Hey folks. 2019 has almost reached its end, and oh boy has it been a year. The recent general election in the UK has cast something of a ghastly shadow over the year as a whole, and over the past few days I’ve been struggling to look past that, to […]
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Workshop Update 27/12/19
Hello friends! It’s that time of the month where I post a new piece of in-progress poetry for my lovely patrons, and in honour of the brisk winds a-blowing through the dark streets, this month’s working draft concerns itself with winter. It’s available to read right now in the Workshop, […]
Keep readingBack in the Chair: New Short Fiction
Hi! Just a brief post here from me, Alex, your friend, to let you know that there’s a new sci-fi short story of mine available to read on the internet at this very moment. The story’s called Back in the Chair, and I’ll admit that calling it ‘new’ is a […]
Keep readingFiction Annotated: Exposure
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Keep readingWorkshop Update 29/11/19
November is drawing to a close, and with it, NaNoWriMo nears its end. Am I on the final sprint towards the fifty thousand word goal? Or am I limping behind, the finish line still a distant glimmer on the horizon? I have no idea, because I’m writing this post a […]
Keep readingReading List: NaNoWriMo 2019
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Keep readingOut Now: Cursed Objects & Us
In July I announced that three friends and I were putting together and releasing a zine of art and poetry, with the proceeds going to the mental health charity Self Help. At the time I said the zine would be out before the end of the month, because oh boy […]
Keep readingThe Big 100 Reading Challenge: Eight Years Later
Hey! This post isn’t related to NaNoWriMo, this month’s defining project, but if you want to know how that’s getting along you can read my daily updates over on Patreon. Back in the youthful years of the yesterlands, I had a blog dedicated to book reviews, TV reviews, and long […]
Keep readingNaNo AutoBio, or: A Chronicle of Failure
Hey gang! It’s NaNoWriMo, or Alex Doesn’t Live Up To His Own Expectations Month, everybody’s favourite madcap dash to write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days. I’ve been participating in NaNoWriMo for eight years now (I think), and during that time I’ve taken many different approaches to the challenge. […]
Keep readingWorkshop Update 24/10/19
A second workshop update in a month? You thought it was impossible, and you were right. I caused significant damage to the underlying scientific principles which hold our universe together in order to make this update happen, so I can only hope you appreciate it appropriately. (This update constitutes me […]
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