Feb 18
Fiction Can’t Compete…
Posted: under Life beyond writing, the writing life.
Tags: characters, Life beyond writing, progress report, the writing life February 18th, 2010
I was actually making progress on Book Three today when a friend emailed to tell me that a plane had flown into a building that I drive past regularly, in Austin Texas. I tried to stay glued to Arvid (who had informed me plaintively that I hadn’t provided any food for him and during his earlier misfortunes he’d been starved for two days…) and did manage to offer some coarse-ground meal (spelt, I think), onions, and raw redroots, but reality trumped the fiction writing. Read the rest of this entry »