I recently read Alan Garner’s The Stone Book Quartet. It was an incredible experience. I read it in an afternoon, sitting in the kitchen with the dog asleep at my feet, and rain beating against the window. Not that I was aware of my surroundings for long. The voices in those pages spoke directly to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘stories’
making strange
Monday, May 7th, 2012Tags: Alan Garner, books, brilliance, craft, reading, stories, writing, writing advice
Posted in Blog | 1 Comment »
the illustrated dreams of the editor
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Got my contributor’s copy of Dark Tales XV in the post this morning, thank you very much.
My story is blurbed on the back – go me! It’s called ‘The Illustrated Dreams of the Ancestors’ and it’s a ghost story set in a small town in Okinawa. I lived in this small town for a [...]
Tags: dark tales, editing, magazines, stories, submissions, writing
Posted in Blog | No Comments »
Archived
- May 2013 (3)
- April 2013 (1)
- March 2013 (3)
- February 2013 (2)
- January 2013 (2)
- December 2012 (4)
- November 2012 (5)
- October 2012 (5)
- September 2012 (2)
- August 2012 (1)
- July 2012 (4)
- June 2012 (2)
- May 2012 (5)
- April 2012 (2)
- March 2012 (2)
- February 2012 (6)
- January 2012 (6)
- December 2011 (3)
- November 2011 (17)
- October 2011 (11)
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (5)
- July 2011 (1)
- June 2011 (1)
Search
Tag Soup
Alan Garner
blogging
books
Bridport Prize
brilliance
cats
cat world
characters
courage
dark tales
dogs are the best
dreams
editing
fear
hallucination
inspiration
interzone
language
lurgy
magazines
Murakami
novel
novelists
personal
plotting
present tense
professional
reading
reviews
setting
shitty first drafts
short stories
stories
stupid ridiculousness
submissions
talent
technology
time management
walking
women
writer's block
writers
writing
writing advice
writing is rewriting
Recent Comments
- george on here i am
- Hannah on here i am
- Phillip Spencer on what i know
- Henry on what i know
- george on what i know