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Why Did You Write That? Distant Machines interview
Distant MachinesPeter Lewis has very kindly interviewed me for his Why Did You Write That? blog.Why Did You Write That? is a blog that is intended to provide "a glimpse into the life and mind of your...
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Write what you know, even when it's about giant killer moths
When you start writing fiction one of the most common aphorisms that you're likely to hear is "write what you know". It makes sense, but I get the impression from a lot of what I read that people take...
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Syllable - Jess Chakravorty
My fellow Tunbridge Wells Writer Jess Chakravorty has a new website - Syllable - in which she is showcasing some of her poetry. I'm no poetry buff but I think she's really rather good, and I recommend...
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A sense of place - Tunbridge Wells Writers blog
I've just written a post over at the Tunbridge Wells Writers blog about locations in fiction:A sense of place - locations in fictionHead over there if you want to share your favourite fictional...
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Still, from Distant Machines
The following is one of the stories from my short story collection Distant Machines. I hope you enjoy it...Still It is not long dawn when the man comes. You see him before he sees you, but the light is...
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I don't know whether the plural of Bigfoot is Bigfoots or Bigfeet
Following on from 2011's Harlan Ellison-endorsed, charity-friendly Kindle All Stars short story anthology, in 2012 the Kindle All Stars will be putting together another anthology. The theme is...
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100WC #39 - Those Who Fail
100 Word Challenge #39Prompt: ....I'm exhausted. Shut the door behind you.... Those Who Fail“I’m exhausted.”“Shut the door behind you.”“What?” he says. The rain outside makes everything seem too close....
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100WC #40 - Jack
100 Word Challenge #40Prompt: RubyJack So I go to the basement where I know they'll bring you an it’s a filthy Dallas mornin an there’s pills in my belly an the ugly lil .38 snub in my pocket is black...
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100WC #41 - What Will Come
100 Word Challenge #41Prompt: [picture of bones]Under hedges laid like rope the sleeping giants lie. Washed and buried these ancients wait, silenced by time and lost in stories of the past. Above them...
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Three new Tunbridge Wells Writers
I met three new writers from Tunbridge Wells last night. Daniel Huckfield is writing a biography of 19th century Tunbridge Wells-based blasphemer, anarchist and gramophone entrepreneur Henry Seymour,...
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100WC #42 - In Absentia
100 Word Challenge #42Prompt: piece must contain the words 'liberty', 'empire', 'apple', 'yellow' and 'enormous'I watch the television from the hotel bed, my yellow robe pulled tight. The sun here is...
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100WC #43 - A Child Of Fire
100 Word Challenge #43Prompt: ...the flame flickered before...It was the only thing that he truly understood. Something that he had created, that he had brought to life from phosphorous, wax and...
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Restoration Man free for one week
My short story The Restoration Man will be available free, gratis and for nothing on Amazon for one week from Monday. One working week, that is. Five days. So why not download it and read it and...
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100WC #44 - Liz
100 Word Challenge #44Prompt: Write a poem. It doesn’t have to rhyme or be specifically about the Monarch but it should capture the passing of sixty years.Though union flags are hanging up in windows...
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Like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD
It struck me today that I am currently spreading myself rather thin when it comes to writing. I am like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD as far as writing is concerned, always impatient to get...
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100WC #45 - The Age Of Austerity
100 Word Challenge #45Prompt: There's a real buzz about this placeGrimed windows, thick with dust, a door restrained by nails and wood. Stubborn prongs of weeds forcing slow cracks in mortar. Scabs of...
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The Pélissier Scroll
One day, long ago, when the Earth was younger and the heavens held fewer stars, the great god Ehu brought forth two sons. One he named Isham, and to him he gave dominion over the world of the living,...
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100WC #46 - PVS
100 Word Challenge #46Prompt: ...in the dark recess of my mind...They talk about me all the time. They think I can’t hear them. They think I’m gone for good, but I’m not. I just can’t come back.This is...
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100WC #47 - And finally...
100 Word Challenge #47Prompt:A garage that supplies drinks instead of fuel has caused bemusement among drivers. The three pumps, which deliver tea, coffee and milk, have flummoxed motorists, many of...
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TWELF Night
I haven't been writing much on here lately, but that's because, as I said not long ago, I have been like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD as far as actual real writing is concerned.Plus there's...
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