Friday marked the fourth flash adventure of Captain Scarlight and his telepathic parrot, Methuselah. A couple of people have asked me if I intend to turn their tales into a serial, and in a word, the answer is no. I already have my serial project in the form of my (occasionally “too-big-for-me”) project, Tales from […]
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Spoken Sunday – Not For Sale
Listen! This is Not for Sale, which was also my Friday Flash for this week, which you can read here! Apologies for the dreadful Jamaican accent…
Friday Flash – Not For Sale
Yes, Captain Scarlight and Methuselah have decided to take over my blog again. This particular flash was inspired by this week’s writing prompt by Eric J. Krause – “A strange website promises something (good fortune? Unending power? Never-ending riches?)”. No, the Captain doesn’t have Internet access, but it was still an inspirational prompt… * * […]
The Impending End of The First Tale part 1
Commander Liss Hunt, Vertigo City Resistance On Saturday 20th February, 2010, I posted the first instalment of my very first web serial, The First Tale. I had no idea where it was going to go, or that a name I chose entirely off the top of my head was going to give birth to a […]
Icy’s Guide to writing Historical Fiction
Having read the excellent guest post by the equally excellent Carrie Clevenger over at Write Anything about writing historical fiction, I thought I might take the time to sit down, and have a bit of a chat about my own process. Lately I’ve been basing some flashes on local legends or historical anecdotes, and I’ve […]
Track Your Writing Progress
Last week, I posted an entry about making your own motivation to write. I feel like I possibly left things hanging, as I missed out two of the Internet-based tools for helping you to write, for both keeping you motivated and keeping track of your progress. How remiss of me! So here I am, on […]
