“Got a monkey on my back. Got a monkey on my back. Gonna change my ways tonight. Nobody’s fault but mine.” Same shit, different day – lack of motivation, writer’s block, lazyarseitis…whatever you call it, I haven’t worked on anything…
EdgeLit is tomorrow, and it’s fair to say I’m a little excited! I haven’t seen any of the usual crowd since 2015, barring bumping into Adam Nevill at Sci-Fi Weekender (Mar 2016). It’s been far too long, dudes! Apologies in advance…
I still suffer from this problem, [spoiler] even as I’m telling you it’s a bullshit problem [/spoiler]…but I’m working on it. Whenever I have a “strange” idea (most days), I first cackle to myself, then scribble it down somewhere (notebook,…
I’ve got a confession to make… I haven’t read a book for a while now. My head is too noisy to concentrate on the words and I can’t seem to keep it quiet enough to steer my mind away from…
It’s been a while since the Case of the Missing Chunks…and even longer since my last semi-decent post (YMMV) – so it’s time to sling some words around and update the three or four people that stumble across this site…
Following on from my last post where I detailed the tragic loss of THOUSANDS of words for a story that was due TWO DAYS after the loss, I’m happy to say the story is complete. It’s a bag of dog…
Seriously, before you read this post…find your latest novel/short/poem/screenplay and hit SAVE! Hit it multiple times, hit it with vigour and purpose, hit it with a large tree branch ripped from the nearest Larch! Don’t do that last one, it will…
My first FCon was in 2013 – which happened to be World FantasyCon, so I had to hit the ground running with a hell of a lot more authors than normal (pesky international buggers as well!) – I was terrified,…
I submitted my latest short story the other week (to non UK people “the other week” can mean anything up to ten years ago), and it felt…well, kind of anticlimactic. I even managed to stop hitting refresh on my emails…