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What happens next?

26/03/2010 / Ellie

Someone asked me the other day why I write. Easy. I write because I don’t know how not to.

I’ve been a storyteller all my life. Since I could hold a pen, and make marks on paper that weren’t just copying something off the blackboard. It’s as natural to me as breathing.

As time went on, the stories got longer, more complex. I’d get an idea and just run with it, to see where it took me. When I was 14, one of those ideas took me on a wild, 260-page adventure cranked out on an old Adler portable typewriter (forever remembered as the Tripewriter) in one-and-a-half linespacing. I can still smell the carbon paper. Continue reading

Father, forgive me…

03/03/2010 / Ellie

…for I have sinned.

I’ve never read George RR Martin.

Don’t ask me why, because I really couldn’t say. I adore the title of the series “A Song of Ice and Fire”. I’ve just never found myself motivated to pick up one of his books. Actually, tell a lie, I did pick up a copy of “A Game of Thrones” in Waterstone’s once but put it down again before I got to the till.

Before the fantasy establishment mob besieges Cooper Towers with pitchforks and blazing torches, ready to burn the heretic, let me just say that I am remedying this right this instant. Since HBO has green-lighted a mini-series based on A Game of Thrones, starring the scrummy Sean Bean, no less, my interest has been piqued.

Piqued enough to go and buy the book. Gawd knows when I’ll find time to read it, since I’m supposed to be writing one of my own here, but I’ll try. Really I will. Now put those pitchforks down before someone gets hurt.