Damien Walter

Stretching Exercises

So Day 2 of NaNoWriMo comes to a close and I’ve hit 2,400 words but I’m still 800 behind the pace, and had really wanted to be ahead of the pace to make up for the inevitable slackness that will set in when the excitement of the new begins to dull. In my defense IContinue reading “Stretching Exercises”

Maltesers

Further adventures in writing and the acoustic music scene at Ivoryfishbone’s blog. The day they start paying me Maltesers for writing is the day I’ll proclaim myself a professional novelist.

Mad Typist

This is how I really look. Got the hooks for Acts 4 and 5 today and rough notes for outline of chapter 4. Almost there…keep going D. Pic discovered at Nienke’s blog

Six More

God tests mankind. Only atheists pass.

Six Words That Changed The World

Wired magazine approached the worlds most noted fiction auteurs for six word stories. Here’s what they got. http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html And some more attempts at the Asimovs web board http://www.asimovs.com/discus/ Here are my tiny epics – Humanity achieves ascendence. Republicans left behind. Aliens purchase Earth. Corporate bonuses soar. Microsoft patents Hope. Download patch here. Rapture hits Britain.Continue reading “Six Words That Changed The World”

NaNoWriMo

I’m scribbling from sick bed today. Even being off work I’m still not without work, as the second half of today will be spent doing the graphic design for the upcoming events season publicity. Sigh. However whilst trying to get my flu wracked body into action my still mobile fingers were able to sign meContinue reading “NaNoWriMo”

Carving lines on the jail cell wall

I’ve been continuing with outlining process on … … … you know I really have to come up with a pseudonym for the novel project until I run into a title I’m happy with. OK then, from henceforth the current novel project shall be called … (cosiders momentarily) … SWORD! What do you mean it’sContinue reading “Carving lines on the jail cell wall”

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card is a writer that for many years existed in my mind as part of an amorphous mass of ‘Hard SF’ writers, most of them American, that I had not read and did not have any great interest in reading. Not due to any particular dislike for Hard SF, or for Americans, but because they were onContinue reading “Ender’s Game”

British Library Discovers Blogs…And Only a Decade Late

I woke up this morning to discover that the British Library and a collection of their National Trust partners had declared today a sort of national blog day. In an attempt to capture the minutiae of ordinary life our nations bastions of learning have invited the normal everyday of people to toddle along to theContinue reading “British Library Discovers Blogs…And Only a Decade Late”

Gardens of the Moon

I had to have a long hard think before deciding whether to post a review this book. Not so much because of the book, more because I really can’t decide whether I like it or not. I have multi-farious faults but lack of an opinion isn’t generaly one of them, so finding myself so indecisiveContinue reading “Gardens of the Moon”

Oh…the madness…

Sitting out of rehearsal for the event I was working on this afternoon I outlined two more chapters of Sword&Sorcery. This gives me the the first act in detail and the whole story arc in broad strokes from last weeks work (thats all long hand and as I don’t need it directly I’m not goingContinue reading “Oh…the madness…”

Outlining

I put in two good, two hour writing sessions today, continuing the outline I began midweek. I’m taking the outline process further than I have in the past and at the moment it’s feeling like a very constructive way of working. My reservation with outlining is that when I sit down to write, that ‘whatsContinue reading “Outlining”