30 days
50,000 words
November 2013
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Second draft complete!
Wow, it’s taken a few months but my second draft – otherwise known as getting it all typed up – of my short story collection is finally finished!
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Fantasy is a dirty word?
I write a fair bit of fantasy, and have read an awful lot as well. I never understood why people think that ‘genre’ fiction is lower quality than ‘literary’ fiction. Small mindedness and ignorance maybe?
Criminally good books
I’ve just finished reading a couple of good books:
Silent Witnesses
Nigel McCrery
and
The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton
And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press
Jeremy Clay
Cold Summer
Second Attempt. Lets hope it saves what I write this time.
Yesterday I had another band follow me on Twitter, a post-hardcore quartet from Wakefield called
Cold Summer
I knew it was a bad idea to start writing about the bands that follow me on Twitter
Because another band has followed me. Once I start something I have to carry on. Plus I like helping people. So despite my reservations, I’m going to write about the latest band to follow my Twitter account.
Why we read
‘Take Courage’ by The First: a release day review
The last time I posted I wrote about another band that had followed me on Twitter and mentioned they had a new album out today. While I was scrolling through Twitter this morning I saw a tweet from the band and thought I’d see if I could find the album on Spotify.
I was in luck.
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