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Second book syndrome
Filed under: Advice for writers,articles,ask an author,bloggery,growing up,how I write,Q&A — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 6:50 pm
Lee Weatherly asked how second book syndrome affected me:
"By 'second book syndrome' I'm talking about the difficulties that come with writing your first commissioned title – usually with your first book, you write it on your own time, there's no real pressure, etc – then with the second book, suddenly you have a deadline and a publisher's expectations. What was once just your passion is now your job, with all the stress that can entail; how do you make the shift? Also, if your first book does very well or sells for a lot of money, that can (perversely) just make the second book far harder to write."
Rhiannon Lassiter replies:
When I was 19 I was offered a two book contract on the basis of one book part written and one yet to be decided. Second book syndrome kicked in while I was still at university and still very unsure of my own ideas. I suggested a second book in the same series, a sequel to my first, or rather the middle book of a possible trilogy. It wasn't my aim was to push the company into contracting me for a third. Although I had a number of new ideas I also wanted to continue the story I'd started with the characters of my first novel. Ultimately what decided the issue was that the first novel was selling well and the publishing company seemed keen to continue with more. They published the whole trilogy, which continues to sell well to this day.
However, in retrospect, I made the wrong decision about that second book. If I hadn't been working on my first degree at the time and struggling with balancing academia and creative writing; or if I'd been more commercially minded, or thought more towards future development – I would have decided differently.
Most professional writers come to writing as their second career. They have some experience in the job market already. They've had a different career path and made time for their writing on the side, squeezing their evenings and weekends until they had something they could sell and make enough money to afford to write part time or full time.
I started writing full time straight out of university. I was working on my trilogy and was feeling positive about more contracts ahead. But once my only job was to write and I'd locked myself into this particular idea I started to notice an artistic issue with what I was writing. I was having so many ideas for so many new novels and new ways to write but in this particular trilogy I needed to stay true to the style and concept of the original book.
By the time I started writing my fourth novel I felt I ought have been much more developed as a creative artist than I was. The novel I wrote then was at a complete and wild variance to my previous work. My ideas have always spanned a wide range of genres and as my writing career has developed I've had published books across a range about half as wide. I'm lucky that I've been able to sell YA and junior, fantasy, SF and contemporary fiction ideas. But I should have started earlier.
Several years later a friend of mine published her first novel and told me she'd been offered another contract and the option of writing a sequel to her first book. I advised her against it. I suggested she write something completely different in another genre to avoid boxing herself in too soon. That's what she did, and after three more successful novels returned to the world of her first book from the position of being much more assured in her craft, with a established list of novels in different styles and a new perspective on the earlier work.
My friend and I have both achieved success in writing across genres and styles but if you don't want to be stereotyped early, I'd recommend avoiding series fiction as your entry into professional writing. As a newly published author – as any kind of author – your mind will be seething with ideas; you need to allow yourself time to experiment with them.
Writing full time is not the best career for a new graduate with no experience of the rest of the working world. I was incredible fortunate in that I had the opportunity to do this. But I started with no experience in managing my finances and planning my workload. The way that writers are paid advances (on signature, delivery and publication) and royalties (twice a year after advances have earned out) means that financial forward planning is virtually impossible because it all depends on the market. Don't take for granted sales figures that make it possible to work full time as a writer; the period in which your book is on sale in bookshops, being reviewed and noticed and marketed is fleeting.
Ultimately second book syndrome leads to third book syndrome and fourth book syndrome and so on. I know authors who have published hundreds of books; but managing publishers expectations and your own expectations of your work never ends. The lessons that you learn are to give yourself space and to be kind to yourself about your workload and rigorous when it comes to your art. Every writer has to learn that individually but I'd recommend gaining self knowledge of what kind of writer you are by stretching the boundaries of possibility as soon as you can. Whether it's your work space (and I redesigned mine on a yearly basis until about three years ago) or the time you set aside or your style, or genre or whatever makes you individual, expand to your boundaries, learn them and break them.
The second novel is too soon for you to decide your identity.
Book Buying Binge
Filed under: bloggery,life,recommended reading — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 7:49 pm
I've been on a book buying binge. I blame Amazon recommendations – which were actually spot on for a change instead of suggesting books based on presents I bought for other people. I came back from Wales to a heap of oblongs all for me:
Wither by Lauren DeStafano (I've already greedied this one up, first of a trilogy in which women die at 20 and boys at 25)
Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough (Tamsin should be a powerful witch but appears to have no magic at all)
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George (re-imagining of the 12 Dancing Princesses)
Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh (I've never read Brideshead, shocking – I know)
But that's not all of it. More oblongs are eagerly expected including:
Wired by Robin Wasserman
Crashed by Robin Wasserman (both are sequels to Skinned, which is awesome)
Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce (more in the Tortall universe in which I already have 3 other series about Alanna, Daine and Keladry respectively)
It's not as though I've finished my "to read" pile which is actually more of a "to read" shelf nowadays. I think I'm going to have to have another clear out, always painful, to fit the new stuff in. And now I'm going to have to get the sequels to Wither as well. I am being sucked into a vortex of books.
Ask an author: How can I learn to be a novelist?
Filed under: Advice for writers,ask an author — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 7:40 am
Rhiannon (a fan) asks: I was just wondering if could give me some advice on how to start off being a novelist because I have a poem published but really want to be a writer because I have a wild imagination.
Rhiannon (the author) replies:
Dear Rhiannon (what a lovely name!
Like you, I enjoy poetry and I won a poetry competition when I was 13 and it was one of the things that made me think about writing seriously. Congratulations on having your poem published!
There are lots of different ways to become a writer. The best way to get started is to read a lot and to write a lot. Let your imagination take you to extraordinary places and then work on writing them down so that they're as real to other people as they are to you. Think about what you're reading and what you're writing. Think about what makes a character or a place exciting, interesting and worth discovering more about. Think about the kind of story you and your friends enjoy reading and talk to your friends about your ideas. Maybe you could join a book group or a writers group to share your ideas with other people.
I keep an ideas file (both electronically and in hard copy) where I write down my ideas for books. I also have a lot of notebooks so I can sketch out ideas and plans and notes. I often have lots of different stories in my head, on paper and in electronic text. You can refer back to your notes, keep different projects in different folders or notebooks and pick up and put down different ideas as you go. Don't be afraid to put down an idea if it seems to go dead in your head. You'll have lots of false starts and lots of ideas that you can't yet see how to develop. As long as you're enjoying writing and inventing stories, keep going, eventually you should find the seed of an idea which you can develop into a novel.
NaNoWriMo is a community project to help people write a lot of words. Novels tend to be 60,000+ words so you need to be able to sustain a story across a lot of words. But the more you write the better at it you'll become. Once you've learned how to write multiple chapters you can hone your writing to ensure it's expressing and achieving what you want it to.
Good luck with becoming a writer and with your poetry. Poetry is an art of its own and perhaps you'll find a way to use your poetry in writing fiction.
Ask an author: an occasional feature
Filed under: ask an author,bloggery — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 7:45 pm
Got a question for an author. Ask it here!
Caution: all #askanauthor advice contains high levels of honesty and should be taken with care.
I'm thinking of quitting my job and spending a year writing a book. It's something I've always wanted to do. Should I follow my dream?"
Rhiannon says: Don't quit your job! 60% of professional authors don't make enough to support themselves on their writing income alone. Start by working on your book in evenings and weekends, set aside time to write it and get a copy of the Writers and Artists Yearbook for lists of professional contacts and submission advice. If you get a good response from agents consider approaching your employer about going part time.
Following your dream is much more possible when your bills are paid. It's hard to manufacture inspiration when you're fretting about the rent cheque.
I want to write a book about a vampire family in New Orleans or a game in which teenagers compete to the death.
Rhiannon says: Let me stop you there. It's really important to know the market. Every genre of fiction has classics and current top sellers. Make a note of them. You want to write something that appeals to the same audience as these books – but don't end up rewriting them. Even if you came across the idea independently, if it's like something else that already exists you need to find a radical new twist or route into that kind of story to persuade a publisher to buy a book that's too like an existing title.
Do you think it is a good or a bad idea to take real life events and people and put them in your writing?
Rhiannon says: That depends on how you use them. I've drawn on real life events in my writing, for example the first time I had really bad vertigo. But events and situations that involve other people can be tricky. There are events that occur in most people's lives from the first day of school to the first really bad breakup. Drawing on your own experience adds depth to these events but if you find yourself retelling a real life situation or putting someone you know into a book stop and consider if you want to write this kind of autobiographical fiction. It exposes you – especially if one of your characters becomes a thinly veiled authorial self-insertion. Do you want to be judged on your witty/truthful/insightful retelling or real life or on your creation of situations characters who you invent who you hope will feel real to the reader. What kind of author do you want to be?
Q&A Friday
Filed under: bloggery,Q&A,recommended reading — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 11:50 pm
Rhiannon answers your questions here on her blog.
What have you been reading recently?
Rhiannon: More Steph Swainston: The Modern World and Above the Snowline.
What have you been writing recently?
Rhiannon: Nothing significant but thoughts are percolating.
What else have you been doing?
Rhiannon: I attended an inspirational and thought-provoking conference: Women + Leadership, hosted by Oxford Brookes University. I've also been revising my school visits and preparing a new set of creative writing workshops.
What would you like to ask your readers today?
Rhiannon: What would you like a writer's workshop to include?
Filed under: bloggery,how I write,Q&A — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 1:21 pm
Rhiannon replies: I've just finished two novels by Steph Swainston: In The Year of Our War and No Present Like Time. They're urban fantasy – a sort of cross between Joan D. Vinge's Catspaw and Steven Brust's Taltos series. I acquired them at a friendly bookswap and liked them so much I've just ordered the next two from Amazon. I've also read a detective story Why Shoot a Butler by Georgette Heyer, a YA novel The Devil you Know by Leonie Norrington (which I'll be reviewing for Armadillo) and Seaworld, real world fiction by Ursula Le Guin.
Rhiannon replies: I'm still working on SPIN, but haven't written words because I was in a field without computers over the August bank holiday.
Why were you in a field?
Rhiannon replies: I was at the Reading Festival – listening to bands and dodging rain showers.
Thomas asks: What inspires you?
Rhiannon replies: Unusual situations. They inspire me to come up with stories about them. Children in unusual situations are an example of this. Celebrity children, gifted children, independent children. But I'm inspired by everywhere I go and whatever I do. Recently at the Reading Festival I wondered if I wanted to write a novel about a music festival in space and sketched out the first chapter in my head.
Sarah asks: How do you get into the right frame of mind for what you're writing?
Rhiannon replies: Reading books in the right sort of area helps… as long as they are not too close to my own ideas. Listening to music is sometimes helpful. The weather is also surprisingly relevant. I find it difficult to write about frozen winters on a hot sunny day and vice versa.
Sarah asks: Which is harder: plot or characterisation?
Rhiannon replies: I don't find either more difficult than the other. There are different challenges. Plots come quickly for me because my head is stuffed with ideas. Characterisation sometimes comes more slowly as I get to know a character. But later on in the book I have to do a lot of work on making a plot work out the way it should, while characterisation gets easier as I go on.
Sarah asks: Have you ever been tempted to write something that stars your cat?
Rhiannon replies: No. Recently I was reading Palace Without Chairs in which a (fictional) writer character says that to write about a fictional cat would feel untrue to his own real cat. For me, while I can write happily about fictional cats (Rameses in Ghost of a Chance for example) I wouldn't want to write about my own cat.
Thomas asks: What age did you start writing? And what was your first ever story?
Rhiannon replies: I started writing at 7. My story began like this "The night the old priestess died the soldjers souljers soljars solljeers solders …." until I gave up in frustration.
Advice for Writers: Who advises the advisers?
