Friday, March 13, 2009

digging in the dirt

I'm waist deep in my old journals now, and three things are clear: 1. I was a little dark. (Maybe more than a little.) 2. I spent way too much time in my head. 3. I should've learned to play the guitar, or dated a guy who played the guitar, so I could write incredibly […]

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Friday, March 13, 2009

icarus was not failing as he fell

Photo: Eddie Major "Icarus Fall" <www.eddiemajor.com>      Failing and Flying  Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody  said it would never work. That she was  old enough to know better. But […]

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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Meet the Caster Girls

You may have already read this on the BC blog, but in case you didn't, it's too good to miss… It's a lot easier to write when you know who you're writing for. Beautiful Creatures was written over three months for a few particular teens - Casters & Outcasters - who demanded pages at the end of every […]

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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in the stacks

I started unearthing them. Stacks and stacks of my notebooks and journals. They were in a huge plastic tub, covered in dust. These are the books I carried everywhere & the stray pages I wrote on when I was without them. At least the first stack.  Stay tuned and maybe I'll show you what's inside.

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

if you think you don't have time to write

Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in the basement of the UCLA library, on a typewriter that cost a dime a half hour, during his lunch breaks. In the end it cost him $9.80 to write the first draft of one of the greatest novels ever written. Bradbury was a fantasy/ sci-fi writer before the genre was […]

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