Any sorcerer will tell you: once there’s a demon in the room, all bets are off
Category: Writing
The first sentence, part 1: Gifted
I’ve been up all night while the cat’s still fresh...
The crap read
It’s the read-through where you realise that this book is a complete and utter disaster and nobody in their right mind could possibly get even to the bottom of the first page…
Fuckin’ up
The process of writing — at least as I practise it — is one of continual failure, and of the subsequent failure of all attempts to remedy that initial failure.
A monster rewrite
Like Frankenstein’s monster, it will shamble to its feet and start to move in a sinister fashion… until it falls over a chair