it’s been how many months?

I don’t even want to know this time… Here is the unedited first draft of a work in progress. Sharing …

in print! At last.

It’s good to see your words in print. If you would like to buy Morbid and Disgusting Stories from Clerkenwell …

Normal by Warren Ellis

So I recently read Normal a serialised novella by Warren Ellis and published in four parts by FSG. It is …

fourteen months later…

He decided it was time to post again. Watch this space – I’ve been writing loads of fiction again recently …

who has read the works of Herbert Quain?

Originally posted on Clerkenwell Writers Asylum:
I particularly love this Irish writer’s 1936 work “April March”, a novel with nine different beginnings…

creative writing for fun but not profit

Originally posted on Clerkenwell Writers Asylum:
I think most of us in the Writer’s Asylum are realistic about the limited opportunities for…

blog not updated regularly enough for you?

do feel free to sign up to my weekly flash fiction newsletter here – https://tinyletter.com/reticulatedmetalarms I’m an avid reader of similar …

don’t be scared

Originally posted on Clerkenwell Writers Asylum:
Of a blank screen. Theoretically I try and write something creative everyday. In practice I totally…

oops *hangs head in shame*

Excellent advice as usual from Chuck Wendig on why writers shouldn’t blog, and then we if you must – how …

the silver girl

Originally posted on Clerkenwell Writers Asylum:
I was woken up by a banging at my bedroom door, I bet myself Hetty had…

what does creative writing look like?

Originally posted on Clerkenwell Writers Asylum:
In creative writing groups and classes we often talk about and think about creative writing as…

actually I’m not at all sorry

That thing I wrote yesterday morning? Well it clearly unblocked something inside me, I went on to work on my …

oh dear. I’m sorry…

I do apologise for the story below, all I can say in mitigation is that Chuck made me do it. …

A rose by any other name

Originally posted on Clerkenwell Writers Asylum:
The Clerkenwell Writer’s Asylum inaugural writing prompt challenge! At our first regular meeting of 2015 last…

my review of the year

A brief post, which as this is a blog and as the role of blogs is to be solipsistic – …

ooh ooh thanks Chuck great prompt this week!

orange juice sharks and cucumber shotguns

As ever inspired by Chuck’s prompt here – using these photos from here. Obviously I got #16 Not totally happy …

emails not dead

I love email newsletters… Not including work related ones, I get Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations which is still going strong… …

Carter’s Blue

This was a quick one hour flash as usual inspired by Chuck Wendig’s great prompts here based on the names …

ten days in france

ten days in France unfortunately did not lead to me writing anything – despite several mornings when I could have. …

the rover returns (part two)

Not happy with this at all really, but I banged it out in about 40 minutes this morning, and it’s …

Yet another flash fiction challenge from Chuck Wendig, and again one that I’m itching to enter… Nothing yet though… Damn …

the rover returns

A very quick one, but my first creative writing in a few days “You bastard.” She set her mouth in …

quantum physics and coffee

This was written this evening after a couple of prompts/challenges from a friend. It had to feature physics (a weak …

nanothankyou

I doubt there is anyone reading this who hasn’t heard of Nanowrimo, if there is click the link. In brief …