At a write-in with parlance right now, and have a decent amount of plot and structure worked out for the 30K novel that I intend to complete before NaNo. It's called 1000 Butterflies: a serial killer stalks the city's transient refugee population, burying his victims in shallow graves and enacting elaborate funerals. I've been looking for an interesting ( Read more... )

I don't know why I'm only owning up to this now but writing -- the thought/the act itself -- is scaring me shitless ( Read more... )

And dearie me, I can't believe what I managed last year. It is unbelievably, laughably bad. I'm reading the first three chapters (ten more to go, whee!) and so far ( Read more... )

From The Times Online: Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales. This is the bleak forecast of the Society of Authors, which represents more than 8,500 professional writers in the UK and believes that the havoc caused to the music business by ( Read more... )

For Day 1 I've written the first three scenes. Yesterday, I wrote an additional two scenes. I won't be posting the last two, so don't worry ( Read more... )

Ed Reardon's back on Radio 4! Granted, it's a repeat of the last series but I'll take 'em however they're dealt.

I'm sure my English prof would be horrified to learn I've switched my idolation to a grumpy fictionalised freeloading writer who rails against the 12-year olds of the world and never seems to catch a break. He was similarly distressed ( Read more... )

Just walked in through the door, still huffing and puffing from the freezing uphill run to the house. Had one heck of a busy day today. I wasn't even thinking of going out  - Hollywood was too far to go for a protest and I really hated the traffic getting there. Then late last night I was browsing scans_daily when someone mentioned Newsrama (ie news for ( Read more... )

Oh shit. What have I gotten myself into? 

Woo! A Flash Fiction contest recently posted at
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Bloody hell, Clinton's got some fight left in her. The bloody cheek of the woman, saying she'd agree to have Obama as her VP candidate. Still you have to admit, it's pretty gutsy :D

An e-mail from my boss came in today. It's pretty much over. HR won't rehire me and I'm left out to dry. Although, and Boss couldn't guarantee, I may be transferred to ( Read more... )