Profile Editor. Writer. 9-5er. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Apodis Publishing Fusion Fragment cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Goodbye, Darwin Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format The Short Stuff "Learning Magic From Mint" - published May 2007 in Atomjack "Between Eternities" - published October 2005 at Speculative.ca "Smoke and Mirrors" - published June 2005 in Byzarium Submissions Log Total Subs: 25 Acceptances: 3 Rejections: 17 Withdrawals: 3 Subs Out: 2 Quality Blogs Scalzi's Whatever Dave's Blogography Bookslut The Struggling Writer SF Signal the0phrastus Paperback Writer Scribe's Writing Desk Nathan Bransford Lyons Literary LLC The World in the Satin Bag Book In The Oven The Word Perhaps We Learned Something... Words, etc. Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 Et Cetera Cavan @ Last.fm Cavan @ LibraryThing Feeds Atom Feed RSS Feed	Thursday, May 25, 2006 - Playing Up the Ordinary I've started reading Martin Amis' Money, which was given to me for Christmas, so I figured it was about time to get started on it. Anyway, I'm only ten pages in (gotta hit the sack since I work early in the mornings), and already Amis, who did such an exquisite job of turning the everyday world into a knot by telling everything in reverse in his amazingly original novel Time's Arrow, has done a very simple thing in such a terrific way that I feel I have to mention it. This is the kind of thing, I think, that can really elevate a writer. Instead of having his character simply take out a cigarette and be done with it, Amis writes the following: "Yeah," I said, and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette. Great characterization here, in this one simple action. Not only do you get that the guy's a chain-smoker and the great narrative voice, but there's also a little bit of humour there. Anyway, maybe I'm just getting overexcited about the little things here but, well, writing's all about sweating the small stuff. Cavan blogged at 11:00 PM | 0 comments	Progress Zilch! 0/0 Listening A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed" My Music Reading Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney My Library Watching Black Book: B Sweet and Lowdown: C Breakfast on Pluto: B Wishlist Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart