Here’s my attempt for this week’s Fiction Friday challenge on the Write Anything blog, also submitted to the Friday Flash collection. The prompt was; Pick two established characters, either from your own work or others’. Now write the scene/story of their meeting. I decided to go with Commander Melissa Hunt and Dawkins, from my current […]
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Blog Awards
The very super Gracie Motley has been kind enough to give me these two awards, and it’s now my duty to follow the rules and pass them on to others! Unfortunately I can’t give them back to her, which is a shame as she’s lovely, but I shall endeavour to do my best. The Versatile Blogger […]
The Silence and the Noise
Listen! You miss the silence when you live in a city. Noise surrounds you, pressing in on you, constantly swaddling you in a shroud of sound. Babies cry, competing with too-loud TVs, while phones ring and sirens scream and people shout to be heard. The sound muffles the real world, as our world becomes what […]
Polly Wants A Cracker!
For this week’s Friday Flash, I’ve returned to Captain Scarlight and Methuselah, his telepathic parrot. They made their first debut last month, in Pieces O’ Eight. * * * The parrot sailed into the room, riding the breeze from the open window. Sunlight played across the scattered empty bottles, turning the floor into a stained […]
Smashwords vs Scribd
One of many things that I love about the blogosphere is that it promotes discussion, and information sharing. People with experience and knowledge can pass it on to others, who can then in turn pass it on again. Some people already know that the first phase of my web serial, Tales from Vertigo City, […]
Waging War on the Editing Demon
Back in November 2008, I finished writing my first novel. I already had two unfinished novels to my name, but I have to give some credit to NaNoWriMo for impelling me to actually get to ‘The End’ – without the daily ‘deadlines’ required to make the minimum 50,000 words by the beginning of December, I […]
