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Onwards and upwards…

My ‘onwards and upwards’ plan (not so much a plan as a hope-really-good-things-happen-for-no-reason kind of deal) is in full effect. I may not have got as much writing done as I wanted to in January, but that’s because I was…

La Mustelidae Nostra

For Kevin Hill: Otter looked around to check he was alone before pulling out his new Bowie knife. The dealer had given him a great deal on the blade. He smiled as the sun reflected off the cool steel. A…

The end is nigh!!

Sorry, Churchill you were wrong. This IS the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end of my novel’s plot that is…or so I thought. Now I like endings, to me the ending is the most important part of…

Operation: STFUSWDITW

  “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby   For the purposes of this post I’m going to completely bastardise the above quote and apply the term everybody…

Camp Failure…

I logged on to the Camp NaNoWriMo website today and a new ‘camp news’ post was up: If you’re sticking to the daily target of 1,612 words per day, you should be approaching 13,000 words. Phew, good job I’m keeping…

Appy-polly-loggies…

…I was supposed to be keeping you up to date with my progress on Camp NaNoWriMo. With original NaNo I regularly updated my blog with ‘interesting’ and ‘useful’ articles on my progress and posts about reaching word counts and keeping…

Camp NaNoWriMo

Holy crap donkeys on radioactive scooters from Pluto! It’s the official start of Camp NaNoWriMo!! Yeah, I know…what kind of mad bastard would not only take part in the original NaNo but also complete 50,000 words in a month in…

Bump in the Night

Check out the fine specimen of a writer who features as the June Guest Writer over on The Flash Fiction Offensive. Yep, that’s right…it’s me! My story, Bump in the Night, is now online and ready to read. A horror…