He writes, he reads, he loves
Got my hands full Hey space cadets, I'm kind of distracted right now because I'm working on my pitch/application for the Wheeler Centre's Hot Desk Fellowship, a great program where the Centre gives writers a desk, a quiet space and a thousand bucks and asks only that they knuckle down and write in return. If that sounds cool, you should apply for consideration, as they have several slots...
The winner takes it all Hey folks. Last weekend - using 'weekend' as a synonym for 'Monday night' because shut up - I talked about writing stories about failure, or that drove towards failure. You know, the sorts of stories that most people don't want to read. What do people prefer? Stories about success, unsurprisingly; stories about protagonists who overcome conflicts and succeed at their...
Fail to win, win to fail No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful No, I'm not depressed (I'm pretty much never depressed), nor am I quoting They Might Be Giants lyrics just because I saw them live earlier this month (an excellent gig). It's just that I've been thinking about failure, as I am often wont to do,...
Don't read this post Just keep walking. Don't stop here. This is bat country. ...come on, you know I never write anything worthwhile on a Thursday night. Instead, go read one (or more) of these awesome things. Author Peter Ball is liveblogging the progress of his new urban fantasy novella Claw (sequel to Horn and Blood) and it's a fascinating look at the writing process. Peter...
Fight fight fight In Sean Howe's fascinating book Marvel Comics: the Untold Story there's a bit about Chris Claremont, whose seminal run on Uncanny X-Men defined pretty much the entire superhero genre in the 1980s. Apparently Claremont was completely disinterested in the action elements of the comic, usually letting artist John Byrne take charge of those with a note like 'fill three pages...
Category : obituarist
A very short blog update
I finished the draft of The Obituarist.
I feel that this gives me the right to slack off, hang out and play Mass Effect 3 for the rest of the day, rather than writing any more about anything.
Will be back in a few days.
