Nov 29

Procrastinating…

Tonight I appear to be procrastinating by doing stomach crunches and push-ups while listening to Black Sabbath. Yeah, I’d also like to know who I am and what I’ve done with me… Anyone got any less energetic procrastinating tools they can recommend?

Nov 25

It creeps like a creeping thing until it spreads its wings

Debris is stalking me again. It is almost revision time. I have started dreaming about it. I find myself writing new scenes to music in the car. I know the signs. My gorgeous beta-readers have given me juicy, chewy, yummilicious notes to work with. I have printed these, I have scanned them. My fingers itch …

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Nov 24

Website tinkering

I’ve been playing around with the website a little. We have a new theme going – something a bit more organised and less depressing. I can be dark, but peoples, I’m also shiny with butterflies. Sometimes. Anyhoo I’ve added a Free Fiction page with a short story for your enjoyment. And that’s IT for now. …

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Nov 23

Reality is harder than fiction

At least I find it harder to write. Why is that? I have recently written a short auto-biographical piece, and in the process discovered just how much I prefer to write about imaginary characters. So I started wondering what the difference could be. I don’t think it’s as simple as ‘imaginary characters do what you …

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Nov 22

Out of sorts

I have been out of sorts for the past week. Not quite under the weather, but worse than just okay. Definitely out of sorts. Out of sortsiness manifests itself as an inability to sleep during the usual sleeping hours. It also tends to produce trouble typing, trouble talking, and real difficulty concentrating on anything. I …

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