Yep I failed to make my word count of 90, 000 but I did make it over the 75 K mark which I consider to be fantastic and then some! I also basically now have 2/3rds of a novel that needs re-writing and editing into shape (plus some research and the sorting out of who […]
Emma, felt a bit stupid over her over reaction but then it was part of her training to think like that. Her eyes were starting to feel gritty with tiredness again, she still hadn’t gone through the ‘kitk that the Arcetect had put into her bag. The Super was looking super stressed and he glared […]
Emma was in the police car before thoughts could process what was going on, some one was frantically radioing and there was chaos around her. It was then she realised someone was down in the street, ‘shit’ she muttered and went to get out. ‘Don’t!’ came the urgent call from the police man on the […]
Rob was evidently embarrassed about having passed out, it had ended up in a huge feasco with ambulances and hospitals. He felt numb, he felt icy cold, he needed to find her and he was ignoring the obvious. He couldn’t face that no not yet not ever. Christine was a pain sometimes, when she got […]
Yesterday I went to my first ever writers retreat, a one day affair run by [Writing Space Stroud](http://writingspacestroud.wordpress.com/). It was held at the [Stroud Valley Artspace](http://www.sva.org.uk/) which is a little tucked away set of studios and performance space. I arrive about 10 minutes early in the fear of not being able to locate it but […]
It was unsuprisingly drizzling again when Emma emerged from a small green door in the side of a hospital. The tunnel network The Arcetect had set up was fantastic, he maintained he had worked with what was there but others had told her they had seen his mark carved into the stone work at the […]
Emma awoke with a headache the size of a small planet, it thumped and pulsed and flashed steely knives, she groaned or at least her body tried too, a rasp of air was all that escaped. Her throat felt raw. It tasted worse. Her eyes were filming but a couple of gritty blinks and she […]
It was 3 in the morning Rob was sniverling again the other two could hear him, Megan wasn’t quiet sure why she still had the boys around her place, she’d been spooked by the police womans words and Adele had phoned her and said she wouldn’t be around for a week or so. She knew […]
Professor Atkins stood infront of the stick thin man who seemed to be made all of joints jutting out at angles. He looked so young probably the same age as his grandson. It made it more annoying to think that he once looked like that himself though not with the huge whole in his ears […]
I dislike the concept of genres as boxes that stories have to be shoe horned into and think of them more as end members on phase diagrams with the story occupying some area between the points, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. No story is ever just one thing. So […]