Watch The Truman Show with my year 9 class this week, and for the most part, we had a blast. There were the fairly predicable groans of ‘We don’t understand what’s going on!’ for the first half, but I just keep reminding them to wait and see, and to trust the story. When the Big […]
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If you’ve been hanging around here or on Twitter with me for any great length of time, you’re bound to have heard me mumbling about my novel Sanctuary at least once or twice. Well, this week’s short story up on Darkness & Good is your first official introduction: Another Kind of Hunger takes place a
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Forgot to post here that there are a couple more stories up on Darkness & Good. Wreath-Bearer is set in a world that I one-day plan to write a novel in, when I’m a much, much better writer, because the idea is… complex. But this short story introduces the key idea of the world: the spirits
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How many of you know Krista D. Ball? She’s an amazing author who writes very fun field guides for other authors (along with assorted fiction of course). These aren’t the typical How To Write A Book books, these are well researched, in-depth looks at things you never stopped to think about. Like, what did Aragorn
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Long-time readers will know that I am a BIG fan of author Holly Lisle’s various how-to-write courses. I have literally taken every single course that she has ever offered, and her method of teaching just really gels with the way that I learn, and the way that I write. To me, it’s intuitive, flexible and
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Wow, can you tell I’m on holidays or what? ANOTHER new story up for you at the Darkness and Good blog! Yay! *o/* You can blame this one on my sister’s tumblr, particularly this image here. I was reminiscing last night about how the internet is totally a microcosm (macrocosm?) of life, and how it
Yup. It’s about that time, two thirds of the way through the manuscript*, when I just want to murder the book and have it over with. “Why did I sign on to write this again?” I ask myself. “Who thought this was a good idea?” And, most importantly, “WILL THIS NEVER END???” Which is not
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New short story up on Darkness and Good. Liana just posted one yesterday, too, so you get a double dose to make up for the fact that we hadn’t posted in two weeks O:) When War Came To Town is a short story in my Powers cycle. If you’ve ever read my flash fic Forget,
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An ex-student asked me about the pros and cons of being an English teacher, as they are considering it as a career path. Basically, this: Pro: books and DVDs are tax deductible. Con: You will never have enough time to read/watch them all. Pro: HOLIDAYS. Con: Term time. Pro: HOLIDAYS. Con: MARKING. Death. Destruction. DIE,
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So, this is a story I’ve been mulling over for quite a long time, but it’s taken until now for the right shape and form to appear. Those of you who’ve had the privilege (*snort*) of reading anything in the Mercury story world will recognise the main character, Deviran – only in this story he’s
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