Canine Mathematics - Revision history

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 Right brain is out of ideas by now, so left brain sketches out a coda to the piece, where the MC is now sitting in his office, reflecting on the encounter. But we’re still looking for a punch line. Finally, right brain has a second wind and remembers the old joke about the man who comes across a dog who tells him all about his exploits in the CIA. He tells the owner what an amazing dog he has, but the owner merely scoffs and tells him not to believe a word the dog says. And an adaptation of that joke steers the story to its final destination.
-All I did before submitting it to ''[[Smokebox]]'' was clean up a few bits of slightly mangled writing, and reduce the alcohol consumption from seventeen pints to seven or eight. Even in my student days, that was about my limit, and bad things usually started happening well before then.
+All I did before submitting it to ''[http://www.smokebox.net Smokebox]'' was clean up a few bits of slightly mangled writing, and reduce the alcohol consumption from seventeen pints to seven or eight. Even in my student days, that was about my limit, and bad things usually started happening well before then.
 So, the message? Don’t be afraid to let the right brain off the leash. Don’t wait for inspiration to strike—start writing. And if all else fails, bring on a talking animal.

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 I’d like to answer that by taking you through the process of developing one particular flash. The reason why I’ve chosen this one is that the process of creation took place over a very short time span (under an hour), so I can be quite precise about what was going on at the time.
-The piece in question, [[Canine Mathematics]], was created as part of a charity event held every year in aid of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_need BBC Children in Need] by ''[[Alex Keegan's Bootcamp]]''. I’ve never been a member of ''[[Bootcamp]]'' (it’s not my kind of place), but I joined in with this as a visitor in 2007, basically because it seemed like a good opportunity to hang out with some of the cool kids in the playground. [[Canine Mathematics]] eventually got published in ''[[Smokebox]]'' (I wasn’t even aware of EDF back then). As it happens, it was my first-ever piece published on the internet, so I’ve got a lot of affection for it.
+The piece in question, [[Canine Mathematics]], was created as part of a charity event held every year in aid of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_need BBC Children in Need] by ''[[Alex Keegan's Bootcamp]]''. I’ve never been a member of ''[[Bootcamp]]'' (it’s not my kind of place), but I joined in with this as a visitor in 2007, basically because it seemed like a good opportunity to hang out with some of the cool kids in the playground. [[Canine Mathematics]] eventually got published in ''[http://www.smokebox.net Smokebox]'' (I wasn’t even aware of EDF back then). As it happens, it was my first-ever piece published on the internet, so I’ve got a lot of affection for it.
 The way the Children in Need event works is that you are sent a series of around 40 prompts every hour, and you then have an hour in which to produce a piece inspired by one or more of them. The event takes place over 30 hours, from Thursday at 6PM through to Friday midnight, with some people (sadly not including me) ploughing on right through Thursday night. There are also a couple of practice nights leading up to this, so by the time Friday evening comes along, I’m getting the idea of how it all works, and I’ve already produced one or two pieces that have worked reasonably well, although there are a whole load of others that have crashed and burned.

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 ===Publications===
-Under its new name, '''Canine Mathematics''' was published in Issue 52 of ''[[Smokebox]]'' in April 2008, which was also my first ever magazine publication.
+Under its new name, '''Canine Mathematics''' was published in Issue 52 of ''[http://www.smokebox.net Smokebox]'' in April 2008, which was also my first ever magazine publication.
 I also included it in ''[[Verulam Writers' Circle]]'''s anthology [http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/jonathan-pinnock-editor/the-archangel-and-the-white-hart/paperback/product-15112636.html The Archangel and the White Hart]. I didn't originally want to include a piece by the editor, but I was overruled.

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 ===Notes===
-These notes are reproduced from a [http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/anatomy-of-a-flash/ blog post] I wrote on the development of this story for ''[[Flash Fiction Chronicles]]''.
+These notes are reproduced from a [http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/anatomy-of-a-flash/ blog post] I wrote on the development of this story for ''[http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/ Flash Fiction Chronicles]''.
 So where do stories come from? Good question—glad you asked.

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 I’d like to answer that by taking you through the process of developing one particular flash. The reason why I’ve chosen this one is that the process of creation took place over a very short time span (under an hour), so I can be quite precise about what was going on at the time.
-The piece in question, [[Canine Mathematics]], was created as part of a charity event held every year in aid of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_need BBC Children in Need] by ''[[Alex Keegan’s Bootcamp]]''. I’ve never been a member of ''[[Bootcamp]]'' (it’s not my kind of place), but I joined in with this as a visitor in 2007, basically because it seemed like a good opportunity to hang out with some of the cool kids in the playground. [[Canine Mathematics]] eventually got published in ''[[Smokebox]]'' (I wasn’t even aware of EDF back then). As it happens, it was my first-ever piece published on the internet, so I’ve got a lot of affection for it.
+The piece in question, [[Canine Mathematics]], was created as part of a charity event held every year in aid of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_need BBC Children in Need] by ''[[Alex Keegan's Bootcamp]]''. I’ve never been a member of ''[[Bootcamp]]'' (it’s not my kind of place), but I joined in with this as a visitor in 2007, basically because it seemed like a good opportunity to hang out with some of the cool kids in the playground. [[Canine Mathematics]] eventually got published in ''[[Smokebox]]'' (I wasn’t even aware of EDF back then). As it happens, it was my first-ever piece published on the internet, so I’ve got a lot of affection for it.
 The way the Children in Need event works is that you are sent a series of around 40 prompts every hour, and you then have an hour in which to produce a piece inspired by one or more of them. The event takes place over 30 hours, from Thursday at 6PM through to Friday midnight, with some people (sadly not including me) ploughing on right through Thursday night. There are also a couple of practice nights leading up to this, so by the time Friday evening comes along, I’m getting the idea of how it all works, and I’ve already produced one or two pieces that have worked reasonably well, although there are a whole load of others that have crashed and burned.

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 ===Performances===
-Along with [[Advice re Elephants]], this is another popular live piece that I've read many times. The first was at ''[[Sparks]]'' in Brighton on November 3rd, 2009.
+Along with [[Advice re Elephants]], this is another popular live piece that I've read many times. The first was at ''Sparks'' in Brighton on November 3rd, 2009.
 ===Notes===

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 ===Notes===
-I wrote a blog post on the development of this story for ''[[Flash Fiction Chronicles]]'' and I've reproduced it here:
+These notes are reproduced from a blog post I wrote on the development of this story for ''[[Flash Fiction Chronicles]]''.
 So where do stories come from? Good question—glad you asked.