Filed under: About Rhiannon Lassiter,Advice for writers,articles,things I read on the internet — Tags: Celia Rees, Philip Pullman, Stephenie Meyer — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 8:05 am
Everyone loves to give advice. There's nothing quite like the pleasure of telling someone else how to lead their life.
I follow several different advice sites and "Ask InsertNameHere" columns, most of which have forum systems for giving your own advice. Often when I should be writing I spend my time explaining to strangers on the internet how they should act around cranky relations, annoying colleagues and other people's children. But although I do occasionally post under the category advice for writers on my blog, I'm never quite sure that it's the right thing to do.
One reason is that very few people ever take my advice. I can't tell you how many times a friend or friend-of-a-friend has asked me for advice on getting published only to ignore everything I've suggested. (The most often ignored advice is: "Don't write a 100,000 word novel and then submit it. Submit a 15,000 word draft and see if anyone actually *wants* more.") Nowadays I save my professional advice for my writers group, who are tough enough to cope with the occasional scathing critique ("someone hit by three crossbow bolts would not shake it off easily"), and for the teenagers who ask questions at schools and book fairs who have done me the courtesy of showing up and asking a question.
Another reason I don't write a lot of advice is that there's heaps of it already out there. Last year the Guardian asked every prominent author they could find for their ten rules for writing. There are books like How NOT to Write a Novel and blogs like Write to Be Published and The Stroppy Author's Guide to Publishing. Just google for "advice for writers" and you'll find 96 pages of results.
With so much advice on offer you have to wonder how useful it is. Much of it comes uncontextualised: "write what you know", "don't write in the second person", "don't write about vampires" – TELL ME WHY! Sometimes it's just plain wrong: "pay to get your text edited before submitting it", "design your own cover", "don't bother submitting to professional publishers" – NO, NO, NO! A substantial portion of online advice comes from unpublished, pre-published or independent authors with experience in self-publishing and self-promotion – but little to no experience of professional publication. Go to an indie author for advice on alternative avenues of publication: eBooks, internet, self publication and small presses. But for advice on publication by an established publishing company go to a pro author – or better yet, a professional agent, one who won't charge you a readers fee. (And there I go, giving advice.)
Advice doesn't exist in a vacuum – consider the credentials of your potential mentor. I've been asked to give advice about graphic novels, travel writing and poetry: genres in which my only experience is as a consumer. (Not that I mean to discount the experience of the reader: reading widely in a genre is a fine basis for critique.) I've been given advice by people who don't have a clue what they're talking about: "you should write a book like Harry Potter" or "my life would make a fantastic story – write about me!"
Some authors don't give advice. Philip Pullman's response to the Guardian's request for tips was: "My main rule is to say no to things like this, which tempt me away from my proper work". Careful readers will notice the stealth advice in that statement.
Most authors with an online presence give some sort of advice in their blogs, FAQs or other web pages. Advice posts are easy to write – you don't get to be a pro author without picking up at least one tip or trick along the way. That means they're an easy way to add content to your site – and marketing folk will often recommend creating a blog and posting up some advice to demonstrate you have an online existence. (Yes, I have been guilty of this when my blog was looking very empty.)
I asked some professional authors why they gave advice and the answers were enlightening:
"I think it's the teacher in me"
"[it's] a great way to procrastinate"
"if you've found something that works, it's tempting to think you've discovered the right way, and perhaps the only way, to do it"
"I get quite a few emails asking for advice – particularly from teen writers – so it's useful to be able to refer them to a page on my blog"
"[I] see it as a kind of 'pro bono' payback for all the times other writers have helped me when I wanted to know something"
"because I hate to see people slogging away re-inventing the wheel"
"I have absolutely no idea but I'm always grateful for whatever I can get. Especially if it's free…"
"it can be very fulfilling to help a writer 'break in'"
"there are writing techniques, rather than 'rules', just as there are techniques for music or art – and there's a world of difference between breaking them through ignorance or with intent"
And, perhaps the most compelling reason of all, "people ask".
The authors I asked responded with noticable humility. One author I asked said "I always stress however that it's based on my experiences so don't treat what I say as gospel – the industry changes and editors all have their own opinions". Another commented: "I give writing advice… but always present it as slightly eccentric and 'what works for me'". Another successful author said: "I always feel slightly ludicrous giving advice, I don't know that much myself…".
Advice given with the best of intent can be wrong. Celia Rees replied: "For every rule given, there's someone who has broken it and gone on to sell millions. Even the vampire thing – sure, they are going to throw every Stephenie Meyer lookalike straight in the bin, but if someone came up with another twist, that could be a different thing. The only rule is… there are no rules."
And I'm 40,000 words into a novel I haven't submitted yet because I want to make sure I get it right. Rules were made for breaking.
Writers who don't read
Filed under: About Rhiannon Lassiter,Advice for writers,things I read on the internet,Twitter — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 8:30 am
Today's quotation on @Quotes4Writers on Twitter is from John Birmingham, author of the wonderfully-titled He Died With a Felafel in his Hand:
"If you can't be bothered reading, do not bother trying to write. You'll fail." John Birmingham (@JohnBirmingham) http://bit.ly/JoBirm
The quotation is from an interview Birmingham did with Australian book blog 'Booktopia' in 2010. The interviewer commented "we live in a world where this advice has to be given!?" Like the interviewer, I find it hard to understand. I was a 'reading child' and reading may be the greatest constant in my life. I read every day at an average rate of about 50,000 words a day. In CVs and interviews the expression "I like reading" seems woefully inadequate. I *have* to read. After the air I breathe and the felafels I eat it's the next essential.
My friends are also readers. Many are writers but even those who don't write, read. Book recommendations, diatribes and discussions form a major tranche of our conversation. Local friends belong to a book group. (More distant friends do too: but a different group.) And it's reading that has made the writers want to write. In the last couple of weeks I've read about so many professional authors who were inspired by the late Diana Wynne Jones.
Still there are writers who don't read. I've met only a few of them over the years so they obviously move in different (less book-lined) circles, but they do exist. "Oh I don't have time to read, I'm too busy writing" is one explanation I've heard. Also "I don't want to be influenced". Weirdly, I've heard it from fanfiction authors, people definitely inspired to write by someone else's work, whose multiple chapter epics "don't leave time to read". What's with that?
What advantages are there really for the writer who doesn't read? Yes, you do have more time. That's got to be true. But will you use that time as well as the writer with a head stuffed full of stories? Not wanting to be influenced I can understand and I won't read a book too close to the subject of one I am currently writing. But that's about unintentional plagiarism for me. Influence in the wider sense of being inspired by someone else's work is a good thing. Being a non-reading writer seems to me like doing your work in the bottom of a well.
Feminist-friendly YA fiction
Filed under: recommended reading — Tags: feminism, YA fiction — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 2:00 pm
The furore I posted about yesterday has inspired me to do a new recommendations list of feminist-friendly YA novels.
But, before I launch into it, what qualifies something in my mind to appear on this list. Here are the factors I am currently working on:
Equal billing, equality of opportunity: women and girls should be presented as equal to men and boys. Ideally there should be as many female characters as male and in similarly ranked professions e.g. fiction with three male doctors and three female nurses would not count
Passes Bechdel test: girls must talk together about something other than boys
Avoids stereotyping: boys are allowed to like pink and dislike sport, girls are allowed to enjoy sport and aren't inevitably interested in fashion.
Okay so those three are givens. I think there are probably lots of other potential criteria too though – elements that aren't required but would increase the feminist-friendly nature of the work. For example:
Characters discover/learn/engage with feminist issues e.g. equal pay, reproductive freedom, harmfulness of the beauty industry etc
Matriarchal fantasy society or similar female empowerment, unless presented as vile dystopia
Does anyone have ideas to add to these?
An example recommendation, on these terms, with an explanation, might read:
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
In the fairytale kingdom of Ingary, oldest sister Sophie expects to fail first and worst at everything she tries. But when a wicked witch's curse turns her life upside down she sets off to seek her fortune. Strong and intelligent female characters strew the pages of this book from Sophie and her sisters to the Witch of the Waste herself. Some readers might cavil at the romance plot which suggests the love of a good woman redeems a shiftless man but this is expressed with emotional realism and doesn't fall back on an easy 'happy ever after' ending.
Censorship or responsiveness?
Filed under: bloggery,links,recommended reading,things I read on the internet — Tags: Elizabeth Scott, feminism, Jackson Pearce, John Scalzi, Margo Lanagan, YA fiction — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 1:30 pm
Bitch magazine posted a list of "100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader". The original list included Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce and Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott. After receiving critique that Tender Morsels validates (by failing to critique or discuss) rape as an act of vengeance, Sister's Red has a victim-blaming scene and Living Dead Girl is triggering, the editors decided to remove/replace the books commenting: "We still feel that these books have merit and would not hesitate to recommend them in certain instances, but we don't feel comfortable keeping them on this particular list."
John Scalzi posted about this on his blog and reported that:
a number of high profile, award-winning and/or bestselling YA authors, including Scott Westerfeld, Justine Larbalestier, Maureen Johnson and Ellen Kages hit the roof and show up in the comments to demand their own books be removed from the list as well.
But I'm not so sure that this deserves to be called censorship. I find myself feeling differently about this than I did about a teenage literary festival disinviting guest of honour Ellen Hopkins after one librarian challenged the suitability of her work. Is Bitch really wrong to ensure that their list of YA books is feminist-friendly? If a book had made it on to the list but had the conclusion that a feisty female character should stop being such a tomboy and wear high heels, they'd surely be right to remove it. Obviously in an ideal world they'd have researched, read and discussed all the titles before putting them on the list but even a book might be challenged by a reader who noticed something the editors didn't.
I haven't read any of the contentious titles so I don't know if the criticism is validated. (I turn out to have read only 17/100 so I need to get to the local library and check out all the books I've missed.) I am a little uncomfortable with one person making a complaint and then the list being changed. Although, in the case of Sister's Red the commenter did link to another blog post with 98 comments at the BookSmugglers blog on the potential problems with the book.
Part of being an active feminist or feminist ally means listening when someone tells you that text or imagery is problematic, that the message you are sending is not the one you intended to send, that you need to think harder, think deeper about certain ideas and concepts.
Does Scott Westerfield's status as a published YA author of a book on the list or his opinion that Tender Morsels is a good book constitute more valid grounds for inclusion than the complainants' grounds for exclusion?
What do you think, readers? Bitch made a mistake, I think we can all agree on that. But what was their mistake? Including the books in the first place? Taking them off the list again?
Is this censorship or response to criticism? (Interestingly one commenter liked the list but thought it was inappropriate to show to a teenage girl because it includes the word 'bitch', the name of the magazine. Now that *is* censorship and the magazine rightly refused to remove their own name from the list. I can usually tell what is and what isn't censorship.)
Let me know your thoughts. And also how many of the books on the list you've read – or if you've read the three contentious titles.
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President Xi Getting Pretty Jealous Of Biden Administration's Ability To Censor Speech On Social Media
BEIJING—In a candid statement today, President Xi Jinping admitted he's "actually pretty jealous" of the United States government's ability to censor information it doesn't like over social media.
Sources close to the ruler of China's communist party and government said he was "fairly envious" of how effective the U.S. system of censorship works. He was particularly impressed with how the Biden White House doesn't even have to censor information themselves, but can simply flag posts as problematic and private companies will jump to take care of dissenters automatically. Even President Xi usually has to "lift a finger" to censor someone, so he's pretty jealous of the way the U.S. is handling censorship of "misinformation."
"Honestly, I'm impressed, and a little jealous," said China's dictator after he heard Press Secretary Jen Psaki say the White House flags posts for Facebook to remove and that someone who gets banned on one social network should get banned on all of them. "And I thought I had absolute control over the speech of my people! This is next-level stuff. Really quite something."
"And having a private company do it so the people can't complain about freedom of speech – brilliant. My hat is off to the United States."
At publishing time, President Xi had phoned Biden on his special "red phone" that lets him speak directly to his friend Joe to get more tips on how to rule his people with an iron fist.

