Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Friday, February 8th, 2019
Have spent every spare minute over the past few weeks thinking and sketching out a plot for a big, complicated novel I’ve been desperate to write. It covers two worlds and three timelines, and it combines all the things I love about ghost stories and haunted houses with everything weird in science fiction, and a [...]
Tags: books, fear, novel, shitty first drafts, stupid ridiculousness, writer's block, writing, writing is rewriting
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Friday, February 1st, 2019
Well, maybe not all of us, but definitely meeeeeeeeeee! “Her Bones the Trees,” my blood-soaked, bear-infested, twisted Twin Peaks fan fiction is to be reprinted in acclaimed literary horror magazine THE DARK. Looking forward to sharing this story with more readers.
The story was originally published as “Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees,” [...]
Tags: collection, editing, short stories, the dark, the silent garden, undertow, writing, writing is rewriting
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
Delighted to share the news that my debut collection, THIS HOUSE OF WOUNDS, is being published by the extraordinarily brilliant Undertow Publications, and should be out within the next few months. There are a number of new, previously unpublished stories in there, which I’m super excited about. But the book also collects some of [...]
Tags: books, collection, reading, short stories, short story, writing
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2018
No one is brilliant the way the author/recorder of these stories, Des Lewis, is brilliant. I thought I’d try to gestalt-real-time-dream-catch-review ‘The Big-Headed People’ but found myself instead foundering, sunk by the weight of these stories, through the floor and into the basement and then somewhere underneath that opened up into great vistas of strange [...]
Tags: books, collections, des lewis, reading, real-time review, review, short stories, writing
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017
You know it’s time to start writing your book when words bleed through the palms of your hands, in mirror writing, and lightning sparks from your fingertips. It’s one of the more obvious symptoms.
I’ve been dreaming of this book for a very long time. It’s just a book. But like dreams, it makes [...]
Tags: books, dreams, novel, plotting, pretentious rambling, writing
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
We would like to make it clear that the clown problem has been effectively neutralised. Clowns have been eradicated from our towns, cities, and countryside.
Should you see a clown, please report to the authorities immediately, in order that you can be inoculated against further sightings.
In the event that you repeatedly see clowns that [...]
Tags: clown sightings, clowns, personal, short stories, writing
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Saturday, December 31st, 2016
Because books didn’t let us down in 2016. Books didn’t allow Poundshop Cruella to take over the UK. Books didn’t elect Dipshit McHairdo as US president. Books didn’t exacerbate and instrumentalise divisions between people. Books didn’t conspire with evil dictators around the world to usher in a new age of fascism.
Because books are good.
Tags: books, brilliance, novel, reading, reviews, talent, women, writing
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
Now that fcon is well and truly over, convention dictates that I should write a blog post in which I drop the names of all the groovy people I met in Scarborough and talk about the cool stuff we did together… or at least the cool stuff we did near each other, or the [...]
Tags: blogging, books, brilliance, inspiration, novelists, short stories, weird, women, writers, writing
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
1: Start writing. An idea is not necessary at this stage.
2: Keep writing. Pay no attention to mundane matters such as plot, character, setting, structure, or story. Just keep writing words until you have around half a million of them.
3: Now take those half a million words and throw. them. away.
4: Stare [...]
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