I have eight different drafts of my novel Glorious . With each draft I cut sentences, paragraphs and entire chapters. When it was finally acquired by Akashic Books - the editors had at it and after some soul-searching we all agreed that the ending needed to be re-worked. And now I have a ending that links perfectly with the opening. Funny, how these things work themselves out. In any case, I wanted...
Go away. Why won't you get gone? How come you are still here? Did somebody drop you on your head, just now, and you're too disoriented to find your way down a hill? Are you just insane? Why won't you go, when somebody asks you so politely? Oh, I see, you came here for something, and you won't up and go until I up and give it to you. And that something would have to be of great value, yes? Well, my...
NewsQuips? They’re a sort of news “speed round”, consisting of news headlines that need to be brought up because they’re marginally interesting on some level (sometimes you have to squeeze your brain cheeks really hard to detect the interest), or because of their abject stupidity (think CBC headlines), or because they are just ripe for a sound mocking (think CBC), but they...