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Give Me Love (Muke)
by myhellismymind
The Galaxy Chicken
Never Lit a Match With Intent to Start a Fire
One Less Problem Without You
You Make Me Feel Low
Something of Value But Something Untrue
Glass Over Diamond Blue Eyes
Labels Are Overrated
Cradle Your Head In Your Hands And Just Breathe
I Remember Feeling So High But I'm Right Back at the Start
You're In My Veins and I Cannot Get You Out
It Comes and Goes in Waves
I Don't Care If You're Sick
The Only Reason You Breathe Is to Sleep through the Night
Bring Her Back or Take Me with Her
He Wears the Perfect Disguise
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Michael goes from the blank white walls of the hospital room to the blank white walls of his room. The ghosts that took turns sitting with him until visiting hours took turns talking to him on the way home until he shuts himself in his room. The graveyard waiting room fills the house outside of Michael's headspace.
Michael's still a dead man, he just looks more alive than he did.
Michael's filled with feelings, but they all explode in bursts of color and fade away before he can grasp them. Red for his incinerated soul, white for his empty and longing walls, grey for the ache in his bones, black for his despair. Michael's burning up slowly and surely. The colors drown in the flames and leave Michael just a shell.
Michael locks the door of his room as he steps inside and sighs, looking around the room. Nothing's changed. Nobody's been in his room. Ashton and Calum came back to sleep at night, and Luke went back to his parents' place during his time at the hospital hours. And so Michael's room is untouched. Perfect. Immaculate. Michael may as well have not existed. With his bed made and his clothes lying in the corner where he left them the night he stripped them off before Luke.
Michael sits on the edge of his bed and runs his hands over the covers. It's his bed. But it's not really his bed. It's some guest bed left here by whoever owns this house. Whoever let them use this house. The walls are empty because nobody really lives here. Michael's an inhabitant, a passing figure.
Michael didn't grow up here. He grew up miles away in instability. And he grew up alone. The other boys grew up together. They grew up in homes. Michael simply grew up where he had to.
He lies flat on his bed. The ceiling leans towards him. Michael's crushed by the cold, impersonal feel of the room. And he's never realized how much it looks like a hospital room, and he's never realized how much it feels like a grave.
Nobody talks to Michael, and Michael doesn't talk to anybody.
Michael remains in silence, lost. There's nobody to shake him out of it. For the first time in days, he's well and truly alone. Although he's been alone all along.
The hospital stay did nothing for him. He's alive. They simply brought him of the edge of an unseen cliff and sent him home with a shove. They gave him back his pills and an excessively clear prescription. So he couldn't make a mistake again.
Michael never made a mistake. He had no intention of dying, but he did what he believed he had to.
He's developing some sort of retrograde numbness, starting from when he woke up in the hospital. Everything that happened before is sharp and colored. Even the dizzy days leading up to the overdose are graspable to Michael. Since then, there seems to be an endless stretch of despair in each moment.
He remembers being angry at Luke when he met him, remembers him crying softly in the rain while Michael held him. He remembers the pain of his mother's memory like a slow knife twisting in him, although it's faded now. He remembers the tables being turned and crying in Luke's arms. And he remembers that night, in such agonizing detail, and how terrifying it was to understand for the first time just how much he loved Luke. Like an arrow through his chest, and the overdose yanked it back out.
There would have been freedom beyond. Michael's sure of that at least.
Please, Michael, don't scare me again. I love you I love you I love you. Don't you ever leave. Michael, Michael...
"...Michael?"
Michael shakes himself. "'S open," he calls.
It's Luke, always Luke. Michael wonders about the boy he first met who couldn't even speak to him without looking paralyzed.


