S.P. Wayne's Blog: STUFF IS HAPPENING, page 9

"when I was a childI was a squirrel a bluejay a foxand spoke with them in their tonguesclimbed..."

“when I was a child

I was a squirrel a bluejay a fox

and spoke with them in their tongues

climbed their trees dug their dens

and knew the taste

of every grass and stone

the meaning of the sun

the message of the night”

- The Message of the Rain by Norman H. Russell (via wellconstructedsentences)

toluenesister:(commission info)man, so.everyone should give...

toluenesister:

(commission info)

man, so.

everyone should give this person money.

how do you pick the poetry bits at the beginning of the books? c: are they prompts?

They’re definitely not prompts, but I do usually have them picked out well before the book is finished.

I knew I wanted that line from Crush at the start of Winter Wolf before I had a title or character names or anything, because Crush has an amazing sense of longing and panic that is, to me, very Axton…and I’ve thought that line was very werewolf-y.

I knew City Wolf was going to have a Shane Koyczan quote because he writes about love at a very different stage than Siken, and in a very different way, which I thought was right for a very different book (that’s at a very different relationship stage). I was about halfway through before I knew it was going to be from Apology. Not until the very end did I narrow it down exactly. And then—I’ve mentioned this elsewhere—I cut it to size so it would emotionally fit like I wanted it to. But it’s also a set of lines that have been near to my heart for years.

I can’t tell you what kicks off book 3 because that would be setting the stage for you, wouldn’t it. Yes, yes it would.

And the Neruda just happens because Neruda and what’s the point of making the poet jock Chilean if he isn’t really into it?

PS: you guys really do send me the best e mails and the occasional zinger question. I sometimes forget to check my tumblr’s ask box, so this has been sitting here for…a week? I STILL LOVE YOU, THOUGH, ANON.

FREE YOURSELF FROM THE TYRANNY OF NAVIGATING YOUR TABLET WITH...

FREE YOURSELF FROM THE TYRANNY OF NAVIGATING YOUR TABLET WITH YOUR MERE FINGERS! what are you, some sort of plebeian?

Make your sweet self a DIY stylus, so that you, too, may show the world how you don’t know how to draw anymore.

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Capacitive-Stylus/

http://lifehacker.com/5550029/diy-touch+screen-stylus-new-and-improved

you can do it, baby. i believe in you.

PS: most dish sponges are sufficiently conductive so you can sub those in for the electronic foam in the second link.

linhfish:it’s still February so it’s not too late to post...

linhfish:

it’s still February so it’s not too late to post this!

here is a short comic about the troubles of being a werewolf on Valentine’s Day

#werewolfproblems

I have fun each time I lampshade this.

Axton can, he just…prefers not to, mostly. Exceptions are made for picnics.

But everyone drinks all the coffee all the time, okay? It’s how like alcoholic writers have someone take a shot every other page. If I ever direct a movie there’s going to be a latte in frame each time certain characters are on screen and people will be like, “ridiculous,” and Imma be like, “DELIBERATE ARTISTIC CHOICE.”

Incidentally, no one should ever give me enough money to direct a movie.

"Like Fur Rubbed With Mint Toothpaste" (A Fabulously Feral Perfume You've Got To Smell To Believe)

"Like Fur Rubbed With Mint Toothpaste" (A Fabulously Feral Perfume You've Got To Smell To Believe):

If anyone wants to buy me something ridiculous and high end, feel free to give me this fancy perfume that apparently smells like flowers plus rotting dead things, okay?

Traditionally I try to ignore author drama because I find it...

Traditionally I try to ignore author drama because I find it intensely declasse as well as exhausting, but, like, come on, people.

Someone doesn’t like your book so you call them a troll and a “black baboon”? That is

1. mad racist and

2. super dated

and this kind of thing really should be unacceptable by now. Criticism sucks and readers are brutal, but that no reason to not at least act professionally and also, just

like

whaaat?

So I thought some people should know.

Guys, I made a stylus for my ipad and it’s a whole new...

Guys, I made a stylus for my ipad and it’s a whole new fucking world, man.

I drew a Polaroid of a pug in sunglasses because I am drunk on freedom.

i’m dyingi may actually and factually die from laughing...

i’m dying

i may actually and factually die from laughing so hard

lzbth:swag won’t pay the bills but apparently neither will your degreeswag has probably paid...

lzbth:

swag won’t pay the bills but apparently neither will your degree

swag has probably paid more of my bills than my degree.

#friendsdon’tletfriendsmajorinpsychology