Damien G. Walter

Tag: Arthur Quiller-Couch

Two. Four. Seven. More. How many stories are there?

Paulo Coelho, in amongst his thoughts on the insanity of SOPA, shares the idea that all writers are only recycling four stories. First, because all anyone ever does is recycle the same four themes: a love story between two people, a love triangle, the struggle for power, and the story of a journey. I [...]

e 01/22/2012
f Damien G Walter
4 On Writing & Publishing
JArthur Quiller-Couch, Christopher Booker, Conflict, Joseph Campbell, Monomyth, Paulo Coelho, Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Toy Story

e 01/22/2012
f Damien G Walter
4 On Writing & Publishing
JArthur Quiller-Couch, Christopher Booker, Conflict, Joseph Campbell, Monomyth, Paulo Coelho, Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Toy Story
b 12 Comments

This poem almost feels like Richard Gardner wrote it. I'm a good friend and not having read the orig ...

Lydia Towsey

2009-05-01 22:41:28

That's really beautiful, I'll have to look him up.

Kat

2009-04-21 21:53:39

I loved this one. Especially, "It is the beating heart of weirdness and fantasy." Well put.

megan

2009-04-19 08:52:31

So good to hear your voice! And Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" was my favourite short story back in ...

damiengwalter

2009-04-08 10:20:10

I gave up trying to argue that long ago. Sigh.

Sarah

2009-04-08 01:35:50

Oh, that is just fantastic! Congrats and good luck, hope it goes swimmingly. (Also ... you are now ...

Karla Keffer

2009-04-01 23:33:34

I'm sorry, Megan - I truly didn't mean to piss on your Nic Cage crush. I like him in Fast Times at R ...

Kat

2009-03-31 23:50:38

Thank God the instructors could cook. And so could we. I sort of feel like we should send a squid-fr ...

Steffi

2009-03-31 15:04:59

If I hadn't experienced Canyon Vista first hand, the idea of a $1000 Whole Foods gift certificate wo ...

megan

2009-03-31 07:25:52

For me, it was Matchstick Men. I loved him in that movie.

megan

2009-03-31 07:23:42

Hey, at least there's a Trader Joe's. TJ's was my savior. When I got home, I couldn't figure out w ...

Grá Linnaea

2009-03-31 01:51:52

Pack two ... and some vegetables ... pots and pans ... ... it would probably be best just have your ...

Karla Keffer

2009-03-30 18:06:01

We forgive him because he's a fucking Coppola! Oh, but we don't easily forgive Sofia Coppola for "T ...

damiengwalter

2009-03-30 12:40:48

Yes. Why is this the case with Nicholas Cage. He has spent a decade turning out ever more shody Holl ...

megan

2009-03-30 06:19:47

I have to admit to an odd, movie-going crush on Nicholas Cage. For some reason, I'm convinced that h ...

The Ferrett

2009-03-30 01:56:12

As Americans, we like seeing things blow up, but it's hard to get satisfaction from an explosion whe ...

icewolf9

2009-03-27 18:05:56

"Fall prey" instead? Excuse me for butting in.

Emma Lee

2009-03-25 21:57:19

If you've built up an audience (eg via a blog or on- or off-line networking) and have a marketing pl ...

The General Consensus on Self Publishing « The Sky’s the Limit

2009-03-25 20:58:47

[...] Speculative fiction author Damien G. Walter discusses the wisdom of self publishing in his po ...

Self-Publishing Review

2009-03-25 19:22:20

Great post. Each new sober-minded post about self-publishing helps people to understand its advanta ...

marina72

2009-03-25 14:41:09

I self-pubbed my first novel and don't regret it - what's crucial is to be clear what your aims are, ...

The Great Geek Manual » Geek Media Round-Up: March 24, 2009

2009-03-24 20:04:38

[...] Damien G. Walter ponders the question To self publish or to not? [...]

Ian Smith

2009-03-24 15:31:32

Whether you self-publish or not, you're up against marketing budgets, focus groups and a market and ...

Links and Things « Enter the Octopus

2009-03-23 15:44:16

[...] To self publish or not [...]

Dirty Baptist

2009-03-19 22:23:54

I read the title ‘Brokeback Tales’ but Thought ‘Brokeback Mountain. I thought you were going t ...

Dirty Baptist

2009-03-19 22:18:43

I’m straight as straight can be but I think if I meet Neil I would have to kiss him square on the ...

Karla Keffer

2009-03-19 17:17:41

Neil was outta sight. I don't think I've ever seen him wearing a white shirt. What a mind screw! H ...

Lucy

2009-03-17 10:40:08

Interesting. If a story is broken backed because the author doesn't have enough skill, might it be p ...

megan

2009-03-17 07:52:36

I like the stuff you say here. Am really tired, and so not capable of saying anything much more cohe ...

damiengwalter

2009-03-16 00:35:16

I think I might be scared to read Solstice again. Its tough to revisit stories from your youth, so m ...

Emilyon

2009-03-16 00:14:12

I just got ahold of Mirroshades via Dano (see comment above), and "Solstice" was the first story I r ...

Max Cairnduff

2009-03-13 20:55:49

That's actually rather renewed my interest in the sequels to Altered Carbon Dano, I had rather uncha ...

Dano

2009-03-13 19:54:04

There's no shame in hating Snow Crash, I don't think. No shame in hating Stephenson, really--the ma ...

Max Cairnduff

2009-03-13 13:08:11

Altered Carbon is definitely classic cyberpunk, to be honest, that's what I liked about it in part. ...

damiengwalter

2009-03-13 12:48:16

OK, I'm going to come clean and say it. I can't get into Morgan. Maybe I should try Broken Angels, b ...

Dano

2009-03-13 09:22:34

Mmm...I also have thoughts on cyberpunk being dated, and Richard Morgan especially. But alas, I hav ...

Dano

2009-03-13 09:19:54

Right there with ya on "Mirrorshades," Damien. A friend actually posed me the question last night o ...

Max Cairnduff

2009-03-11 17:24:20

I'm familiar with Charlie Stross, I've read some of his short fiction plus his Cthulhoid stuff, as w ...

damiengwalter

2009-03-11 17:15:55

Max Cairnduff - There is a lot of good stuff but not much of it bits the shelves of Waterstones. Cha ...

megan

2009-03-11 16:50:37

This is the sort of anthology that would have me nervously putting it back in place on the shelf in ...

Max Cairnduff

2009-03-11 16:19:35

By way of follow-up, I followed your links to refresh myself, I always rather liked The Gernsback Co ...

Max Cairnduff

2009-03-11 16:16:49

Bizzarely, the only story I recall was one about Mozart being somehow brought to the present, where ...

fullbodytransplant

2009-03-09 22:33:30

The comic book has a very different ending, including some seriously trippy tentacles: http://fullb ...

damiengwalter

2009-03-09 17:09:40

Drumroll please...............! And the winner is...EJ. And Dan. Yes, it was Do Androids Dream of E ...

