<Looks up from a pile of scribbles> What’s that? Oh yeah – I’m alive and I’m working hard on the latest revision of The Certainty of Dust which is now looking more like a novel. I’m just taking a very quick break from the word mines as I’ve received a little bad news about theContinue reading “Lock down head down”
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Remember me to one who lives there
Things have got weird but we always have stories right? And this unassuming set of tales is due to drop in a little less than 24 hours. It seems like a long time ago (it was) when we discussed these three anthologies from Grimbold Books (Lost Gods and Unexpected Heroines are also due out soon)Continue reading “Remember me to one who lives there”
Writing Retreats
I was going to blog about the recent writing retreat I attended but Chrissey Harrison did such a good job I’m just going to share hers here
Sound the Retreat!
This weekend I’ll be attending my first writing retreat (but not my last as I’m also booked onto Milford in September.) I’m not entirely sure what to expect but aim to create a revision plan for Certainty and write the first draft of at least 1 story for Museum (and maybe more!) as well asContinue reading “Sound the Retreat!”
Everything is banal and jejune (or what I learned about writing by growing a beard)
When my beard was short I got a lot of comments that I looked like this guy Last year I let my beard grow (mostly – it does get tidied now and then) And now I think I look like But what lots of other people think I look like I mean, obviously a lotContinue reading “Everything is banal and jejune (or what I learned about writing by growing a beard)”
So long 2019
This year was mainly filled with procrastination (although I am well on the way to having two books to hand in this year & I did edit an anthology but that won’t be out until next year either) so my round up is on my reading: So my goal was 5 books off the TBRContinue reading “So long 2019”
The dark half
And so Bristol Festival of Literature is mostly over – just 1 event left, a fringe one: Sky Light Rain in which Judy Darley will launch her latest collection and the great and good of Bristol’s Lit Scene will gather and chatter. BristolCon went past in a happy whirr – as usual I don’t feel that I didContinue reading “The dark half”
The Once and Future Con
Last weekend was the Clydebank FantasyCon (not Glasgow by any stretch) which was fantastic. It took place in a pretty weird hospital hotel – which, just like the Scarborough venue, would work as a horror film/book setting. I did some programming (Special thanks to Kit Power who organised Tales of the Dark which was a brilliantContinue reading “The Once and Future Con”
100 Days to Write a Novel Day 100
In a real way I’ve failed. I have a half novel, a novella, and not a novel at all. However, I’ve learned a few things – the most important of which is that I can’t write every day (even if I wanted to) and that some targets are millstones not milestones. The Certainty of DustContinue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel Day 100”
100 Days to Write a Novel Week Thirteen
The penultimate week The MS stands at a couple of hundred words less than 35k. But the work I’ve been doing on it this week isn’t really reflected in wordcount. I’ve been doing a lot of highlighting (what’s immediate scene, what’s narrative summary is one highlighted file. The different character’s dialogue is another) and markingContinue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel Week Thirteen”
