Time marches inexorably onwards, and February is nearer its end than its beginning. As I mentioned in my previous workshop post, my goal for February is to have four new patron-exclusive posts up before the end of the month, to make up for January being a barren, lifeless time. This […]
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Tales from the Shipwreck (i)
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Keep readingOne Hundred Failures
Part of being a writer is learning to deal with failure. Failures come in all forms and contexts, of course, but I’ve found that for a writer the most common and most keenly-felt form of failure is rejection. Whether you write poetry, prose, screenplays, scripts, or pretty much anything else, […]
Keep readingWorkshop Update 05/02/20
Hello friends. As I mentioned in my last patreon update (and as you may have been able to tell by the state of the site this month), I haven’t been keeping up with the old Content Machine. That’s a habit I want to knock on the head going forwards, so […]
Keep reading2019 Retrospective
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 […]
Keep readingWorkshop 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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