Lake Garda provides the beautiful backdrop for the GF Bottecchia.
Lago di Garda, the largest and deepest of the spectacular Italian lakes was hewn from the rock during the Ice Age. This Gran Fondo delivers 95 kms (60-miles) and 1,500 meters (5,200 feet) of climbing. But with great descents and the fast, flatter stretches your early season legs don't need to be hewn from rock to enjoy this very special Italian GF.
What exactly is Bottecchia's heritage?
The title of the Gran Fondo Bottecchia hails back to Ottavio Bottecchia, born in the region of Treviso in 1894. From an early age his cycling prowess was evident. Winning a gold watch in his first race he also fought in the First World War in a mobile folding bikes division, and was awarded a bronze medal for distinguished service.
His riding thereafter was no less distinguished, and Teodoro Carnielli, owner of a small bicycle manufacturing company, spotted his talent and gave him a racing bike as a present. Ottavio was 5thin the 1923 Giro, and in the same year entered Le Tour de France to come 2ndon the gruelling 381 kms Paris to Le Havre first stage. He finished 2ndoverall just behind the legendary Henri Pélissier.
In 1924 Bottecchia won Le Tour and was not only the first Italian to win the prestigious French competition, winning four stages, but also the first cyclist to wear the yellow jersey from the first to final stage.
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French automaker Peugeot-Citroen is going nuts for electric vehicles, but rather than building them it will slap its logo on boatloads of Mitsubishis. The Japanese company has agreed to build 100,000 i-MiEV electric cars for the French company under a contract that runs through 2015, according to Automotive News Europe. It's a smart move for […]
French automaker Peugeot-Citroen is going nuts for electric vehicles, but rather than building them it will slap its logo on boatloads of Mitsubishis.
The Japanese company has agreed to build 100,000 i-MiEV electric cars for the French company under a contract that runs through 2015, according to Automotive News Europe. It's a smart move for everyone involved. Beyond helping Mitsubishi boost volume, cut costs and recoup its investment in the electric runabout, the deal allows Peugeot-Citroen to quickly and easily compete against Renault in the electric arena.
Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is determined to get EVs on the road this year. Nissan promises to have the Leaf EV in showrooms by November, and Renault rolls out an EV next year. Peugeot-Citroen agreed last year to buy 25,000 cars from Mitsubishi, then doubled the order late last year and again in February, according to ANE. The French company wants to sell 25,000 electric vehicles annually, split evenly among its two brands, but hitting that target will take awhile because Mitsubishi is still ramping up battery production. The Japanese company has the capacity to build just 9,000 batteries in the next year.
The Japanese-French EV will be called the Peugeot iOn and the Citroen C-Zero. Although mechanically identical to the iMiEV, they will have restyled bumpers and interiors and "different handling characteristics." Peugeot-Citroen brand director Jean-Marc Gales told ANE the cars will be available by the end of the year. They'll cost about 30,000 Euros, which works out to $40,770.
"We are not ruling out fleet sales, but our main target is urban private buyers with a sense of style and the environment," Gales said.
As for the iMiEV, it's already on sale for fleet use in Japan. Consumers will be able to buy them starting next month. The car arrives in Europe at the end of the year and in the United States in 2011.
The four-seat iMiEV uses a 16 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery with a claimed range of 100 miles and a recharge time of seven hours when plugged into a 220-volt line. Propulsion comes from a 47 kilowatt (63 horsepower) AC syncronous motor. Top speed is 80 mph.
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The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War
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In the most comprehensive study of the media and foreign policy, twenty distinguished scholars and analysts explain the role played by the mass media and public opinion in the development of United States foreign policy in the Gulf War.
Tracing the flow of news, public opinion, and policy decisions from Sadam Hussein's rise to power in 1979, to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, through the outbreak and conclusion of the war, the contributors look at how the media have become key players in the foreign policy process. They examine the pre-war media debate, news coverage during and after the war, how the news-gathering process shaped the content of the coverage, and the media's effect on public opinion and decision makers. We see what goes on behind the scenes in the high tech world of political communication, and are confronted by troubling questions about the ways the government managed coverage of the war and captured journalists at their own news game.
Taken by Storm also examines more general patterns in post-Cold war journalism and foreign policy, particularly how contemporary journalistic practices determine whose voices and what views are heard in foreign policy coverage. At stake are the reactions of a vast media audience and the decision of government officials who see both the press and the public and key elements of the policy game.
The first book to fully integrate our understanding of the news business, public opinion, and government action, Taken by Storm transcends the limits of the Gulf War to illuminate the complex relationship between the media, the public, and U.S. foreign policy in the late twentieth century.
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328 pages | xvii1, 308 p. | 6 x 9 | © 1994
American Politics and Political Economy Series
Political Science: American Government and Politics
Introduction to the Media and Foreign Policy
A View from the Press
Marvin Kalb
A View from the Military
Thomas W. Kelly
A View from the Academy
Bernard C. Cohen
1: The News About Foreign Policy
W. Lance Bennett
2: The Press as Prologue: Media Coverage of Saddam's Iraq, 1979-1990
Gladys Engel Lang, Kurt Lang
3: News and Historical Content: The Establishment Phase of the Persian Gulf Policy Debate
William A. Dorman, Steven Livingston.
4: The News before the Storm: The Iraq War Debate and the Limits to Media Independence
Robert M. Entman, Benjamin I. Page.
5: Domesticating a Crisis: Washington Newsbeats and Network News after the
Iraq Invasion of Kuwait
Timothy E. Cook
6: Strategic Public Diplomacy: Managing Kuwait's Image During the Gulf
Jarol B. Manheim
7: The Gulf War as Popular Culture and Television Drama
Daniel C. Hallin, Todd Gitlin.
8: News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion: A Study of
Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing
Shanto Iyengar, Adam Simon.
9: Elite Leadership of Mass Opinion: New Evidence from the Gulf War
John Zaller
10: Crisis, War, and Public Opinion: The Media and Public Support for the
Richard A. Brody
11: A Mutual Exploitation Model of Media Influence in U.S. Foreign Policy
Patrick O'Heffernan
12: Strategic Politicians, Public Opinion, and the Gulf Crisis
13: Just Deserts?
David L. Paletz
Appendix: Gulf Conflict Event Guide


