Groonkly Bit: Never Let Your Fingers Get Cold


From the current Warren Ellis interrogation thread on Whitechapel, I learn that I am not alone in these practices.

@oldhat: 1. I’ve often found it amazing how you’re able to write so many things in a day and can still come online and torment/love us. Do you have a schedule for that kind of thing, and if so can you run some of it by us? Just wondering how you do your amazing time management.

@warrenellis: It’s all on instinct, but mostly the other stuff is done during natural pauses in the work, where I can’t quite see how to get to the next bit yet, but don’t want to leave the keyboard and let my fingers get cold. So I flick up Whitechapel, Feed Demon or the Post2Blog window, just to keep typing, until the story unsticks itself and I can bring the manuscript back up



Groonkly Bit : “And Also You Forgot”


Somehow inside the tendriled insanity that is this week’s Do Anything by Warren Ellis, I found coherency and decided to remember it for all time.

(…And inside, atop a rotting plinth that you belatedly realise is composed of the bodies of Len Wein’s Swamp Thing and Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing seized by cellular coma in the act of copulation, is Alan Moore on his ultradimensional stone throne, pointing an armoured finger at you and lurching forward and his scary atom eyes are burning into the front of your head as he says “There is no escape from structure. You are reading this inside a machine for living in, from a surface that is the end product of hundreds of years of industrial processes, and also you forgot –”)