Kendare Blake's Blog, page 15

It Can't Rain All the Time (Sleepwalk Giveaway Ends in Four Days)

The quote is courtesy of my brother. And also courtesy of the tool who is trying to remake The Crow. You shouldn't remake The Crow. Not that it wouldn't be cool. Not that it wouldn't be good. It has the potential to be both of those things. But the original was ALREADY both of those things, and Brandon Lee DIED during it, so just fricken step off.

The Goodreads Giveaway of Sleepwalk Society ends in four days. Please do enter. I'll send you a copy of the novel. I'll sign it. I'll thank you prof...

It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may just be the Antichrist. (Contracts! WIP blues!)

Has Val Kilmer ever been more appealing than in Tombstone, playing that devilishly charming lunger, Doc Holliday? No. He never has been. The quote above is from the scene where Big Nose Kate is trying to ply him with sex and cigarettes when most of his lung tissue is gone. Eh. Whatever works.

Contracts arrived in the mail yesterday!!! I think I'll do that authorly thing and take a photo while I sign them. Probably doing some gay rendition of Arthur Fonzerelli. "Contracts, EY! Now sit on it." M...

We Can't Stop Here. This is Bat Country. (Book Trailer! Interview!)

I love Fear and Loathing as much as the next guy, but not as much as my brother. He needs to stop channeling Hunter S. Thompson before he arranges to have his remains blasted out of a cannon.

I'm going to finish Secret Project S within the next two weeks. It's sort of scary and sad, because I love this book. Sure, there are moments when I work myself to death on it and we become like a couple who spends too much time together. But for the most part, I love this book. Dying goddesses and epic r...

A Guide to Love Scenes, or It was because I was inverted.

Okay, so I just finished writing one of those blasted love scenes in Secret Project S. It just about wrung my brain dry, and it got me to thinking about the writing of a love scene. Many, many of them have been written, in many, many books over the years, with varying degrees of effectiveness. I do not profess to be an expert. However, there are certain things in a love scene that I simply refuse to do. So here's my short guide of do's and don'ts.

The first one is tied to my movie quote...

Is this some weird kind of new therapy? (Bret Easton Ellis Reading!)

I probably got that quote slightly wrong. But it's from What About Bob? a fantastically funny movie and probably my favorite Richard Dreyfuss roll EVER. For those of you who have not seen it, do. It is a delightful farce about mental illness, and Dreyfuss channels his inner Donald Duck on a scale never before seen.

Work continued on Secret Project S, but who the hell gives a crap about that? Last night was the Ellis reading! I will admit to being completely starstruck. Though I am now quite ce...

I no longer know who I am and I feel like the ghost of a total stranger.

The quote for the day was a three-way tie between "Umm, Gangbang 101, Freebasing Tutorial and Oral Sex Workshop" and "I met a Dutch TV actress and we drank absinthe at a bar called Absinthe." These are, of course, from The Rules of Attraction, and I am using a Bret Easton Ellis-related quote because I am only hours away from going to a Bret Easton Ellis reading!

Holy cow. I'm tired, and it's been a long day, and I now drive a 1991 Dodge POS that I have named affectionately, "Gonzo", but I stil...

Your brain presses against your skull and it feels likethis!

That's one of John Travolta's lines from Broken Arrow, right when he's crushing Christian Slater's skull. He delivers it with such wacky glee that it always makes me giggle, even if the rest of the movie's dialogue doesn't hold up to repeat viewings. It was I think the first time he played his now famous and unwanted "John Travolta is the cold, charismatic bad guy" character. He should stop it now.

Today was a day of re-writing. And not on editor's orders either. No, it was a re-write of an ea...

Soft as I am, I wouldn't last a week in a Central American war.

Okay that isn't from a movie. But it is from an awesome show, and if anyone knows what that show is, they will become a hero in my eyes. No one's going to know what it is. I should just resign myself to that now.

Today I wrote a very respectable whole chapter of Secret Project S. And it was a chapter that I started yesterday, crappily, so I had to erase a few hundred words and start over. When did that happen? When did my first outings become so invariably crappy? Because I know when I read ov...

I'm the most dangerous man in this prison. You know why? Because I control the underwear.

The quote today is from American History X. If you haven't seen it, then do. It's the only thing that makes the existence of Edward Furlong worth the trouble.

Anyhoodle, REVISIONS! Complete! Anna Dressed in Blood has now officially undergone the first round of editorial revisions. It took about five days of solid work, but it came together pretty well I think. I'm going to let it rest a few days, then read it through again, make sure the edges are smooth, and send it back to NYC. Then we'll s...

Is that a raincoat?

Why yes it is, Paul.

The movie quote today is courtesy of Dylan, who came running at me yesterday buck naked but for a pair of socks, screaming and hacking at the air. I was extremely put off for several seconds before I realized he was doing the scene from American Psycho.

The work on revisions finally hit full swing yesterday. I think it's going well. I read some of the major changes out loud to Dylan and he seemed to like them. Usually a good sign. It's been surprisingly easy to slide back ...