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Caleb Dolister
The Kandinsky Effect (thekandinskyeffect.com) released Pax 6 in Fall 2017 on Ropeadope Records. The album reflected our evolving vision of dark rhythmic landscapes, dynamic and shifty melodies, and is one of our proud accomplishments. It was recorded in Chamonix, France during April of 2016 and builds on several of our compositional directions started on Somnambulist (2015), Synesthesia (2013), and the band's first self-titled release (2010). Originally formed as a project to blend electronics and jazz, The Kandinsky Effect has matured over its 10-year lifespan to develop a truly unique sound that is hard to replicate and compare. Get the album here.
oddAtlas
A fantastic musical project with Warren Walker, Federico Casagrande, Sam Minaie. We recorded at the same remote alpine studio in Chamonix, France that we used for The Kandinsky Effect, but this time during a frigid week in December 2016. The album also was backed by Ropeadope Records and released in spring of 2018. It's easily one of the most creative and deep albums I have worked on. Get it here.
Twin Whales
Fun New York rock band. Kinda mathy, kinda garage, kinda dope. Joined by Ty Williams and Bradford Hill, and occasionally the world famous Kevin Lum. The debut release, Watt Doom came out on Orenda Records in October 2018. More about the band and our album here.
Daily Thumbprint Collection, Vol 3
I've been working on my large-ensemble solo release for 10 years. This is a follow up to my two self-released albums that came out in 2008 and 2016. The music and album are finished and I am now in media production stages (artwork, video, etc). It's pretty epic.
Dr. Mint just finished performing at the Boise State Jazz Festival, spring 2019. Our most recent releases are killer and you can find them here.
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Tunepatch is an experimental project I built that gives bands, small labels, solo musicians the ability to easily create digital music hotspots using print band merchandise or promotional materials. For example, we sell shirts for The Kandinsky Effect that include access to download Pax 6. It's currently a beta release and is available to use for free. www.tunepatch.com
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Hattieville police made a gun bust on Sunday during which they intercepted a trio of men inside a pickup and found a nine millimetre firearm and four live rounds of ammunition. As a result, the driver and owner of the vehicle, twenty-five-year-old Tremaine Williams as well as brothers, Anthony and Andrew Lewis were all charged for the offenses of kept unlicensed firearm and kept unlicensed ammunition. The trio, after two nights in police custody, appeared this morning in the Belize City Magistrate's Court where they were read two firearm related offenses. Andrew pleaded guilty to both charges and was informed by Magistrate Michelle Trap that he was facing a mandatory minimum sentence of five years. According to the police, two officers on duty stopped Williams' vehicle and in a search, found a firearm and ammo hidden under the driver's seat of the vehicle. This morning, Andrew told the court that Tremaine and Anthony had no idea about the gun he had placed in the vehicle which was for his own protection. Magistrate Trapp struck out the charges against Tremaine and Anthony and told them they were free to go. She then sentenced Andrew to two five-year sentences to run concurrently which means he will only serve five years.


