Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Comma, "V" Drink, and Neil Gaiman Doing it Right

Firstly, one of my dear friends today made mention of my liberal use of the humble comma. Looking back on some of the pieces I have written, it became obvious that this was dominant in the shorter, snappier pieces. I think this has to do mainly with wanting to keep full sentence breaks to a minimum, in order to highlight the quick, snappy pace of them. But I digress...


I really love V drink. It has the amazing capacity to mess with ones head. For example, I can drink it, then stay awake for quite some time feeling alert, or I can promptly fall asleep. How odd.


Lastly for this evening (I don't really have much to write, although I have done a bit more work on The Witching Hour, I want to post up the next bit, instead of just one segment) Neil Gaiman is pretty much finished his book called "The Graveyard Book", which I am looking fowards to immensly. Have a look in the collection of short stories called "Dark Alchemy", the first story is one of the chapters of the book.


I lied, the last thing of note is that I heard back from the talented Lawrence Yang, of SuckAtLife, and I have the go-ahead to write a few bits and pieces inspired by his work. Which is awesome (his work, that is). If you ignored me the other day when I told you to go and see his stuff, then here is one of the sample pieces from his site (permission given to advertise for him!):


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