This year I am once again planning to take part in GothNoWriMo, I am aiming for 50, 000 words this time but may have to do it all in long hand – boo hiss. This is mainly due to me having spilt coffee in my laptop and it being in for repair 🙁 I have […]
It is October the first just and before I begin there are a few things I need to get straight in my head – like what style I am writing in. I’m going to go for the slightly archaic feel but not using oldy woldy language but it will no doubt be too heavy on […]
I decided in the end that I will probably just sort of work my way through the list so I am starting with Dark Fearies. I am thinking that it is going to be a sort of teen novel but this depends just how dark and twisted it ends up. I’m thinking of calling it […]
Been thinking up more ideas 🙂 6) The Diaries 7) Jewellery From a Stranger 8) Space Milk 9) Tendrils of Love 10) Elements of Hate These are basically titles unlike the first five which were concepts – though often I find the two overlap. I’ve been wondering on which story to take forward and how […]
I’ve been letting the ideas incubate – and they are growing. 1) Dark Fearies – wonderfully crafted metal and laquer fairies appear to be coming to life and terrorising a family. 2) Daemons – a love story across worlds, dimensions transcending good and evil and light and dark (an expansion on a short story I’ve […]
I have decided to do GothNoWriMo again this year – the challenge I have chosen this year is to write 30, 000 words of a dark or gothic piece of fiction. I am going to start by brain storming and thinking on story line this month and writing in ernest next month. Ideas so far: […]
I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of fairy tales as a sort of reference for story ideas. 1. Little Red Ridding Hood 2. Billy Goat Gruff 3. Cinderella 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. Sleeping Beauty 6. Repunzel 7. The Magic Cooking Pot 8. Rumple Stiltskin 9. Goldy Locks […]
Just thinking on what I said last week – the concept of sweet nice wish granting fairies came from the Victorians before that they were spiteful, mischeavious and often deadly. I’m thinking on working on my own set of fea pictures including ones with tails and horns ie taking them back to a more elagent […]
The world of Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes are a rich source of the darkly horrifying. One of the things I would love to do is write a series of dark fairy tales – as in take the traditional stories and turn them into an intense rollercoaster of imagery and the like. Think of Little […]
When writing horror, or dark fantasy I like to listen to people like Tori Amos, Nick Cave, P J Harvey, God Speed You! Black Emperor and Cradle of Filth. This is along with things like the Solaris sound track, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd plus some of the more dramatic classical pieces. I find music […]