E. J.

2009-03-09 06:22:36

I can't hold it in any longer. I think it was the PKD. Was it the PKD?

Karla Keffer

2009-03-09 03:56:57

Hmmm. And hmmm, again. Still skeptical, still don't want to pay $15 f@#king dollars to see any mov ...

damiengwalter

2009-03-02 12:29:38

Good guesses Dano. I'll wait to see if there are any other takers before revealing the answer.

Dano

2009-03-02 07:40:59

It could have been "Do Androids Dream..." too. But I'm going to stand by my guess of "Towing Jehova ...

Dano

2009-03-02 07:34:39

I don't think I was even there for that whole thing (though I think "Winter's Tale" might have been ...

E. J.

2009-03-01 23:04:15

"...prize..." Yay! "...who was not in the room..." Aw. Actually, I don't offhand remember which ...

Kat Richardson

2009-02-18 21:04:14

I got it last night after Ken's first signing. So far, shaping up to be everything you could expect ...

ohbutmeow

2009-02-10 15:35:43

This is awesome. And personally embarrassing, remembering all the times I gave up writing a story b ...

Nnedi Okorafor

2009-02-10 00:16:24

Here, here! I actually wish the two categories would stop steering at each other (Well, the literary ...

megan

2009-02-07 22:26:45

Have you listened to the one where he talks about how much he hates dancing? It's amazing.

Emilyon

2009-02-06 00:48:37

I had no idea Stephen Fry had a podcast, much less a series about travelling across America. How lo ...

Emily Jiang

2009-02-05 00:21:56

Technically 110 words! How fun. I've always thought "bulger" was a rather icky-sounding word.

ohbutmeow

2009-02-04 22:44:34

As an ailurophile, I must adumbrate, that cat is blandiloquent. (And I had no idea "zyzzyva" was a ...

megan

2009-02-04 08:02:42

I have just felt one hundred small shocks of delight.

Emily Jiang

2009-02-04 00:00:35

Wonderful, Walter! Yes, how can we get a copy?

I Owe Seven Links, I Owe Eight Links, I Owe Nine Links… | The Crotchety Old Fan

2009-02-03 12:52:13

[...] week, a lot of us were talking about it, prompted by Damien G. Walter’s entry in his blo ...

secretagentartist

2009-02-02 11:01:16

Well done.

megan

2009-02-02 03:38:30

Hang on, where can I buy this magazine? I want to read a Walter original.

damiengwalter

2009-02-01 13:31:58

Oh yes, this is what we need. Covert distribution of speculative fiction pamphlets via sneaker net!

damiengwalter

2009-02-01 13:29:06

Darn it. I'm just going to have to take up poetry.

pamthompsonpoetry

2009-02-01 09:20:59

Yep, it told me I should be a poet!

ohbutmeow

2009-01-31 22:39:21

I've been a fan of samizdat even since I was about seven and started making my own little books. Pre ...

ohbutmeow

2009-01-31 22:35:37

"Poets are both clean and warm and most are far above the norm." -Monty Python

Dirty Baptist

2009-01-31 20:02:26

No, Jo Twist, NO! There will be no swapping. The magic, all knowing quizmaster has spoken.

Jo Twist

2009-01-31 15:57:04

they told me I should be a science fiction writer ... maybe we should swap lives ...

Catching Up | The Crotchety Old Fan

2009-01-31 14:20:47

[...] Damien Walter comments on an article that appeared in The Guardian that discusses the dissing ...

Damien G Walter

2009-01-31 11:34:04

Nice to meet you Karla. Any friend of Dan's and all that. I thinkbthe zine space is going to be exci ...

ohbutmeow

2009-01-31 03:11:23

I've been thinking this may well be a good time for writers across all genres to start our own 'zine ...

Dano

2009-01-30 06:31:02

I tend to think that, tech-savviness notwithstanding, it's the subject matter of litfic that tends t ...

damiengwalter

2009-01-29 14:38:24

Good point Emily. but once the lit-fic crowd get oline, is there going to be any space left for them ...

Emily Jiang

2009-01-29 04:30:13

Great article, Damien. It is also possible that the popularity of specfic authors on the internet c ...

Dano

2009-01-29 02:39:28

Very well put. I think you're absolutely right.

Links for 28th January 2009 | Velcro City Tourist Board

2009-01-29 02:03:29

[...] Lit-Fic : the genre that dare not speak its name [...]

ohbutmeow

2009-01-28 19:40:51

Ooh. Didn't think about the italics. Is this film, in spite of itself, setting a precedent? They s ...

Posts about Ebooks as of January 28, 2009 | Sixways - Ebooks

2009-01-28 14:58:26

[...] industry. source: Wiley Download Free Ebook Sample … Books, Optical Communications, Eboo ...

Dano

2009-01-28 06:37:12

Hey, it's a flim title that has italics in it. That's a step forward, in a sense. Of course, that' ...

ohbutmeow

2009-01-27 18:18:09

Yeah, I think I could handle seeing "He's Just Not That Into You" with the aid of a bunch of like-mi ...

Emily Jiang

2009-01-27 16:08:05

The book is for single women and is technically nonfiction, a self-help dating guide whose premise a ...

megan

2009-01-27 07:55:22

Every time I must venture into the scary wilderness that is the "Relationships" section at the books ...

ohbutmeow

2009-01-27 05:24:28

The book made me want to pull my eyeballs out. The movie makes me want to drive hot arsenic-tipped ...

megan

2009-01-23 09:28:43

There was a woman who, as soon as she got off the plane at Heathrow, discovered that she was insatia ...

Adele

2009-01-21 14:45:18

I've become slightly obsessed with the whole sitemeter thing and finding out how people ended up on ...

damiengwalter

2009-01-13 19:55:22

Thank you Sarah. You see, I knew I had smart friends!

Sarah

2009-01-13 15:21:44

"So tief im Abendrot" -- I find that with translations it's a lot more useful to have a rough/messy/ ...

Kate Nash

2009-01-12 21:09:36

Gladiatrix by Russell Whitfield

damiengwalter

2009-01-07 01:13:28

Thanks Dirty Baptist. I may well do that.

Dirty Baptist

2009-01-07 00:54:59

Try Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok Banker. The first (and only, as far as I’m aware) epic fantasy ser ...

damiengwalter

2009-01-06 19:31:34

Seems I may secretly have been a dog person the whole time.

Emily Jiang

2009-01-06 09:40:55

You might appear to be a cat person, I think you're a dog person.