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What about killer robots?
Leaders from the robotics industry have written a letter to the UN urging a ban on "killer robots." 116 robotics and artificial intelligence companies from across the world have co-signed..
Leaders from the robotics industry have written a letter to the UN urging a ban on "killer robots."
116 robotics and artificial intelligence companies from across the world have co-signed the open letter.
Killer robots are essentially Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs). They are military robots that can target and attack without any intervention from a human operator. The targets can range from a specific location to a group of people. These kinds of robots are designed to function in different kinds of environment including air, water and land.
These so-called killer robots have been in the center of an ongoing discourse regarding the ethical ramifications of their existence. In 2013, a group was formed called the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Tech leaders and scientists like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have urged for the banning of such equipment. In 2015, they published a statement elaborating that this could lead to an arms race between nations.
On December 16th, 123 members of the UN agreed to begin formal discussions on the topic. The dialogue between the members was postponed in August 2017. The UN said that this was due to some of the members reportedly not paying their financial dues to the organization.
The tech leaders who signed the letter said that it was regrettable that the first round of these talks had been cancelled. They urged nations across the world and the UN to ban these robots. Apart from Tesla's Elon Musk, Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google's DeepMind has also signed the appeal. The letter states, "Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways." Experts have said that this could usher in the "Third Revolution" in warfare.
Toby Walsh, professor of AI at University of New South Wales and one of the signatories of the letter has been quoted by the Financial Times as stating, "This new arms race has already begun in every sphere of the battlefield — air, at sea and on land. These autonomous weapons threaten to industrialize war and the way we kill people. If they become part of the military industrial complex they will end up being used against civilians."
Ryan Gariepy, Founder of Clearpath Robotics has stated the development of such weapons was unwise and unethical and universally banned.
Our assessment is that governments across the world must decide on whether they should heed the warnings of technology leaders and experts or continue pushing the boundaries of what military combat could become in the future. We believe that killer robots can be a threat to humanity and any autonomous 'kill functions' should be banned.


