Tag Archive: China Miéville

Nov 30

What I’ve Learned About Writing This Year.

With this year draw­ing to a close there are many things I’ve done in the past year that I’m proud of, but there are oth­ers that I need to get done still. I’ve writ­ten another book. My sec­ond. I feel like I’ve accom­plished some­thing by fin­ish­ing two book and I’ve learned more about the writ­ing process …

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Oct 26

On The Road With My Darker Self.

It crawls in, per­me­at­ing and grab­bing hold of your insides. Its claws wait­ing for the chance to spring out, wait­ing for the day you’re ready. This is what it feels like, at least to me, when a dark story pops into my brain. I know these dark sto­ries bet­ter than the other ones, the dark ones …

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Oct 22

Torturing My Characters, And Stuff.

I’ve been read­ing a lot of darker stuff lately. Not so much hor­ror as things that are weird or sad. This started a few months ago when I read Embassy­town by China Mieville and has con­tin­ued to the book I’m read­ing now, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. I’ve always had thing for darker stuff, those that …

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Jun 07

A fish swam through Embassytown and Darujhistan.

I swal­lowed a large fish recently. I took it down whole. I wasn’t ready for the way it changed my writ­ing. We’ve all heard fish sto­ries. We all know about peo­ple who have caught giant fish, but there’s no evi­dence. Here’s a fish story for ya. I was swim­ming with the sharks the other day and …

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