Just finished work on a scene in the new writing effort. I’ve had the characters and plot bubbling just beneath the surface for a fortnight, last week I manged to get the first part plooted out and I’ve dedicated this weekend to throwing myself into fleshing the thing out. Writing early scenes on a storyContinue reading “Up Late and Scribbling”
Author Archives: Damien Walter
Tripod
One of the lit.dev projects I have been working on for the last few months has hit an exciting point – the Literature Network today publishes its first spoken word podcast as part of the Tripod project. Its a really amazing feeling when projects like this come to fruition. A year ago this was aContinue reading “Tripod”
If At First You Get Rejected…
…get rejected again. Weird Tales have now rejected ‘Cthul-You’ twice, once by e-mail and once by post. To give them full credit they spent 84 cents to send me the the latest rejection, which must seriously bite into the profit margin in these tough days for genre fiction magazines. On the very positive side bothContinue reading “If At First You Get Rejected…”
Voices In My Head
I got a nice surprise in yesterdays post – the audio recording of ‘Cthul-You’ as produced by the BBC as part of their Blood Lines season. Its a great recording and the reading by Adam Sims is great. I was a little worried before I heard it, after the 7th or 8th edit I wasContinue reading “Voices In My Head”
Anne Vandermeer at Weird Tales
Note to self: send story to Anne Vandermeer, new fiction editor of Weird Tales. Full release here
The Streets are Paved with Fantasy (Blockbusters)
Its common currency in genre fiction land that if you want to make a living, you write fantasy. Whereas if you want to develop a cult reputation with readerships in double figures whilst subsisting on a diet of dried pasta and bread crusts you write SF. The interesting thing is that this doesn’t have anythingContinue reading “The Streets are Paved with Fantasy (Blockbusters)”
The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Innocent
I’ve just started a 6 month mentoring programme that has grown out of both my literature devlopment work and my interests as a writer. I’m going to make a few posts about it here on the Don’t Look Down blog as a way of recording my progress and I thought it might also be ofContinue reading “The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Innocent”
Feast of Fantasy
I’ve been on an epic fantasy read over the last month. Not just epic in content, but epic in size! First up a collection of short fiction by Kelly Link. Miss Link is at the head of a number of new (at least to me) fantasy writers who are melding fantasy / horror writing withContinue reading “Feast of Fantasy”
Word Hustler
There is a great little post over at Tobias Buckel’s blog about hustling for freelance work to support a writing career. I’m not sure I’d advise taking out a six month loan (thats about 10 – 12k!) unless you are uber serious, totally confidant in your writing skills and have at least a few publicationsContinue reading “Word Hustler”
Protected: STORY: Circe’s
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I Am William Gibson…Again
Which Author’s Fiction are You? William Gibson wrote your book. Technology terrifies and delights you. Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code This is just spooky!
The Quotable Bradbury
I thought I would share some excellent quotes from the mighty Ray Bradbury. They’re the kind of thing that only make sense once you have made the mistakes they are trying to help you avoid IMHO. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try toContinue reading “The Quotable Bradbury”
Damien Walter 