Gleefully validated

This is just a note to say that Neil Gaiman, Unlined's patron saint (or otherwise supernatural being of great, if perhaps more morally ambiguous but much more interesting value) if ever there was one, handwrites the first draft of his novels in unlined notebooks.

I go off and number the pages about 50 pages ahead of where I am, because otherwise I will absentmindedly misnumber them while I'm writing. And as I start a new page I circle the number. Putting the circle on the number makes me remarkably happy. Also drawing a small gravestone with a number on it at the end of each chapter.

Photoillustrations and all, Mr. Gaiman really is my kind of nerd.

If you don't follow his blog directly on the site, there's also a Livejournal feed which you and 16,000 of your closest acquaintances can see on your friendslist.

You know who else you can follow on your friendslist? This very blog right here. Unlined now has a feed of its own, so add unlinedstories to bring the magazine's latest finds right to your doorstep, like the milkman did back in the day.

That's all for the moment -- over and out!