I find it hard to believe that two months have passed since my last journal entry. There is so much that has happened.
I have finished a first-draft which describes an event in Gouta's quest to find a new home and family. It is currently 4,850 words long...
I am delighted to announce that my first published short story (a scifi "drabble" of only 560 words) appears in Nebula Tales Issue 3, available on Amazon ...
I have started a new episodic series - "The Battle Hymn of the Asbahri", which is a tale of Science Fiction, set in the technological and militarised world of Asbah ...
My Critiques Partner (PC Darkcliff, a published novelist of dark fantasy) has persuaded me to help him create an anthology of fantasy short stories, and I must say it has been a lot of fun getting the project off the ground ...
This one-off story exists as a very rough first-draft of 5,400 words (400 too long). This is the piece I hope to submit for the as-yet-unnamed-anthology ...
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Today, I made the difficult and heartbreaking decision to kill one of my darlings. Following so soon after its conception, the murder will only require a single cut; it will be quick and painless (though not for me).
I am talking, of course, about ...
February was a busy month, what with two shows to perform in and a holiday. How much writing did I do? None. Zero. Rien du tout. Nichts. Nada.
Am I writing now, in March? Yes ... in the word’s widest sense. I am enjoying an imaginative time working on the outline for The Orison.
I now know...
Allow me to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin…
I will always celebrate the anniversary of Wednesday 16th January 2019. An auspicious day for me.
Why?
Well, bear in mind I am a newbie writer who spent the whole of 2018 learning how to write a short story that was finally well-received by Beta Readers. A year previously, my first group of readers condemned my writing as 'unfit for human consumption' (my words, not theirs).
Keep that in mind while I tell you that early in the afternoon on said Wednesday, I saw a ...