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Tag Archives: writerslife
The Telling Deck: A Guest Post from Will Nett
Will Nett, not the one who ran away form the Spanish armada, the other one… with a guest blog on tarot cards, possibly, or just general Will Nett witter, which is good witter we have to say. Continue reading
Posted in amreading, amwriting, druidry, fiction, indie writers, pagan, reads, supernatural, writes
Tagged arcane, reads, sprirtualisum, tarot, writers, writerslife, writing
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The Writers Life : An Honest Conversation
What is success, well for me it is readers, it has always been readers. You have to find your own way to judge your success. But as a community writers need to be more honest with each other. ‘Fake it until you make it’ is all very well except that builds false expectations against which we measure ourselves. And that is damaging. Continue reading
Posted in amwriting, depression, indie writers, indiewriter, opinion, writes, writing
Tagged writer, writers, writerslife, writing, writingtips
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An old beautiful thing and a terrible one
Last weekend I was in Stroud attending their annual steampunk event, doing the author thing and a certain amount of prating about. It was a lot of fun, as such events always are. On this occasion I took with me an old beautiful thing and a terrible one. Well a stack of terrible ones, but lets talk about the old beautiful thing first.. Continue reading
It…
It watches…
It would be wrong to say it is waiting.
Waiting would imply it was waiting for something. That it desired something. Desire is an emotion, want is an emotion. Emotions are not something it experiences. To have emotions requires a frame of reference for emotion is a reaction.
It does not react.
It does not desire.
It does not want… Continue reading
Posted in amreading, amwriting, big questions, fiction, Passing Place, reads, sci-fi, supernatural, writes, writing
Tagged amreading, books, fiction, Passing Place, reads, sciencefiction, writerslife, writing
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Book reviews beyond the paradigm
What it it was easy to change our lives? What if happiness wasn’t an impossible dream to chase after? What if we could have nice things?
or something like that Continue reading
Posted in amreading, big questions, depression, fiction, indie writers, pagan, reads
Tagged amreading, books, pagan, reads, writerslife, writing
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Quote the darkness, Evermore
We are in the midst of summer, darkness is hard to find when the nights are short and the days are long. Sleep is hard to come by, the rhythms of the body match the seasons. Now is not the time to sleep, now is the time to hunt, to gather, to partake of the rich bounty of the summer and prepare for the what will inevitably come once more.. This is not a time to think of darkness, this is the time to celebrate the light… So here are some quotes about darkness, in all its many forms. Continue reading
Posted in 2020 quotes, amreading, humour, mental-health, opinion, quotes, reads
Tagged amreading, quotes, quoting, reads, writerslife
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Playwriting
So this is me, a writer of novels and short stories who doesn’t perform…
Then for reasons I wrote a play and even more weirdly I performed in it. I’d deny everything, but it was filmed and someone put it on You tube. So enjoy the one and only time I will be caught performing, and my sole and last venture in to Play writing. Continue reading
Posted in amwriting, Lovecraft, mental-health, rites, steampunk
Tagged humour, steampunk, writer, writerslife, writing
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Dear Edgar #8 Berenice
…she roaming carelessly through life with no thought of the shadows in her path, or the silent flight of the raven-winged hours. Berenice! — I call upon her name — Berenice! — and from the grey ruins of memory a thousand tumultuous recollections are startled at the sound! Ah! vividly is her image before me now, as in the early days of her light-heartedness and joy! Oh! gorgeous yet fantastic beauty! Oh! Sylph amid the shrubberies of Arnheim! Continue reading
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Tagged amreading, Dear Edgar, Edgar Alan Poe, gothic, horror, Poe, reads, sciencefiction, writerslife, writing
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The battle of the bottle bridge
Originally posted on The Hopeless Vendetta:
By Mark Hayes In the aftermath of broken bottles and stamped on night potatoes no one was entirely sure what had happened. No one even admitted to having been there. The most anyone would…
Posted in amreading, fantasy, fiction, reads, steampunk, writes, writing
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Notebooks and Scribblings
Hello. My name is Mark, I am a note-a-holic… Here’s some very random short scriblings (bare in mind these are not even first drafts, they are at best the equivalent of an artists sketch, trying to get an idea out for a first draft to follow, they are rough and ill-formed. Welcome to some of the odder bits of my mind… Continue reading
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