There is a great story by Neil Gaiman in his Sandman days about a writer who imprisons the muse Caliope and uses her to fuel his work until he becomes the worlds most acclaimed novelist. Unfortunately for the writer, Caliopea.k’s ex-boyfriend happens to be Morpheus, a.k.a The Sandman, King of Dreams and one of theContinue reading “Eevil Muse”
Author Archives: Damien Walter
Countdown to Cthul-You
After a final round of last minute edits ‘Cthul-You’ has now been approved by the editor and the producer and will be recorded next week. And no it isn’t James Marsters (or even Martin Jarvis) putting voice to the story, that dubious honour has gone to Adam Sims, who rather fantasticaly also read ‘Burning Chrome’Continue reading “Countdown to Cthul-You”
How Many Writers Can You Fit In A Mini?
I’ve had an odd evening. I did the last set of edits on the story for the Beeb (now finished and with producer..yay!). I sent a longer version of the same story to an editor of a US magazine that I had sent a paper copy to months ago but they had lost it, andContinue reading “How Many Writers Can You Fit In A Mini?”
Bloody Hell
The mad typist in full. This will be me after week one of this years big push on the novel. Thanks to Nienke for reminding me about it.
PKD Made Me Do It
It really is all the big guys fault. My Christmas break has become unexpectedly long. I’m at home shivering and coughing with the third cold of the season. Inbetween boiling the lemsip and sleeping I’ve been scratching a few notes for a short story and wondering how I ever got into this writing thing inContinue reading “PKD Made Me Do It”
Damn Xmas Again
Tis’ the season of mass animal slaughter. I tire of wishing festive cheer to the world so I’m just going to warn all and sundry not to gorge to deeply and hope to see you soon on the other side. Bah-humbug Damien G Walter
I am William Gibson!
I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the “cyberpunk” wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction. Which science fiction writer are you?
Red Pen XXX
I’ve started on my first set of edits for the BBC. In all I have to slice a little over a thousand words out of Cthul-You and elimate all swearing. There is so much swearing in this story that my manuscript now looks like it was attacked by a red pen wielding maniac. I’m debatingContinue reading “Red Pen XXX”
Anita Blake – Vampire Hunter
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”
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”