Sleeping pills are a type of medication prescribed by doctors as a short-term treatment for problems with sleep disorders. The use of sleeping pills must be under the supervision of a doctor. If not consumed wisely, sleeping pills can bring dangerous side effects, ranging from memory disorders, allergies, to dependence.
Do you have a sleep disorder? Don't rush to take sleeping pills to overcome them. Before you decide to use it, it's good to know what side effects can be caused by using sleeping pills.
There are various types of sleeping pills with different uses and risks. Some can make you sleep longer or help you sleep more easily. Sleeping drugs in the benzodiazepine group are referred to as central nervous system tranquilizers that play a role in slowing down the nervous system's work. While other groups, non-benzodiazepines, have safer side effects.
To be able to find the right medicine, before prescribing sleeping pills, your doctor will ask about your sleep patterns and various other activities that can affect your sleep. Your doctor may also do a test to detect the condition behind sleep disorders.
If necessary, your doctor will prescribe sleeping pills for a period of time to see the side effects and benefits. Talk to your doctor about the type, dosage, and side effects of sleeping pills, including the presence or absence of generic sleeping pills at lighter prices. You are not advised to take other types of sleeping pills without the doctor's knowledge, if the medication given does not give effect as expected.
Here are some types of sleeping pills commonly used.
In addition to the drugs above, there are also low-dose sleep medications used to treat insomnia due to depression. These drugs include: amitriptyline, mirtazapine, trazodone.
Changes in mood (mood) or behavior.
Memory disturbances and out of focus.
Burning or tingling sensation in the legs, arms, hands.
Severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. This reaction can include angioedema, which is a severe swelling of the face.
Add dependency. Without sleeping pills, you become more and more difficult to sleep. Even sleep activity can be the most worrying time.
In certain cases side effects can be severe such as parasomnia, namely behavior and actions that cannot be controlled. People who experience parasomnia are not aware of what is happening. In the midst of unconsciousness, sufferers can walk, eat, even call while sleeping.
Sleeping pills can also be dangerous for people with certain diseases, such as asthma. Sleeping pills can make it difficult for people with asthma because the side effects of sleeping pills can make a person breathe more slowly and slowly. Those who have high blood pressure, kidney disorders, and a history of seizures also need to be alert. Likewise pregnant and lactating women, elderly people, and people who are taking certain drugs that can react with sleeping pills.
Before taking sleeping pills, it's a good idea to consult your doctor first to find out the cause or background of the occurrence of insomnia.
Make sure you read all instructions including the dosage indicated on the label, especially on the side effects. Consult a doctor if there is information that you do not understand.
Never drink alcohol along with sleeping pills. A combination of sleeping pills and alcohol will increase both side effects, and can cause respiratory arrest which can be fatal.


