Out of breath, slick with sweat, fringe plastered to my forehead, I doggedly sprint towards making a blog post in a timely manner. Not yet, I say out loud and also in italics, but soon. If you aren’t familiar with #vss365 already, I wrote an introductory post about it here; […]
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Workshop Update 09/10/19
I’m still playing a little bit of catch-up with my patron-exclusive posts, but not for much longer! Today’s workshop update started life a good four or five years ago, now, as the end product of a music-themed freewrite I scribbled out whilst I was an undergraduate. I was never happy […]
Keep readingWriter’s Notes: The Chwedyk Experiment
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Keep readingWorkshop Update 29/09/19
I said on twitter I was aiming to get three new pieces of patron content up on the blog before the end of the month, and this is Thing Number One: an update to the workshop! I’m planning on doing an additional update very soon, to make up for the […]
Keep readingFiction Annotated: Écorché
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Keep readingWorkshop Update 08/08/19
My workshop update for July is a little late this month, hence it coming out more than a week into August instead of, as you might expect, July. But! Hopefully that can be compensated for with the fact that this is a more unusual, and slightly larger, update than you […]
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Hi guys! As you may have already heard, I’ve been writing (or attempting to write) twitter-friendly prompt-inspired microfictions every day for the last month as part of the #vss365 project. I’m enjoying this exercise a lot, and plan to continue doing it as often as I can, but it seemed […]
Keep readingNew Release: Bones of God
It’s the middle of the evening and you’re alone in the house. You’re on the couch, in front of the TV, remote dangling in your loose grip. You’re watching Love Island, I think. Suddenly I rise seamlessly through the floor, the carpet undulating like the surface of a pool, and […]
Keep readingPoetry Annotated: Ticking Over
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Keep readingSite Update: New Artefact + More Poetry
Good morning! I’ve been adding a few things to the site, so here’s a quick summary of what’s new around these parts. First off, the three poems I made available through Places of Poetry the other week are now also accessible through the site’s poetry section for posterity, so you […]
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