Kat

2009-01-06 02:15:21

If you do read "The Rhetorics of Fantasy," please let me know what you think. It's been on my maybe ...

ivoryfishbone

2009-01-05 20:23:04

mo says dog

megan

2009-01-04 09:12:50

oh, dogs all the way.

megan

2009-01-03 09:02:58

Our pianist played "Auld Lang Syne" at the end of ballet class yesterday. I might have gotten nostal ...

Anne Walls

2008-12-12 21:17:05

If you don't want to take a loan, maybe you can bet on yourself by using our service- WordHustler.co ...

Adam Rakunas

2008-12-09 18:27:18

And here I wasn't going to apply again, and they have to go get another excellent lineup. Time to g ...

drewgum

2008-12-01 14:33:02

Well, at least you've been thinking about writing for the whole month. And if you keep up the same p ...

The Grapevine, part 2 « Shineanthology’s Weblog

2008-11-10 21:19:59

[...] Walter not only gives a great shout-out, but goes out on a limb, as well. Many thanks, [...]

Pedantrist

2008-11-08 19:59:43

Oh yes, and I'm pretty sure it;s Yorke....

Andrew McGuire

2008-11-07 20:39:12

If you're wondering why this is such a late response, I've only been able to look at your blog witho ...

Andrew McGuire

2008-11-07 20:36:22

I also think the new album is great - at least, the tracks I've heard on MySpace - but I don't know ...

George Bush On Best Political Blogs » The Price of Victory…

2008-11-07 07:22:32

[...] The Price of Victory… John McCain gave a speech so gracious in defeat that many people would ...

GoldenGirl

2008-11-03 13:48:36

Good luck Damien. Setting a good example for your OU students. Teresa (Morgan)

tooshytostop

2008-10-31 23:15:38

Good luck with NaNoWriMo! Too Shy to Stop just featured a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-win ...

Emma

2008-10-31 21:24:29

Hi Damien Good Luck! I did do NaNoWriMo when I wanted to get a first draft of a novel done - it gav ...

Kat

2008-10-29 23:40:54

Oh, this makes me happy, too. Thanks for posting it.

20,000th Anniversary « . . . Damien G. Walter . . .

2008-10-24 23:50:17

[...] Post: Matter - Iain M Banks with 511 [...]

Clay Lowe

2008-10-20 20:12:00

Hi Damien, we've met indirectly through Lydia. Your last two posts have inspired me to comment. ...

megan

2008-10-16 15:09:30

It's all about the chaos magic, my friend. Or, at least, that's my vote.

damiengwalter

2008-10-16 11:42:31

Thanks for your response Luke. I think your final point is very central to the discussion. Its the c ...

Another look at gloominess in science fiction « FROM A SCI-FI STANDPOINT

2008-10-16 02:19:09

[...] final comment I want to make, going back to Damien Walter again. In his article “The Pol ...

Luke Jackson

2008-10-16 01:17:13

I enjoyed reading your article and the discussion that arose as a result, Damien. Although the work ...

Maxwell

2008-10-05 22:31:07

I turn on the ignition and roll the car forward. The rain falls at a slight angle because of the gal ...

Eric Tolle

2008-09-30 01:00:45

The natural response is: what about the story then makes it SF? If the Sfictional elements are peri ...

Eric Tolle

2008-09-30 00:55:40

This political dichotomy seems like a strange reversal in attitude. It seems to me that traditional ...

James David Nicoll

2008-09-29 17:12:56

Well, one way to get conflict is to focus on aspects of day to day living that the utopian elements ...

megan

2008-09-24 23:55:08

I don't see why it has to be utopian futures. I mean, imagining a positive future doesn't necessaril ...

damiengwalter

2008-09-24 22:16:37

Yeah, that ocured to me when the article went live. I thought 'You've gone and opened your yap again ...

megan

2008-09-24 18:10:32

Happier SF is getting to be a bee in your bonnet, isn't it? Not that I'm arguing; I like hoping for ...

Planet-x.com.au » Science fiction doesn’t have to be gloomy, does it?

2008-09-24 17:31:25

[...] It’s at times like these that people seek escape in the pages of popular fiction . But anyon ...

megan

2008-09-18 01:39:32

Hang on... Yes, look! I've got Dogland on my bookshelf. I think I bought it for my sister because of ...

Kat

2008-09-12 20:16:20

The Clarion collective brain strikes again - I just picked up The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, ...

ejfischer

2008-09-09 02:19:56

I have to say, I think optimism is a difficult crop to cultivate in the current geopolitical climate ...

secretagentartist

2008-09-02 06:00:56

Hey, that's great...dark and disturbing though it is...;)

Emily Jiang

2008-09-01 20:14:26

Congrats!

megan

2008-08-31 13:10:19

Hurrah! Put up a reminder so I can listen.

Emily Jiang

2008-08-30 21:55:52

Yay, I'm glad you've found a better hook. Keep writing!

damiengwalter

2008-08-30 12:21:26

I would have been disappointed if you had Murphy. The day S.F. Murphy believes a word of such things ...

S F Murphy

2008-08-30 07:46:13

It was the standard "chicken in every pot" speech. I do not believe a word of it.

megan

2008-08-29 12:32:54

I agree that it was a very impressive speech. The man knows how to say things well. What I find intr ...

damiengwalter

2008-08-29 11:28:51

I was impressed. Obama gave people the right vision, which is the important thing now. More comments ...

megan

2008-08-29 04:24:42

I just watched it. What did you think?

damiengwalter

2008-08-26 14:52:31

Its a good point about the sway of TV over sci-fi. But I think Winterson was reffering to print scie ...

Benjamin

2008-08-26 14:34:30

I can't really blame her, some people would mistake Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Sci-Fi. o.O Kinda f ...

Matt’s Bookosphere 8/25/08 « Enter the Octopus

2008-08-26 04:19:38

[...] The value of short fiction [...]

Emily Jiang

2008-08-22 08:03:04

Wow. I must say I'm impressed, Walter. Congrats!

Jonathan Wood

2008-08-19 22:14:12

Listened to the episode, and found in extremely inspiring. The whole series Shaun Farrel made me je ...

Paul Raven

2008-08-16 15:31:34

$~ rm -i /media/bag/cat.* ;)

damiengwalter

2008-08-16 14:44:27

Hi Paul, I almost mentioned JJ but didn't want to give away too many of the agents on my most wanted ...

Paul Raven

2008-08-16 13:55:37

With the caveat that I maintain his web presence for him, I'll point out that John Jarrold is anothe ...

megan

2008-08-15 03:52:36

Just to let you know, I had to look up "internecine" in the dictionary (and yes, I do still use a pa ...

damiengwalter

2008-08-12 22:11:08

Hey Jonathan, thanks for letting people know. I'm really looking forward to it.

Jonathan Wood

2008-08-11 15:06:42

Just wanted to let people know that "The Sun" is a fine story and sits with the company very well. ...

