When the story catches fire
From Neil Gaiman‘s Journal, on October 15, 2007: “The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and […]
What a difference a couple of years makes
I released my first story, Once A Hero, Always A Hero, in September 2012, after it’d been done for several months. Don’t ask. At the time, I thought it was pretty good. Not something I’d have given five stars if it was by anyone else, but certainly three or four. A few days ago, I […]
Work In Progress Meme
Apparently this was going around the, ahem, blogosphere a couple of years ago. I missed out as I wasn’t keeping a blog at the time. So I’ll do it now. If anyone cares, I shamelessly stole from three other author blogs I found fairly randomly. I have, at last count, twenty works-in-progress, but I’m only going […]
Interview with me
This is the final post in my countdown to the release of Jake’s Last Mission. I had some sort of brilliant idea, then I forgot it. Then I had another brilliant idea. I forgot it too. Lacking for brilliant ideas, I googled for advice. I can’t find the sites I found before I made the […]