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Joanne Anderton
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Sep 03
Life gets in the way
I say that too often for my own liking, but sometimes I guess you simply can’t control it. Good news is new kitchen finally looks like one! Not finished, but I have an oven and a dishwasher that work, and I can’t tell you all how good that is! Bad news is still too uncertain …
Aug 26
Moments, you know the kind
I have been a bad blog-keeper-upper/website-updater, haven’t I. What can I use as my excuse? Growing another year older? Kitchen renovations and the running around after plumbers, electricians, builders, and delivery people this brings with it? How about lying face-down in the revision muck? Yes, that will do nicely. Today, I had a moment. One …
Aug 02
Writing and the E word. Exercise.
I remember attending a panel at a con a few years ago where an author (really wish I remember who it was…) spoke about how important exercise is in the writing life. Keeping your body in shape as you do your mind. Something like that. When my back broke down and I couldn’t sit in …
Jul 29
Just because an academic is staring out the window, doesn’t mean he isn’t working.
This is something my father (an academic) told me a very long time ago. It resonates with the writer too. Except in my case it’s closer to: ‘Just because a writer is lying in a hot bath on a cold winter night, doesn’t mean she isn’t revising.’ Sometimes that nice, comfortable, long bath is just …
Jul 27
Impressions
Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik: a perfect example of why I can’t write reviews. Because ‘OMG I love Temeraire and I want a dragon and he would be my friend and Laurence is funny and I love Temeraire!’ Told you. The Dark Knight: I thought that with all the hype Heath’s performance would be …