Nalo Hopkinson

2008-08-10 08:47:52

I think the bunnies were the scariest part.

megan

2008-08-10 06:53:54

Hurrah for us! Hope the flight and train both were surprisingly pleasant experiences... I'm going t ...

damiengwalter

2008-08-05 21:40:56

Yes, FantasyCon is high on my list of priorities. Glad to hear your collection is being launched the ...

damiengwalter

2008-08-05 21:39:29

Hm...that is a very real possibility!

Digital Dame

2008-08-05 16:47:30

Maybe Mr. Ryman's totem animal is a Pooka. ;)

Allyson Bird

2008-08-05 11:19:29

Hi Damien! Apologies if I have missed your email address. It seems quite a long time since we were ...

ivoryfishbone

2008-08-05 09:42:09

i can't believe it's nearly over already ... am looking forward to hearing about it when you get bac ...

Insenlync

2008-08-03 03:51:58

It's amazing

Monica

2008-07-25 09:01:53

Oh crap. Did I miss that talk? I thought it'd been punted to Friday!....sad :(

ethar

2008-07-18 05:24:01

ouch, a typo :p anyway, here's Korean translation of that interview anyway: http://ethar.toodull.co ...

!wicked » Blog Archive » tomorrow’s everyday - charles stross by damien g walter@guardian

2008-07-18 05:23:01

[...] 올라온 Damian G Walter의 스트로스 인터뷰. 설렁설렁 [...]

damiengwalter

2008-07-16 06:11:52

I think Jim is watching via the rabbits, which have multiplied since his departure.

megan

2008-07-15 08:34:02

Yes, those crows are definitely on the watch. They're making sure we don't become lazy slobs in Kell ...

ethar

2008-07-10 09:43:50

Would you mine if I translate your interview into Korean? I'm a fan of Stross and found your intervi ...

ivoryfishbone

2008-07-03 08:51:53

sounds gruelling ... but glad you're determined x

Chris the Pro Gamer

2008-06-27 06:26:56

Hey There, Nice Post! I learned alot by visiting this blog. If interested in viewing the latest vide ...

mcbyrne

2008-06-27 04:11:47

Wooohoo! Welcome to the U.S.! Have you been here before?

drewgum

2008-06-26 09:01:14

Have a brilliant time and don't get up to any mischief with any sailors!

secretagentartist

2008-06-23 12:13:45

yeah-that's really good:)

ivoryfishbone

2008-06-20 19:11:34

congrats!

Mark

2008-06-10 10:34:21

I must admit, I've never got past his info dumps in his fiction, but the man certainly has useful th ...

lucifal

2008-06-07 11:29:07

It'll be appearing in Issue #6 (December 2008).

damiengwalter

2008-06-03 19:29:23

OMFG! How cool is that?!

Lucy

2008-06-03 10:31:36

Off topic, but your Guardian blog post is linked to on Neil Gaiman's journal! http://journal.neilgai ...

damiengwalter

2008-06-02 13:58:43

I think they mean 'surrender' rather than 'send your stories', unfortunately.

Lucy

2008-06-02 12:51:57

Electric Velocipede is closed to submissions until further notice.

damiengwalter

2008-05-29 15:01:53

Excellent suggestions all, a couple of which have collided with my own top fantasy worlds.

Mark

2008-05-29 14:18:12

I think I'd put forward two dying earth settings - M John Harrison's Viriconium and Gene Wolfe's Urt ...

Jo Twist

2008-05-26 15:33:37

My favourite fictional universes : - Dune - the Culture - Gormenghast but the most important has ...

The Ferrett

2008-05-26 04:43:43

I'd argue Terry Pratchett's world is pretty well-defined, even if it's not particularly coherent. B ...

damiengwalter

2008-05-18 22:13:23

Thanks for posting David. Glad to encouter another former clarionite, ad a successful one at that!

David J. Williams

2008-05-18 19:27:04

Congrats Damien. Came across this via the Guardian blog--very cool stuff. Good luck at Clarion--I ...

John Self

2008-05-14 09:38:54

Most often these days the criticism I read of the Booker Prize is that it's too populist and not hig ...

damiengwalter

2008-04-28 13:51:20

Of course, how could I forget Mike Marshall Smith getting his tongue twisted around maverick cock!

Trudi Topham

2008-04-28 13:21:43

I had a great time. Were you present for MMS's maverick cock? The screenwriting and fantasy (expect ...

Emma

2008-04-17 20:55:39

I don't break any exactly, except that with regard to Rule 5, I might take a poem/story out of my su ...

Tony Lee

2008-04-16 15:29:33

Their recent album In Rainbows was great, but I'm not sure it's a good thing to realise that ...

damiengwalter

2008-04-14 11:43:46

I interpret that one as meaning 'Refrain from re-writing...once you are finished.' Its really aimed ...

drewgum

2008-04-14 11:29:00

'Refrain from re-writing" - I always rewrite!

damiengwalter

2008-04-09 20:18:53

Hi Jo, Yeah, I'd been getting that impression. Seems I have mucho reading ahead of me!

Jo Twist

2008-04-09 15:09:43

the unconquered country is ace for the eastern connection ... and the child garden for hard sf. He' ...

Emily Jiang

2008-04-08 01:47:34

Yes, I agree that there's something about Ryman's voice that makes me think Japanese! Fascinating.

drewgum

2008-04-07 19:51:23

Did you see the BBC documentary about Ryman a few years ago. It was after 253 and before Lust (about ...

Pam

2008-04-06 13:39:12

nah, any day with a poem in it is a good one! Blog it for us, whydoncha! xx ;)

Emily Jiang

2008-04-03 08:29:23

Hello! I'll be blogging about Clarion, too, some in haiku. Looking forward to meeting you in San D ...

Sarah

2008-04-03 02:47:06

Hello! I'm another classmate.

Monica

2008-04-02 23:05:05

Hey classmate ;)

Lucy

2008-04-02 10:23:07

Congratulations!

ChiaLynn

2008-04-01 22:38:55

Congratulations, Damien! And thanks for the comment.

damiengwalter

2008-03-31 23:44:06

Hey Kevin. I hope you did get a place but if not I hope you enjoy the boat.

Kevin

2008-03-31 00:00:49

Congrats on getting in. They haven't informed everyone who applied yet, since I haven't heard :) ...

secretagentartist

2008-03-30 21:05:36

My beautiful, clever man x:)

Jo Twist

2008-03-30 21:02:46

hey ... well done mate

drewgum

2008-03-30 16:49:58

Congtrats!!!

Pam

2008-03-30 12:59:01

Yay! Looking forward to hearing all about it!x

Maggie Lance

2008-03-27 02:52:39

Oh, I can only imagine how difficult this is. Good luck, man. I wish you the very, very best.

How Not To Write

2008-03-26 20:51:05

Hang in there, Damien! From what I understand, both Clarions got a boatload of submissions this yea ...

