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Plotline thoughts for Nanowrimo
I’ve been using this morning to go for long walks down to harass the bank over money they owe me (seems only fair) and try to go to the library (only to find its closed on Mondays) and along the way...
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A quick Update
So yes, here we are – November and Nanowrimo has begun – my profile page there is http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/ludd72 and should be reflecting the word count as I remember to update and...
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Busy day
So, my daughter is staying over this weekend – and its also just been t’other half’s birthday so we’ve been dotting around the place a bit. Small’s riding lesson had her on possibly the most grumpy and...
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Snarky day
Ever get the feeling you’re having one of those days and just haven’t recognised it yet? I’ve just written this and felt faintly pleased even while wondering quite where it came from: A car pulled up...
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Catching up with myself
So I’m still working away at the Nanowrimo insanity, and noticing two things – firstly that things are starting to come together plot-wise, which is good, and that I really do need to keep writing by...
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Nearing the Finishing Post
November is slipping away, and I’m taking a brief pause from the writing to, um, write here instead – mainly because I need a break from writing about werewolves and ghosts for five minutes while the...
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Autumn’s Teeth – Synopsis and Extract
This is the synopsis and extract I posted on the Nanowrimo website while writing. I’ll be putting up the first three chapters as a pdf on this site in a few days probably – mainly as its an extract...
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Quick Fiction: Waiting to Start
This bubbled up this morning while I was emailing photography schedules to people and re-editing photos of paperweights: All lined up and ready to go. Suits pressed and shirts ironed; cravats are...
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Fiction Fragment
Somehow – in between writing blog posts about van solutions and click fraud detection and prevention – I’ve managed to scribble a few random passages down – so thought I’d share as they’re descriptive...
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Fiction: The Traffic Lights
The demonic traffic lights of Old Sunbury Town lie in wait, thirsty for the blood of unwary pedestrians. They lust for the fluids that soak into their darkly luxurious stretch of tarmac. Over the...
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Hollywood Reboots
The big bold trailer for the Robocop reboot is currently dominating my social media feeds, along with people complaining about how there’s no originality in Hollywood any more. The trailer does it’s...
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Some quick thoughts on writing
I got caught in the rain the other day while I was making my way home from work. “So what?” you say, “There’s a lot of it around”. Well aside from the inconvenience and very mild discomfort I...
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Roll20 Updates and Other Nonsense
I’ve been copying the Roll20 write-ups to their own section and as of this week will be updating those pages directly rather than tying up the more general blog – we’ve got all manner of oddness taking...
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Fiction Fragment: Roadside Carnage
I really do get the strangest ideas while driving around. This was inspired by someone I encountered while driving in West London today. I’ve no plans to expand it so I thought I’d just bounce it out...
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Fiction Fragment: Sassing An Angel
Wrote this recently as a block breaker: “I know I’m not the world’s greatest theologian,” Paul said, “but aren’t you guys supposed to be pants-wettingly awesome instruments of divine will whose first...
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Fiction Fragment: Board Meeting Announcement
Doodles and writing I’ve just been transcribing from my notebooks and found this scrawled next to a sketch of some kind of alien (nothing unusual about that if you’ve ever looked at my notebooks or...
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Fiction Fragment: Spiritual Language
This may or may not end up in the book somewhere but it works as a standalone rumination: There’s always seemed to be this strange belief that psychic ability conveys a Rosetta Stone style translation...
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Fiction Fragment: Black Dog Barking
It’s been, and continues to be, a rough few days. This just came boiling out in my notebook, and it works both as a block break and a semi-autobiographical vent: The black dog is barking, and it takes...
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One Sentence Stories
I’ve been writing one sentence stories recently as a combination of block breaking, getting random sentences out of my head, processing of memes, and putting story seeds that I might develop later down...
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Fiction Fragment: Spiritual Language
This may or may not end up in the book somewhere but it works as a standalone rumination: There’s always seemed to be this strange belief that psychic ability conveys a Rosetta Stone style translation...
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