It is the end of 2010 and I am quiet happy with what I have achieved in a writing type of way. But the turning of the year can be a dark time and so offer itself up to the ministrations of the writer. I love starting write just after midnight and on through till […]
[Fantasy Worlds](http://turquoise.monsters.wigglypets.co.uk/?p=132) is another of my WoPoWriMo efforts and brings in some interesting concepts of what fantasy actually is. These can be used in writing, sparking off the horror and darkness of our own world either internal or external.
Christmas can be a fantastic source of material to write dark stories from. All the light and glitz over lays old and ancient ways when things where not so clean and nice. Add in the fact that sometimes the twee little elves look rather sinister anyway.
[Bust](http://turquoise.monsters.wigglypets.co.uk/?p=163) is a poem I did for the WoPoWriMo challenge and it is full of the sad longing, of pathos, of the things that I feel good gothic novels need. Plus the imagery can be used to write from.