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[nbkuantan36]

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[saulnewton]

My late night muse #writewords #9.2percent #luvmkecraft

[thedoveofshield]

"I was sorta hoping you wouldn't notice"

In this place of strange things. This container of mystical objects and people of other worlds. I was hoping you wouldn't see the wings on my back that could fill a hallway, the feathers, though grey, that gleamed. I was hoping you would notice something else, anything. The way I styled my hair, my dark eyes, lidded in non-regulation shimmer, the skinny jeans and untied laces of my boots.  I was hoping you wouldn't notice them, the things that make me apart from human. Instead, that you would focus on the smile on my mouth, the cantor of my voice, the way my accent twists my vowels unlike yours. I was hoping you saw a person under the misguided metaphor of an angel. That my abnormal anatomy wasn't the sole definition of my being. That the label of 'mutant' wasn't the only word to describe me.  I was sort of hoping you wouldn't notice. But I've learned to not let myself down.

[titania177]

And more about .... me

I am interviewed today over at WriteWords, the excellent online writers' forum whose Flash Fiction group I have been a member of for several years and which I find invaluable, both in terms of stimulation and in terms of community. Here's a taster of the interview:

I started writing fiction at the age of 6 with my first attempt, a novel about triplets, which luckily never saw the light of day! I always loved words, I devoured books even before I knew which way up to hold them. But I also loved maths and science, and growing up in England in the 1970s, my school wouldn't allow me to study arts and sciences after the age of 16, so I went towards science and studied Maths and Physics. At uni, I realised I would never, ever become a scientist, I was dreadful at experiments, so I studied for a diploma in journalism, moved to Israel and worked as a science journalist. While this did combined my two loves, there was always a niggling at the back of my mind about writing fiction. I went to some writing workshops in the US and the UK, including a wonderful Arvon Foundation course on Writing and Science, tailor-made, it seemed at the time, for me! .....

For the rest of the interview, click here. (I think it is viewable by non-WW members..I hope so!) And even more... here's another interview with me, at Nik's marvellous blog. Thanks so much, Nik.