Jeff VanderMeer

2008-03-23 03:57:41

I don't suppose you could drop me a line at vanderworld at hotmail.com? Thanks! jeff

David Carvin

2008-03-15 12:47:11

Damien, Really enjoyed the Circe Drabblecast Are you going to add some interpretation clues on the f ...

Trudi Topham

2008-03-14 17:26:21

Seconded. Escape Pod, and their sister podcast Pseudopod, are both well worth regular listens.

damiengwalter

2008-03-07 01:55:36

Not the way I see it. Its not so much that interesting stuff in fantasy needs publicising, and if it ...

Mark

2008-03-07 00:38:15

Thanks Damien for this. I think you've hit on a number of my concerns with the programme. The second ...

Mark Newton

2008-02-29 18:31:00

I've noticed that about them. Nothing compared to Sam Jordison's article on the Bible. (700 comments ...

damiengwalter

2008-02-29 18:14:18

Thats actually fairly tame for the GU. People tend to just scan the article then leap to an angry co ...

Lou

2008-02-29 18:04:03

Some of the people who have left comments on the Guardian page are just so ... angry! Why are they l ...

Mark

2008-02-29 17:06:13

Really agreed with this. I thought children's fantasy was an abysmal place to start, something they ...

Mark

2008-02-29 14:39:17

I think it's a pretty good idea, on the whole. I can just bet my email will be abused with spam and ...

secretagentartist

2008-02-25 01:20:27

The Luton Airport thing was SO not really my fault. Could have happened to anyone - passports are ti ...

damiengwalter

2008-02-22 19:57:14

I just noticed that today. Old Man's War looks great on my Ipod Touch!

Craig

2008-02-22 19:54:48

As of the second e-book that was sent out, you now have the option of downloading in PDF, HTML or mo ...

damiengwalter

2008-02-21 15:39:06

Hi Drew, Your comments keep getting caught in the spam filter! No idea why. Just rescued this one.

damiengwalter

2008-02-20 19:20:23

Its all your fault you know people. If I wasn't surrounded by damn poets all the time this never wou ...

pureangelsblog

2008-02-20 09:52:25

Damien, what's happening..'poem'..short thing, no words..and you've sent it out, straight away, no m ...

Lydia

2008-02-20 01:18:03

i go away for one week...;)

ivoryfishbone

2008-02-19 22:18:28

*speechless*

Jo Twist

2008-02-19 13:38:43

love the new look ... spooky country

Cate

2008-02-14 20:44:36

CONGRATULATIONS.

drewgum

2008-02-14 19:17:56

Couldn't agree more. I'm on the 3rd edit of The Penguin Variations now and it's possibly six months ...

damiengwalter

2008-02-11 20:34:19

Thanks Drew.

krewthedral

2008-02-05 01:55:18

New weird sounds great...checking out more of this now...

damiengwalter

2008-02-05 01:49:29

Wacked out sci-fi absurd comedy / satire, let me think. For a good listing of SF 'zines try 'The Fix ...

krewthedral

2008-02-05 01:43:16

Nice links mate - i've just started out in this writing game and i'm looking for fanzines - do you h ...

drewgum

2008-02-03 16:48:19

Really enjoyed the extract!

Pages tagged "smog"

2008-02-03 02:23:52

[...] bookmarks tagged smog The Great Western Pile saved by 3 others ...

Lydia

2008-01-13 18:08:50

I agree, Buck 65 would be really great - especially with the repeated section - kind of like a choru ...

damiengwalter

2007-12-21 02:15:44

Yes. I like that answer.

Jo Twist

2007-12-20 17:43:19

to keep the muse you have to use your dreams ... and not to lie

Nigel Beale

2007-12-12 04:48:32

I hate the Booker too...for raising expectations...recently read past winners Amsterdam and The Sea. ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-11-28 17:30:05

And how could I have forgotten the late lamented Norman Mailer's 'Ancient Evenings'? (Which I've ac ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-11-26 18:42:58

I don't have a problem with rejection, at least in the context in question. I've never had a manusc ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-11-26 18:30:55

Would 'The Mummy' by Anne Rice be too obvious? Yes, of course it would, and, furthermore, not havin ...

Emma

2007-11-25 22:00:43

"Most important of all, as soon as a rejection comes in, take the rejected story, pick a new market ...

Kerry

2007-11-22 17:40:34

Read Kerry Featherstone's Leicestershire books blog for the aesthetic alternative view of this devel ...

Learn Guitar » Rings Extract

2007-11-20 13:46:19

[...] You can read the rest of this blog post by going to the original source, here [...]

drewgum

2007-11-19 13:09:04

Good stuff, Damien! I wanted to read more... Drew

damiengwalter

2007-11-13 00:55:51

Excellent. Another take all together. Although spookily similar to my own effort at a thematic level ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-11-12 19:23:54

I took one look at the dame and knew she was trouble. She had curves that defied physics, a face ...

damiengwalter

2007-11-10 11:25:28

Thats an amazing first paragraph. Now I want read the story.

drewgum

2007-11-10 10:41:22

Random first paragraph. "It was a ring, there was no doubt about that. Top scientists had studied t ...

Sam Jordison

2007-11-08 13:45:21

Clever! That's so often the solutions to writing problems...

damiengwalter

2007-11-06 20:02:23

Nice of you to drop by Sam. No worries about the paragraph, I solved the problem by deleting it alto ...

Sam Jordison

2007-11-06 19:44:25

Heh-heh. How nice to arrive where the real action is actually all happening... As for Rings... I' ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-10-25 14:16:53

I doubt that that's quite 'the full story' but it certainly put me right re the dates. I was under ...

damiengwalter

2007-10-24 18:51:18

You can find the full story here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole I fear that the ...

Andrew

2007-10-24 18:44:39

P.S. I don't know how many rejections he had, but he'd been trying for nearly 20 years, as I unders ...

Andrew

2007-10-24 18:42:06

It worked, though, didn't it?

damiengwalter

2007-10-24 18:15:08

I'm not sure dying really classifies as a 'route' to anything. Actually it seems that JKT died of de ...

Andrew

2007-10-24 17:59:47

If all that fails, you could take the John Kennedy Toole route (though only as a last resort).

damiengwalter

2007-10-11 21:04:14

Yes. Read read read read read and read some more.

Emma

2007-10-11 20:58:42

Good advice. Publishing credits do generate more publishing credits. But I would strongly emphas ...

drewgum

2007-10-11 19:48:42

Good advice. And people do read the stories and it is important. I've been approached by agents, ask ...