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Q: Showing/hiding elements in row when hovering the row I have an HTML table that I create using angular-datatables. The HTML for the table looks like this

            Id
            {{key | capitalize}}

            {{item.id}}
            {{item.name}}
            {{item.description}}
            {{item.type}}

I want the  element (the download button) to appear only when the specific row is hovered. Please note - not only when hovering the specific item or td, but when hovering over every point in the row.

A: You should be able to do this with a hover:
tr.no-border i.action-icon{
   display:none;
}
tr.no-border:hover i.action-icon{
   display:block;
}

A: No need of Javascript/ jQuery for this, just use CSS:
tr i {
    opacity: 0;
}

tr:hover i {
    opacity: 1;
}

A: Try something like:

td {
  padding: 10px;
  min-width: 100px;
}
tr {
  border-top: 1px solid;
}
table {
  border: 1px solid;
}
i {
  display: none;
}
tr:hover i {
  display: block;
}

      Lorem
      Ipsum
      button

      Dolor
      hello
      button

      Lorem
      Ipsum
      button

A: Try this:
$("td").on("hover", function(){
    if($(this).find("i").is(":visible"))
        $(this).find("i").hide();
    else
        $(this).find("i").show();
});

A: Based on this tutorial I created a quite similar directive that instead of checking the parent for hover, it checks the grandparent (because the icon's parent is the td element and I want the tr). So the directive looks as follows:
angular.module('my.directives').directive('showOnGrandparentHover',
   function() {
      return {
         link : function(scope, element, attrs) {
            element.hide(); // Start with icon hidden
            element.parent().parent().bind('mouseenter', function() {
               element.show();
            });
            element.parent().parent().bind('mouseleave', function() {
               element.hide();
            });
       }
   };
});

Then my HTML element looks like this:

A: definitely CSS is the way to go.
however, please think of accessibility, if possible so add tabindex="0" to the download "button" and make it appear if it's focused, like so:
tr i[ng-click] {
  opacity: 0;
}

tr:hover i[ng-click],
tr i[ng-click]:focus {
  opacity: 1;
}

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