Guilty Pleasures & The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K Hamilton I’m a virulent defender of genre fiction and the trash aesthetic. I’ve literally risked life and limb to advocate the cause of all things pulp against the literary establishment. Only last week I stood in a classroom full of A-Level English teachers and proclaimed AlanContinue reading “Anita Blake – Vampire Hunter”
Author Archives: Damien Walter
The Beeb
A few weeks ago now I made a blind submission to the BBC. It was blind in that I wasn’t sure when I sent off the story exactly what I was submitting for. When I did track down the submission guidelines I realised the story I had e-mailed the day before was a little tooContinue reading “The Beeb”
Dusting Down
‘Dust’ is an online hypertext I wrote in 1999 towards the end of my BA. I had completely forgotten about it until Yahoo e-mailed me this morning to say that they were going to delete it from their server! You can read it here
NaNoWriMo Accepts My Official Surrender
NaNoWriMo comes to a close today and as the fog of war clears I’m in no way surprised to find myself on the casulaty list rather than the honour roll. I’d like to say I went out in a blaze of glory but the truth is it was more a case of being shot inContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Accepts My Official Surrender”
Momentum and Submission Anxiety
I’ve just got confirmation from John Klima, editor of Electric Velocipede magazine that my short story ‘Momentum’ will be published in issue 13, debuting in November 2007, just before World Fantasy Con. Waiting a year to see the story in print will probably try my patience but knowing that the magazine will be on saleContinue reading “Momentum and Submission Anxiety”
Tumbling Uphill
Well I’m back. The holiday was fantastic, not least getting to see the sea, which living in Leicester I had begun to believe was no more than an unsubstantiated rumour. Fantastic but surprisingly hard work. Hills. Rain. Darkness. No sooner had we awoken than it started to get dark. We then had to cycle upContinue reading “Tumbling Uphill”
Tumbling Downhill
Holiday time. Lydia and I are going to throw ourselves up and down mountains on bikes in Wales. Maybe I’ll break something but probably not. No posts until I return as the welsh hovel has no internet or even a phone. I’m told we will be washing in the crystal waters of a fast runningContinue reading “Tumbling Downhill”
Theres a Fiver in it
Learned today that my NaNoWriMo exploits have become the basis illegitimate black market dealings, including the betting of hard cash. I feel strangely invigorated by the idea. Of course need to forget that for every person betting on me, there is at least one other betting against. Given the choice I’m not sure which wayContinue reading “Theres a Fiver in it”
The Wall
I hit the NaNoWriMo wall today. Other than at the height of my flu last week I’ve managed to do at least 1000 words each day so far. But today I just couldn’t get anything out. I reached the end of Act One on Friday and just couldn’t resist going back and editing. Fatal mistake.Continue reading “The Wall”
Sex Scenes *ho hum*
I think there is a literary award given for worst written sex scene. All the greats have won it – Roth, Rusdie etc. Not personal greats (boring, boring, boring) but none the less if I’m ever to share an award with them I hope it isn’t that one. And awkward sex scene disease seems toContinue reading “Sex Scenes *ho hum*”
A Moment of Suicidal Overconfidence
Ha ha! I had my best NaNoWriMo day so far turning in about 2200 words, which puts me up to around 7500 in total. Thats represents Chapters 1,2 and 4 of SWORD, and half of Chapter 3 (I lost momentum on it and just ploughed on to the next section) In also puts me inContinue reading “A Moment of Suicidal Overconfidence”
NaNoWriMo Chapter One
Unedited first draft, spelling mistakes and all. One The cards fell onto the table in a chaos, some face up and others down, but the players no longer noticed as their attention wandered from the game to the jars the drunk from and the jokes the spurted out between fits of laughter, and far fromContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Chapter One”
Damien Walter 