Geoff Berry

2007-10-08 05:54:18

Hey Damien, Yeah, it's a sparsely populated but dense place, and it has long, long roots. I wrote a ...

damiengwalter

2007-10-03 18:23:57

Hi Randy, Fantastic! I'll take that as my pronunciation from now on. The relationship between Lewi ...

randyhoyt

2007-10-03 17:44:04

I'm excited that you have discovered mythopoeia. Jay's right about the pronunciation, though I would ...

damiengwalter

2007-09-24 21:47:28

Thanks Emma. I'm feeling slightly better already.

damiengwalter

2007-09-24 20:16:22

I'm undecided. I have a huge pile of birthday books to get through first. D

drewgum

2007-09-24 20:08:44

Agree. It's fun to keep a blog - a record of what you've written, read, watched, got annoyed about. ...

LeGuin vs. Winterson « The Fiction Front

2007-09-24 19:03:32

[...] has reviewed the new novel from Jeanette Winterson ‘The Stone Gods’, a novel which ...

Emma

2007-09-23 20:52:35

Hope the cold clears soon. At least you had a good birthday!

ivoryfishbone

2007-09-23 13:34:26

well the birthday was good ... and i am saving 10p by saying here ... it was me sending that text a ...

Jay

2007-09-21 18:01:02

That'd be MITH-O-PEE-UH Jay

embarrassingfriend

2007-09-19 16:49:02

Looks interesting. I've read half of the David Mitchell interview (you can print five pages free a ...

Sabrina

2007-09-13 17:31:04

Go for it! deffo! and if you do get thrown out for stalking Gaimen then that would just be hilariou ...

Steve Carroll

2007-09-13 11:21:29

Go for it! Sounds fab. Agree about SWTWC (btw). I think the fact that, "Nothing much else happened a ...

damiengwalter

2007-09-10 17:53:26

On Orwin / Grossman, I don't even feel that is a pedantic point. You are right to say it is a conseq ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-09-10 17:47:43

I trust you know how much I hate to be pedantic - if not, just ask Lydia - but I really feel it incu ...

bookwitch

2007-09-05 15:15:59

I only have the little macbook, but it's busy transforming my life. The two offsprings went out and ...

bookwitch

2007-09-05 15:09:59

I just don't like JW very much. Not at all, in fact. Met her once and she was a disappointment even ...

Steve Carroll

2007-09-05 09:04:03

Definitely not sci fi then. Nope. No way nohow. Absolutely un-sci-fi-tastic. It's what Joyce would b ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-30 17:04:43

You really must tell that story sometime, Alison!

ivoryfishbone

2007-08-29 23:17:04

reminds me of when i expressed a personal opinion about a well known chain of bookshops and felt lik ...

damiengwalter

2007-08-25 20:15:29

Indeed. I think I'm saved from actual hat eating by the lack of any comparison to Updike, but it com ...

Sam Jordison

2007-08-25 16:29:34

Hat time: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/king.html Meanwhile, I'm enjoying this blog... ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-23 13:00:25

The dame looked like trouble. Dames are always trouble, thought Obscurantist, whom his friends knew ...

Jane Air

2007-08-23 10:58:42

Am looking for reviewers for gonewiththewinds.co.uk I understand what you're talking about in the gu ...

secretagentartist

2007-08-23 10:16:53

no, that does actually really help. Know it wasn't but could have been written for me at the moment. ...

Sabrina

2007-08-20 20:10:54

Oh man! Now we won't get any more help! Nah! only joking mate! Good on ya!!!

Steve Carroll

2007-08-20 08:33:02

Nice one Damien!

damiengwalter

2007-08-19 17:07:27

Thanks Ivory and Drew.

drewgum

2007-08-19 17:04:59

Yeah! Great news!

secretagentartist

2007-08-17 21:17:26

Post them, post them, post them!

ivoryfishbone

2007-08-17 10:36:28

fantastic news! really glad to hear it xxx

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-16 16:51:58

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll give it some serious thought come next JSA payday.

drewgum

2007-08-16 08:44:17

Yeah! Welcome to the world of Mac!

ivoryfishbone

2007-08-14 11:32:35

hey damo i just got a nice email ... your recommendation ta v v v much xxx

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-13 17:17:37

For Heaven's sake, why don't you just come out of the closet and admit you're a Potter fan? I know ...

secretagentartist

2007-08-12 22:02:59

Yes Andrew Yes! Damien's been using mine. Evil, horrid Damien. I can't get near the thing. Verges on ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-09 17:52:38

I can't help noticing that, for someone whose computer has just died, you seem remarkably prolific o ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-08 16:59:26

But have you / has he given it back?

damiengwalter

2007-08-08 14:23:46

Yep, its a class issue.

endlesslyredonoursnow

2007-08-08 13:16:14

I've often noticed that there seems to be a glass ceiling in the arts for non-oxbridge graduates. Th ...

damiengwalter

2007-08-08 10:48:45

Yes, I did.

secretagentartist

2007-08-08 01:38:14

Yes. He did.

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-07 17:57:30

Ah, after congratulations...commiserations. Despite following your progress avidly, it had entirely ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-07 17:51:05

Yes, congrats from me too. I've been trying to think of a good pulpy pseudonym for you - hence the ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-08-07 11:09:34

aaaaaaaaargh noooooooo

ivoryfishbone

2007-08-07 11:09:03

i don't know what this means ... but congratulations! xxx

drewgum

2007-08-05 08:38:18

Congratulations! I'm very jealous. I love Chabon.

secretagentartist

2007-08-03 00:18:16

hahaha;)..oh not about the bike theft-obviously evil-you're listening to the number one target...the ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-08-02 22:25:53

this wouldn't happen in the countryside ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-08-02 17:11:39

Random wheel theft may seem bizarre, Damien, but in my experience these things are cyclical.

secretagentartist

2007-07-30 23:37:39

It's true Andrew. He killed me! He killed me good and proper! Murder, murder, murder! Also, I didn' ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-30 11:48:19

Sounds delightful. I note that you are, however, somewhat less than completely ingenuous in certain ...

Alex Walsh

2007-07-25 15:29:17

At the same time both resentful of and grateful for, Douglas Coupland. Tch, what the hell do I know? ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-21 12:47:58

I'm sure there's nothing - or nothing much - to worry about, Damien. I think you'll be well catered ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-18 18:29:53

That's some heavy shit, dude. A little outside my area of personal experience, though. I'm not su ...

damiengwalter

2007-07-17 12:31:37

Thanks Steve!

Steve Carroll

2007-07-17 10:15:55

Nice one!

damiengwalter

2007-07-16 17:25:33

Thanks Drew and Andrew. W00T! is a term employed by hardcore gamers. It is commonly thought to have ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-16 17:02:42

Well done! By the way, this may not be the ideal time and place to ask, but that does 'WooT' mean? ...

Drew

2007-07-15 23:20:02

Congrats to you!

