B is for back story
Sin #1: Incorrect use of back story Unless your book opens with a birth scene then your character will most definitely have a back story. They’ve been around longer than five minutes and will have done and seen a lot of…
Steven
A is for Aggggggghhhh!!
For every looming deadline, missed target, failed word count, grammatical error and even that bloody time when you just can’t think of another word for “…..”. Aggggggghhhh!! It’s the best way to explain that overwhelming sensation when you feel like…
Lily Childs, nominated for Spinetingler Award!!
Lily Childs, an excellent horror writer (and web friend of mine) has just had one of her stories (Carpaccio) nominated for the 2011 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story on the Web. I’m not jealous…at all….*wahhhh* But in all seriousness she…
The Trough of DOOM™
I’m hitting that dreaded point again… The trough of doom…no that doesn’t sound right. The depression of depression? The low of lowness? Ok, sod it I’m sticking with The Trough of DOOM™ You know how it is being a writer…
Hooooooooooooooowl!!
The recent moon perigee was too good of an opportunity to miss out on, photographically speaking, so when I popped over to my Dad’s on Saturday he couldn’t help but take some amazing shots of Taz (my very own werebeast).…
Zombie Week 2011: Final day!
Zombies, zombies everywhere and not a brain to chew… Thank you to everyone who had commented on my blog this week, it was great to get some feedback on certain elements on the zombie worlds…and now for something really boring!…
Thank sweet zombie Jesus it’s Friday!!
Animal zombies! Cheesy or just harmless fun? Well I suppose a zombie bear would be pretty scary, but a zombie tortoise would just be plain funny. Imagine an already painfully slow creature struck down with stiff bloodless limbs. It would…
Thursday of the dead
Back to the mechanics of my novel today and a little rant about plot vs. characters. I never really liked the idea that a book was character driven OR plot driven. It’s a common idea in the writing community but…
Midweek zombie goodness: Wednesday
So we’ve covered traditional vs. ‘wacky’ zombies, scientific explanations, weapons, the realm of believability, rotten ‘jelly’ like corpses chasing you down the street and even the best gravy to serve brains with…apparently its milk gravy! Now I’d like to move…