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Tag Archives: writing
Dear Edgar 41 ~ The Gold Bug
To an extent then, this Poe story shorted the second world war and saved the lives of many allied soldiers… Which is almost enough to forgive its flaws… And certainly more than the DeVince code ever managed to do. Continue reading
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The Humpty Dumpty Controversy
I have questions, many questions, but lets consider first why did Humpty fall. Obviously, people do fall off walls we know, but in general not just because they are just sat on them. In actuality, sitting on walls is not an inherently risky proposition. Continue reading
Posted in big questions, humour
Tagged books, conspiracy, family, humour, humpty-dumpty, life, nursery-rhymes, reads, writing
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To be a Writer
To be a writer you have to write, it really is as simple and as complicated as that. Continue reading
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Tagged books, creative-writing, writer, writers, writerslife, writing, writing-tips, writingtips
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The cost of AI
The use and proliferation of AI is decimating creative communities Continue reading
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10 years down the Lane
Ten years ago this month I published my first novel. I wrote it in July the year before, then spent a year redrafting it several times, while trying to convince myself it wasn’t just a mid-life crises project. I had always wanted to write a novel, I been writing for the better part of three decades, but now I had actually written one. It was finished it was done , it was as good as I could make it. The only thing left to do was to send it out into the world. It was terrifying… Continue reading
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Dear Edgar 35 ~ The Oval Portrait
On occasion, when you spend time in the company of dead authors, you come across an obscure little story that inspired something far more well known. Occasionally the original feels like it is a pastiche of the more famous work. … Continue reading
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The post-con collapse
Working a convention is exhausting. I am not alone in this. Almost every author I know has much the same story. Conventions are draining, much I suspect because writers tend not to be the kind of people who are naturally … Continue reading
Dear Edgar 34 # Three Sundays in a Week
Occasionally, amid explorations of obsession and madness, horror and satire, existentialism and human frailty… You just need to tell a ridiculous tall tale or two to keep yourself amused. Nothing could be even slightly problematic about that could it… Well… … Continue reading
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New Book, Conventions, and an update
Occasionally, just occasionally, everything all comes at once. Which is why I have an ear infection, am currently deaf on my left side, feel like curling up in a dark room under a blanket, just as I have the busiest … Continue reading
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Dear Edgar 33 – Eleonora
The One remains, the many change and pass;Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Our dear Edgar, as you are doubtless aware, was something of a romantic, or at … Continue reading
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