If my novel was a Beatles playlist, running order would be She Said She Said; Got To Get You Into My Life; For No One; Tomorrow Never Knows.
— Rhian Bowley (@RhianBowley) April 29, 2014
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“…but listen to the colour of your dreams”
Bank Holiday shelfie & the Boreanaz Equation
Bank Holiday weekend’s RULE. Enough time to write loads & still mess around doodling & watching Bones.
Deal is: for every 3k, I get 45 minutes of Boreanaz. Turns out rewards like this work better than ‘3k and then you don’t have to write any more’, to which my me would reply ‘But I’m already not writing! Let’s just stay here doing that!’.
Here’s my non-Boreanaz view, the books in reach of my desk. The ones to remind me how to write when I forget.
Urgently
Found this bright street art one rainy morning during my recent Portugese writing retreat.
Turns out I need to expand my knowledge of Portugese poets. The little I’ve since read of Andrade’s work is gorgeous.
URGENTLY
It’s urgent — love.
It’s urgent — a boat upon the sea.
It’s urgent to destroy certain words,
hate, solitude, and cruelty,
some moanings,
many swords.
It’s urgent to invent a joyfulness,
multiply kisses and cornfields,
discover roses and rivers
and glistening mornings — it’s urgent.
Silence and an impure light fall upon
our shoulders till they ache.
It’s urgent — love, it’s urgent
to endure.
(translation by Alexis Levitin, found gratefully on movingpoems.com)
Recommended resources for writing SF/F? (Mslexia Guest Blog)
Since my last post, some of you have asked for links to useful blogs about writing fantasy/science fiction. Unfortunately, this has made me realise that most of what I read when I started writing is out of date now – no longer updated, or my bookmarks lost from when I changed laptops. Darn.
Recently I’ve been keeping my head down and writing, trying to limit my online reading til this novel is done, so I don’t have as much fresh content to recommend as I’d like. I’ve listed here a few links to some classics and content I still think is relevant, but I’m really writing this to ask what you read.
Which sites or books do you find useful when you’re stuck for what to write, or how to write it? Was there a genre-specific resource that helped when you were starting out?
Or, do you just use the same writing advice non-genre writers would? Is anything extra needed?
Read the full article (including ace Ray Bradbury video and a picture of a Cat Wizard) here.