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-11 11:28:11

I think the elusive word may be 'ambivalent' (though I'm very annoyed I couldn't think of it when I ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-11 11:19:42

By a bizarre quirk of fate, I read Hinterlands last night. It took me a long time, as have the othe ...

damiengwalter

2007-07-10 18:43:43

That is probably true, however whilst the first two volumes are linked (Curse of Chalion and Paladin ...

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-10 17:54:41

Well, it just so happens that I am looking for a really exceptional fantasy read, Damien, to provid ...

damiengwalter

2007-07-09 18:42:50

Yup. See above for justification.

embarrassingfriend

2007-07-09 18:29:58

He flunked it.

secretagentartist

2007-07-08 12:09:11

So how did it work out? How's this week's word count going?x

Drew

2007-07-03 18:21:44

No, no previews cause it's not edited. It's just narrative. I'll have to put some jokes and feeling ...

damiengwalter

2007-07-02 22:02:12

Yes, I really, really want a Mac. its quite strange because a year ago I couldn't have told you what ...

Drew

2007-07-02 21:26:24

oh, I am also now 60,000 words into my new book. I have so many threads. I have the guy from the IMO ...

Drew

2007-07-02 21:21:31

Damien, that's a lot of reading! I read Dune as a teenager on holiday, bought from a woman who lived ...

damiengwalter

2007-06-21 20:12:13

I agree with that sentiment.

Drew

2007-06-21 18:09:44

I find what you read can have an effect on what you're writing. I have a copy of Penguin Lost on the ...

damiengwalter

2007-06-19 12:26:42

Yup...a pen and paper version makes it much easier to go from first to second draft. Its much better ...

sabrina

2007-06-19 12:17:14

I agree that writing pen/paper is poss the way 2 go! strange that I was the total opposite about 2 y ...

damiengwalter

2007-06-18 19:37:19

Yes, lets hope people don't think I've been up to anything more adventurous than writing!

sabrina

2007-06-18 12:09:29

Good for you! its always great when you relise that you have really broken through a barrier, wether ...

damiengwalter

2007-06-14 19:01:31

You never know. A lot of self discipline goes a little way.

ivoryfishbone

2007-06-14 12:41:13

would it help if i got out my whip?

damiengwalter

2007-06-14 00:48:33

So am I!

ivoryfishbone

2007-06-14 00:21:05

getting anxious about your word count this week damien ...

damiengwalter

2007-05-18 18:48:34

That's only the tip of the iceberg. It s a well kept secret but I can exclusively reveal that PKD hi ...

A.R.Yngve

2007-05-18 18:36:05

"A lot of it (not all, but much) is a great deal better than its source material." Oh, absolutely! ...

secretagentartist

2007-05-16 00:15:00

I think I must have been running through exactly the same rainstorm. I chose the 45 minute window du ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-05-13 09:56:20

ah well ... have to write those books instead sorry didn't get to talk to you on wednesday ... thin ...

damiengwalter

2007-04-20 20:04:33

Don't mix the ears and the pasty in the same outfit. That's a shooting incident even among moderate ...

Sabrina

2007-04-20 12:23:58

Oh man! and I really wanted the Spock ears and Klingon forehead-pasties as well!

damiengwalter

2007-04-17 16:08:57

Thanks Julian. Clearly my failure to shake the foundations of the literary establishment isn't your ...

Julian Gough

2007-04-17 15:53:53

Sorry about that. Nothing to do with me! I agree with you about the sorry lack of science fiction no ...

damiengwalter

2007-04-17 13:17:41

Looks like a great contest. I don't think I have anything suitabel under 2k and I don't qualify for ...

Livette

2007-04-17 02:07:19

Nice blog!

ivoryfishbone

2007-04-17 00:21:29

dear damo ... this might be up your alley ... http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9083

Sabrina

2007-04-16 16:18:30

thanks man! (now i have no excuse!) :(

damiengwalter

2007-04-16 13:44:06

Definitely send it in for Tripod. The submission rules are strict so if it was late last time it wou ...

Sabrina

2007-04-16 12:13:23

Damien, as you know, i have tons and tons of stories that I forget about and never send off anywhere ...

damiengwalter

2007-04-15 22:00:55

Send them somewhere. Anywhere. Try Duotrope http://www.duotrope.com/

Steve Carroll

2007-04-15 21:47:27

Yes. Yes I do.

damiengwalter

2007-04-14 00:29:49

I'm not sure.

ivoryfishbone

2007-04-14 00:10:51

is this normal?

secretagentartist

2007-03-31 09:46:20

you wrote a poem!!!!

secretagentartist

2007-03-28 17:10:51

I think you'll find you're clever than you think;) Obviously, I carry a dictophone at all times... ...

Cthul-You Listen Again « Damien G Walter

2007-03-28 10:32:15

[...] March 6th, 2007 · No Comments Cthul-You is no longer available from the BBC Listen Aga ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-27 12:12:06

dark and twisted ... and funny ... glad no smell of hamburgers this time ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-23 00:35:31

he's like steve carroll ...

secretagentartist

2007-03-22 02:29:57

Toby Litt! He really does get everywhere!

Anne Caldwell

2007-03-19 12:30:07

Thanks for writing this up Damien. Gives a real insight as to how something like this can work, and ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-16 00:33:40

trouble is ... how do you tell?

secretagentartist

2007-03-16 00:22:50

Note to all us too. Thanks Damo, could do worse than think that myself at the moment.

damiengwalter

2007-03-13 01:00:02

Hold on.... Beard? Everywhere? Spooky? Seems familiar somehow...

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-13 00:33:36

i have discovered that steve is EVERYWHERE ... he is spooky with his little topiary beard ... poppin ...

damiengwalter

2007-03-12 21:14:53

Yes. I've also discovered that paperbacks disintegrate in the sauna as the heat melts their gluey bi ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-12 11:02:33

i think this is a good reason not to go to the gym ...

damiengwalter

2007-03-08 11:54:12

Hi Matt, and thank you for enjoying the story and taking the trouble to track it down to its source. ...

MMMatt

2007-03-08 10:26:51

Came here as a result of hearing your story live on BBC7 - really enjoyed it. WTH are you?

damiengwalter

2007-03-07 00:49:35

Oh my, a scary eye and a topiary beard. This will be an interesting WORD.

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-06 18:06:52

i think that ... plus the thought of the little noise you make when putting on your socks steve ... ...

Steve Carroll

2007-03-06 17:07:59

Eye schmeye. You should see the beard. It's like wrestling with topiary. It's like the end of The Sh ...

damiengwalter

2007-03-06 16:56:31

Absolutely. Wouldn't have it any other way.

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-06 15:32:44

yikes i have still got the willies ... do you LIKE having that sort of mind damien? (i agree scary ...

damiengwalter

2007-03-06 14:52:23

Please, go ahead. Thats a mighty scary eye you have there Steve!

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-06 12:49:37

god that story! ... you are sick damo sick! and funny damo funny! got the creeps now and it's broa ...

