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An update: it seems that the student (with the irrelevant questions) was forced to do the presentation on me as a part of an obligatory assignment. Hence, it’s not her fault, but the fault of [...]
Sometimes, when I (the average unaccomplished, unripe and only moderately successful person) have big dreams, I stop yourself and say, now, dear, you look like a fool right now. You have such big hopes and goals and you reach for the stars, but in the end you might very well die still being average. Statistically, [...]
There’s a funny thing about “writing rules”. It says, “here’s a rule, don’t break it unless you are…” and inserts a name of some great author (Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow or just about any other notable author there is or ever was). In my opinion, it’s bullshit.
I don’t argue that there are some [...]
Yesterday, I was sitting with a friend, talking about various things (mostly gay sex…it’s research, all right? Being a writer has some perks), and I mentioned the hunter/farmer theory.
„And then there are the gatherers,” he said.
„Wha?”
„The gatherers. There were entire societies made of them, people gathering things, both the ones they could use right now, [...]
This is moderately like being able to tell whether somebody is gay, or having uncomfortable strings, or really really needing to fart or being dead scared while trying to appear nonchalant. The first: yay/haha, I’m can tell! The second: OMG, I wonder what others are able to tell about me?
I am still not 100% sure [...]
Here, I wondered about who my first future reader will be.
Today, it dawned on me who my “last” future reader will be; the opposite end of the spectrum: the person who reads one book a year, or maybe one book in his (or her) whole life, barring high school when you can’t really get around [...]
Yesterday, I did a quick math about how much would I be able to accomplish if I worked slowly/fast/very fast over several years, played with my speed and varied the planning, writing and editing lengths and frequency to figure out how would I accomplish more without burning out. As a result, I got two years [...]
The job I’m doing right now with Virgin is clearly experimental, switching between different perceptions of time, focusing on nuances instead of the obvious, and going slow, having no major stuff happening (yet). This is probably what could be named “literary fiction” if I wrote better, or “high literature” in Latvian (actually, Latvians have trouble [...]
That’s it. The way I see it, the whole book business is going full-speed at a direction nobody really knows much about. That’s scary, of course, but that’s the way progress always has been. Not only scary, but hard to figure out and hard to reason with, and impossible to stop. The Pandora’s box is [...]
Do you have a blog? If you do, probably you’d be interested in a casual cross-blogging thing.
The gig is this: sometime in February, I do a guest post in your blog, and you do a blog post in mine.
Why? Well, because it’s fun, and we would both benefit from that.
What can I offer? A guest [...]