Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
Sometimes I write what I can’t paint, and I paint what I can’t write. I use a different part of the brain.
Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that’s when I found my rhythm in writing.
I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn’t just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.
And now, I’m a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I’ll wake up from.
I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it’s grounded in reality.
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.
The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
I think that’s a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.
I don’t always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.
The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.