Damien Walter

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”

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”