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Michael Barnes's avatar

You had me at chicken curry for breakfast.

Potato Shaped Man's avatar

I do this thing where I pull out stuff I wrote 10-15 years ago and read it. And quietly put it away. It annoys me, because I was going through some shit then after a break up and my emotional writing was so much better. I guess you really do need to suffer for the art, or something. Also, I think I have matured as a writer a bit, or at least as a human, as a lot of my characters were very angry men back then, and now, I am more likely to just roll a dice to determine someone's gender if it is at all prescient to the story.

What I write and how I write has changed as well. I used to write about events, and people. Now I write about people, in events.

Elana Mitchell's avatar

"I used to write about events, and people. Now I write about people, in events."

That is quite a brilliant and evocative way to illustrate the way your writing has evolved. Bravo sir.

John Birmingham's avatar

Yeah, it is.

Whistling in the Dark - aka Ty's avatar

Interesting.

I've never cut out a passage of text to reuse in something else. Also, not a big fan of leftovers either, much to my wife's eternal disappointment.

Peter Tapsell's avatar

curry for breakfast is one of life’s underrated pleasures. Good hangover cure, too.

Tweeky's avatar

I love having chicken curry for launch, Birmo, especially if it come with some garlic naan-bread:).

As for WW3.4 do you have a tentative publication date?

John Birmingham's avatar

Imma try to get it out by the end of July

Tweeky's avatar

That's great progress and no doubt no lengthy delays due to construction issues.