Well, it’s been some time since I’ve visited this all-but-defunct blog, despite gentle encouragement from C.C. However, I was inspired to add a new page because of my excitement leading up to the launch of Deadly Beautiful on November 5th. And in particular the poem I found on the ISBN website, where the wordstorm of common terms produced almost exclusively animals. (It’s formatting disappeared in cut and paste, so I have attempted to link with the original page instead.) I once read a David Lodge literary satire in which a novelist acquired a bad case of writer’s block when it was pointed out that the most frequently used term in his work was the word ‘greasy’. Glad I escaped a similar fate.
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