Most days I receive am email from Squidoo that contains a link to their lens of the day, and nearly every day I delete the emails without even following the link. Sometimes though, my curiosity gets gets the better of me. Yesterday’s lens of the day was about writing fairy tales. I’ve never written a…
Category: Writing
A Long Time Coming
Today I received an email informing me that one of my short horror stories has been rejected. I just updated my database and realized that I submitted the story in December 2009. It seems a long time to have to wait for a rejection, but I’ve had stories that have been out for two or…
Well, I haven’t been blogging much lately. Did you notice? Did you miss me? I’ve been busy with a few things one of which was the second draught of this novel thingummy-jig that I have been trying to write. I’ve finished that now. Draught two ran to 54 000 words. I can’t even remember what…
Well, we’re already well into January and this is my first post. I’ve been pretty busy lately though, pretty tired too, and so it has been hard keeping up with everything. But that’s life I suppose. Ideally I would like to write a post every day, but, being realistic, I think I shall try to…
It’s been a while since my last post. I couldn’t think of anything interesting to write and I haven’t done anything particularly of note either. Just the same ever-old-day kind of stuff. I watched Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) again last week. I like that film and have seen it a few times. I checked up…
Hormones
Just thought I would let you know that the I Am This Meat e-anthology is now live, and (if you want to) you can read my story Hormones by clicking HERE. I’m afraid it isn’t a horror story though folks. All of the stories in I Am This Meat will also be available, at a…
One For The Writers of Flash
I don’t write a lot of flash fiction, but I do write it occasionally and a couple of days ago I discovered that there is a yahoo group for writers of flash. I noticed that the group sends out a newsletter and that the newsletter contains market listings. Like a lot of writers I am…
Worth Checking Out…
For a long time now I have been subscribed to the free Funds for Writers newsletter. It’s an interesting newsletter and contains a lot of useful information, a lot or which is about getting money into the pockets of writers. I will be honest here and tell you that the main thing that I look…
On Writing Horror: A Handbook From The Horror Writer’s Association
I received an email from the HWA earlier this week. Apparently the above book has just been updated. Bearing in mind that people that are not members of the HWA will probably not even have heard of the book, let alone that it has been updated, I thought that I would mention it here.
The Big Picture
Sometimes when I want to write a short story, I sit staring into space and trying to think of ideas, only the ideas won’t come. It’s like trying to do jigsaw. First you have to find all of the pieces, and then you have to decide how they are meant to fit together in order…