Category Archives: Writing Journal

I spent most of Thursday pondering a project I’d been asked to do in the wake of ‘Cthul-You’ airing on BBC7. The Beeb have an Audio Music Festival happening soon as part of which the Festival Live radio station will be playing to staff throughout Broadcasting House. I’m guessing Festival Live isn’t just music, becuaseContinue reading “A Twist in the Tale”

Note to self: Writing with a strong, clear voice is good. Writing with a neutral or no voice is bad. Remember!

Cthul-You is no longer available from the BBC Listen Again service, but is online at Terrifying Tales. You can find the link here.

Excellent…my first  advisory warning! Cthul-You went out as planned earlier this evening proceeded by a fantasticaly stern warning. I think most of the nasty  bits were succesfuly toned down in the editing but if someone looked hard enough at the subtext they might find it a bit disturbing…with any luck the story will generate aContinue reading “Not Suitable for Younger Listeners”

A frustrating couple of days have passed on the writing front as work has refused to stay inside the lines and has obliterated the last two evenings, and will claim the next two as well. I did manage to get the 2nd  (and probably final) draft  of ‘Circe’s’ completed this evening, but that is it.Continue reading “Coloring Inside The Lines”

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”

…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…”

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”