Steve Carroll

2007-03-06 12:38:58

hellooo ivy! (sorry damien - holding a conversation across your board like that!)

ivoryfishbone

2007-03-06 12:33:53

oooooo well done damo ... just logged on to say am right about to 'listen again' hellooo steve!

Steve Carroll

2007-03-06 11:20:34

Hi Damien Just listened to Cthul-you on the BBC's fab 'listen again' thingy. Really enjoyed it. Nice ...

endlesslyredonoursnow

2007-03-01 00:25:32

I agree about the regional thing: I almost feel I have to move to London if I'm ever to write actual ...

secretagentartist

2007-02-27 09:23:07

Yep, he was absolutely amazing. Came in like a grizzled biker-talked like a prophet poet. I now have ...

damiengwalter

2007-02-14 23:24:29

Hi Frank, thanks for taking the time to read the story. I'll pick up the POV and punctuation on the ...

secretagentartist

2007-02-14 22:22:20

So glad you're doing the writing in scenes thing. Sounds like your really using this mentoring to th ...

Frank Menser

2007-02-14 22:17:05

Took a look at it. Right off you need to be careful about switching POV you do this a couple of time ...

secretagentartist

2007-01-31 09:06:27

It was an accident! Anyway, I gave that book the best weeks of its little papery life.

damiengwalter

2007-01-30 01:46:26

Yes, both interesting and miserable. The perfect combination.

sabrina

2007-01-29 13:47:10

miserable bastard!

ivoryfishbone

2007-01-28 16:46:40

very interesting article that ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-01-25 18:49:57

i have got a special reality check beastie net ... mwahahahahaaaa

secretagentartist

2007-01-25 13:17:02

All kinds of beasties, all knocking about in my head. Somehow-I always knew;)

damiengwalter

2007-01-23 15:09:56

The title of this blog, 'Don't Look Down' was also inspired by a Neil Gaiman story called 'Fear of F ...

sabrina

2007-01-23 14:47:05

I read one book at a time cos am shit at multitasking and even tying up my shoelaces confuses me! I ...

sabrina

2007-01-23 14:44:47

Oh man! I love that story am a bit of a Gaiman geek! Shush! Did a English BA, comic books are for c ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-01-21 23:55:36

cheers!

damiengwalter

2007-01-21 18:28:02

cuh-fool (you!) To put it in the words of H P Lovecraft... 'Cthulhu will eat Grofaz!' http://en.w ...

ivoryfishbone

2007-01-21 17:50:28

i wonder how you say 'cthul' ...

Nienke

2007-01-04 21:57:05

You should check out the new Mad Typist. He's here: http://nienkehinton.blogspot.com/2006/10/are-you ...

SAbrina

2006-12-26 23:17:44

I got Olaf Stapledon, No idea who he is!

secretagentartist

2006-12-23 02:53:18

The likeness is scary :)

damiengwalter

2006-12-19 17:14:48

Yes...that will probably be the way of things.

Kerry

2006-12-19 16:50:18

It will be Martin Jarvis. It aways is. They only ask so that you feel involved. After a few sugges ...

ivoryfishbone

2006-12-19 10:35:55

what about micky from eastenders?

sabrina

2006-12-18 14:29:43

Nihilstic, mid-nineties, generation-X, slacker chic? hmm... I'd get Beck to do it. He has a great ...

secretagentartist

2006-12-16 13:31:20

Danny Devito? David Duchovny? David Schwimmer? Ooh- what about Xander out of Buffy? Ok, Xander I c ...

damiengwalter

2006-12-13 22:20:25

I've always had my suspicions about the exact relationship between Robbie and Well'Ard. Lovers? Br ...

sabrina

2006-12-13 17:53:52

Good for You! Seriously! This bight break down some boundaries and I can eventually submit somehting ...

damiengwalter

2006-12-01 15:36:08

Ha! Made a mistake with the link. All fixed now. Click! Read! Visitors are the only thing that will ...

secretagentartist

2006-12-01 15:15:34

hey damien-wordpress won't let me read it!

Sabrina

2006-12-01 13:41:19

That's great! Well Done!

secretagentartist

2006-11-25 07:23:09

Damien. We did not have to wash in river water.

damiengwalter

2006-11-17 12:33:35

sshhh!!!! You're giving away the secret plan!

Kerry

2006-11-17 11:38:58

Damn straight. And, like I suggested, just cut and paste. Write half and then repeat, in a post-mod ...

sabrina

2006-11-06 14:59:08

yeah! thats the best way to get rid of that pesky internal sensor! i find that writing first thing i ...

ivoryfishbone

2006-10-31 09:37:02

hey damien if you are going to word on wednesday i'll bring you some ...

secretagentartist

2006-10-29 22:40:31

God-it's uncanny...

Sabrina

2006-10-28 10:58:54

all i can think of is "thunderbolt of lightning, very very frightning" and I suppose you could argu ...

damiengwalter

2006-10-24 18:30:39

Thanks for the comment Nienke, I'll look you up on NaNo the next time I log in.

Nienke

2006-10-24 18:23:46

I'm doing the same thing. My first time and I'm using it to jumpstart my current WIP. I'm also worki ...

damiengwalter

2006-10-23 17:33:21

Juliet E Mckenna made the point at a talk she gave in Leicester that the only writers she knows who ...

damiengwalter

2006-10-23 17:28:57

Yes, thats it! Thats whats been disturbing me about the whole thing...

secretagentartist

2006-10-23 14:41:34

Surely you're just thinking about 400 years from now when the evil superhuman/alien race of the spec ...

Sabrina

2006-10-23 13:14:27

Damien - I do, like, little planning on paper (well not much more than what is on my blog) before si ...

ivoryfishbone

2006-10-23 09:03:04

outlining ... interesting ... i watched a docu on john irving a while ago where he said he knows exa ...

damiengwalter

2006-10-20 17:08:14

Indeed, its possible that once again my reactionary side has made me leap to conclusions, but theres ...

ivoryfishbone

2006-10-20 16:30:56

oooo damien ... you cynical old thing ... i didn't think of it being patronising ... i thought it wo ...

lydia

2006-10-15 15:10:27

Also attending Jacqeline Wilson's Overdale visit was Lydia Towsey: consort to Damo and all round goo ...

lydia

2006-10-15 14:40:13

Ha! So that's what you were doing when you were meant to be diligently following every word and brea ...

lydia

2006-10-15 14:36:31

really funny review. Laughed out loud with recognition at the and then they all trudged a bit more q ...

Cafael Dust

2006-10-04 18:14:02

Is 'crusading' the right choice of word for a liberal? Good point though; the right has always used ...

fields of dembo

2006-06-01 20:58:00

that photo doesnt show ur dandy fop hair as well as it might. I demand dandy fop hair!

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