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Jo Boyle Exercise. More specifically, walking. I felt that during CICATRICE, I had a lot of those moments of paralysis, and I often found that when I couldn't …moreExercise. More specifically, walking. I felt that during CICATRICE, I had a lot of those moments of paralysis, and I often found that when I couldn't nut out a problem, walking had a way of clearing the mind and revealing a solution. (less)
Jo Boyle Wow. The best thing about being a writer. Interestingly, I've heard it said so many times that you should "write what you know". And that makes perfec…moreWow. The best thing about being a writer. Interestingly, I've heard it said so many times that you should "write what you know". And that makes perfect sense, surely. As a writer, you want to be authentic. And you don't want to sound like a clown! (Unless you're writing about clowns.) But I can tell you honestly, the most important - the most central of what CICATRICE is - had not been experienced by me, UNTIL I wrote it. For me, the writing BECAME the experience. So I guess the short answer to the question is: Writing gives hope. Hope that something so thoroughly felt and experienced in the imagination, may some day come to pass outside of it.(less)
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"I wasn’t planning on starting another book after going on a bit of a binge, but something about the excerpt provided with The Space She Made For Me was too captivating. What I thought had been a cliffhanger was the entirety of the first story in this" Read more of this review »
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“Isn’t a novel just a bunch of short stories tied together?” “Ah, how I wish it were so, George. Think of it this way. A novel is a marriage. A series of short stories is a bunch of one-night stands. The latter might always keep you active, but you wouldn’t call the sum total of all that bedhopping a relationship.”
Jo Boyle, The Space She Made for Me: A Collection of Sapphic Short Stories

“I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... I shouldn't have... I'm sorry, Jay. It's the ghee. All that purified butter clogging my inhibitors.”
Jo Boyle, Cicatrice: New Eyes and Brave
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“I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... I shouldn't have... I'm sorry, Jay. It's the ghee. All that purified butter clogging my inhibitors.”
Jo Boyle, Cicatrice: New Eyes and Brave
tags: humour

“Isn’t a novel just a bunch of short stories tied together?” “Ah, how I wish it were so, George. Think of it this way. A novel is a marriage. A series of short stories is a bunch of one-night stands. The latter might always keep you active, but you wouldn’t call the sum total of all that bedhopping a relationship.”
Jo Boyle, The Space She Made for Me: A Collection of Sapphic Short Stories

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