Today’s been a good day. A very good day. For my writerly work, I mean. I’ve been skipping around certain pretty enormous shifts I had to make to my manuscript, and when I woke up this morning, I knew that today was the day. And that I didn’t want to stop until the job was …
Is it any wonder so many of us writer-types who sit behind a keyboard most of the day are at risk of becoming a little… erm… husky? For a start, there’s the “sit behind a keyboard most of the day” part of the job. My fingers run a goddamned marathon between 9 and 5. Who …
Yes – that is a real spoon. And, no – it’s not decorative, I actually use it. I bought it from a craftsman in a market in a remote town in the mountains of far-eastern Turkey when I was over there working as an archaeologist. You should have seen me trying to get it on …