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 [...]
I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while.
First, NaNoWriMo. Some days, I didn’t have enough words to write a letter, much less a blog entry. When I did, I rather wrote a letter. The good news is that I got my words done on a steady pace, and I’ll get the 50K by the end [...]
This has been a long and exhausting week and miraculously, I got a lot of writing done, and the amount of NaNo planning that makes it possible to get to actual outlining soon. Today, NaNo thing surprised me too, because it seems that the novel I started pondering on as “light, funny and easy to [...]
Sooo.
It’s all because of the flu, I swear, that I haven’t written a thing for Vega and am generally a yelling freak (who can’t really yell because of the sore throat but the attempts are brave).
Yesterday, I translated The Final Turn to Latvian and realized why I have a run-on sentence problem: Latvians simply tend [...]
I am surprised and delighted how stuff from my childhood… or, sometimes, the present-that-feels-like-childhood seeps into the story, rendering it richer, at least for me.
Today, it was heather, one of my favorite wild flowers, and heatherbell honey my father recently brought for kids – it is very dark, rich brown and tastes more bitter than [...]