Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Yuletide is here again. Well, technically it has just passed, as the days are once again growing longer. The festive season is festooned with distractions. Work parties, family gatherings, buying gifts. Wrapping gifts, which, when it comes down to it, do I actually enjoy? I enjoy finishing the …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! My collage assembly plus extras has gained some momentum, so I am making good progress. There has in the process of doing this work been an ever-growing sense of unease. I’ve come to a conclusion or two about where it was coming from, and what to do about …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I watched an interesting video on why folk do not read self-published fantasy. You can watch it here. I get the concerns of readers. I understand the option offered by published works, and the great undiscovered fantasies of the past, of around the world. There’s a lot there …
Continue reading An Unexpected Path to Literary Freedom. (Spoiler Alert – it’s Obscurity!)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Writing a novel is often a question of timing and willpower. I’m at that cross-roads right now. I’ve been putting together the collage of pieces and the opening is taking firmer shape with later chronology tightening. I’m beginning to do pieces of connective writing and elaboration. My pre-story …
Continue reading Willpower, Timing, and a Return to Strange Highways
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Last couple of days to snag a cheap kindle version of The Killer and The Dead! “Get them while they’re cooling on the slab!” Mortuary joke. The lead character works there, when he’s not, you know, offing people to keep his family fed. The ungrateful swine. Happy Hallowe’en …
Hello my friends and the occasional relative! Second October sale of ebook version of The Killer and The Dead starts later this week! Check it out! I have begun to assemble my collage of pieces that will become The Red Palace this week. Why, because I wrote a section that ended with the single biggest …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! First off, the first of two October sales of The Killer and The Dead starts tomorrow! (UK and US) 1st to 8th of October. Start off the spooky season with a serial killer facing down the undead and his own familial dysfunction! You know you want to. I …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Writing is about belief. Belief in yourself, that you have something worthwhile to say, and the ability to express it well enough that other minds, hearts, people, could be touched by the words you have put to paper. Your thoughts, your emotions, become glyphs to be viewed and …
Continue reading Riffing on belief in writing, and a confused relationship with whales.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This week, this week. I've exercised more, eaten more cleanly. (Not clean, might I add, but better!) Been in touch with family and friends. Worked. Practiced pool using shot specific cards, read Scottish fairy tales. Done my first experimental narration of The Gardener and The Goddess. Believe me …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Dio song as origin of this blog's title. I took an unannounced week off here, because I took a week off there, in work-land. I had high hopes for this week. My pool game continues to improve. I really need to start blogging about that so I can …
Continue reading It’s like broken glass, you get cut before you see it…
Roderick T. Macdonald 