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Monthly Archives: July 2009

In Which Our Narrator Proves He Still Lives

“To live in contact with those I love, with the beauties of nature, with a quantity of books and music, and to have, within easy distance, a French theater.” — Marcel Proust, age 13, in answer to the question, “What is your idea of earthly happiness?” And a quote from Samuel R Delany’s About Writing: [...]

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-07-26

this story is punching me in the face. have started it four times since this morning. facepunch 4: facepunch facepunches the russian machine # remedy: listening to led zeppelin I-IV and ignoring my sleep debt. it is not, as they say, helping yet. # i delude myself: / new followers truly care / and aren’t [...]

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-07-19

@themattlondon facepunch 2: the journey home. (congrats on the story.) in reply to themattlondon # spitballing with flatmates. new revelation changes everything about the story i spent this weekend writing. starting over. another busy week # going to talk with robert crais a bit. q&a #clarion # crits done; story undone. o sleep anyway probably [...]

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-07-12

@hollyblack we miss you too. also: please to mail extra ducks at earliest convenience. or we might have to eat the professor. in reply to hollyblack # o crinkle brain: the stories. to make them please now please. # @hollyblack we just today finished all that lasagna. so. much. ricotta. in reply to hollyblack # [...]

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-07-05

o you unmerciful lack of sleep. you’re back. #clarion # The other people in the ucsd cafeteria: one hundred million high school soccer camps. # Laphroaig scotch is the best. So smooth. So peaty. Recommended and obtained by the peerless @hollyblack. # Walking through ucsd. I just saw six rabbits. # some day i will [...]