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Faux headlines, 31/05/19
More six-word fake news headlines. Except these days they’re not very fake. The sheer scale of what’s happening in the world makes writing about any of it challenging. Whatever you write, it sounds like crass exaggeration. Populations voting massively for groups which take away women’s rights, children’s rights, freedom of movement and labour; governments withdrawing from promises made when we…
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D- Darkness falls (Align the Stars in Morley High Street, part 4)
D- Darkness falls (Align the Stars in Morley High Street, part 4)
A week previously.
“It’s the perfect time. Everyone is but a neck, suspending eyes over a screen. Necks are exposed, vulnerable, easy to crack.”
Callum accepted some more wine from his girlfriend’s stepdad and avoided replying by sniffing it.
“Don’t pretend the smell means anything to you,” Keith said with a smile. He returned like a king to his seat at the head of the table. “I know you prefer…
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C - The Call
C – The Call
The call, when it came, wasn’t even for her. The doorbell woke Karen at three in the afternoon, ringing again and again as if someone were punching it with the flat of their hand. She grabbed at her phone, an antique Nokia with an inch-wide green screen which did nothing except make calls and send texts. The thing was twenty years past its replacement date, as everyone who saw it told her, but…
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B - Boring day. (Align the stars in Morley High Street, part 2)
B – Boring day. (Align the stars in Morley High Street, part 2)
Callum liked digging. The literal unearthing of ancient things – what could be better? Gold earrings or pottery, it didn’t matter, what was important was finding them. Revealing history, he called it. “All of history is there, under the grass, under the concrete. All we have to do is get out the JCB.”
“Fantastic,” said Temple when this latest dig began. “Except there are no JCBs, yeah, because…
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A – Align the Stars in Morley High Street part 1
A – Align the Stars in Morley High Street part 1
Excavating a crypt is dangerous work, especially when it’s occupied. Reverend John Small carried a lamp and pickaxe, and checked every couple of minutes that his phone still had signal. Even so, he felt a crushing presence all around him, and called often upon the Lord for strength, or even better, for protection.
Rev Small used to consider his fight against evil to be metaphorical – a battle…
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Microfiction theme: social housing
Microfiction theme: social housing. Tweet fics highlighting stories from the homeless crisis.
Blue wall of a building, many windows
Since mid December my daily tweet fics have been about people living in temporary accommodation, waiting for proper housing. The escalating crisis of people, especially families, being placed in bed and breakfast rooms for long periods, seems sharper than ever in winter.
The press has been full of articles about people in temporary accommodation and…
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Nanowrimo - week four euphoria
Nanowrimo – week four euphoria
Boy this is late. So late. There are reasons, including a purely practical technical one, but never mind. In the spirit of finishing what I start, here is the final part of the Nanowrimo motivation series.
This is it.
You have made it, or nearly made it. Nine more days and you will have succeeded in an endeavour most people do not even begin to attempt. Be proud.
Day 22 – make sure your wordcount…
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Nanowrimo - week three support
Nanowrimo – week three support
This week is the worst. you’ll be at the middle of your novel, if you’re lucky (I am usually at the very start of the middle) and here is where things get real. The stuff you’ve spend thousands of words setting up, must now pay off. But you are tired, and washing up, laundry and undone housework is piling up around you. So let’s go.
Day 15. Write the final scene. I’m not kidding. If you don’t do…
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Nanowrimo - week two consolation
Nanowrimo – week two consolation
Day 8. You are not even halfway through this thing and you’re flying along. Ten thousand or so words under your belt. Keep writing. Keep tracking it both on your tracker sheet, and of course on the Nano website. Check out your buddies’ progress bars.
Day 9. If you haven’t got an avatar for the Nanowrimo website, make one now. And write!
Day 10. Donate to Nanowrimo and gain yourself a little…
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Nanowrimo - week one motivation
Nanowrimo – week one motivation
Want to get through the first seven days of National Novel Writing Month? Start here.
Day 1. If you haven’t declared your novel’s title, excerpt and premise on the Nanowrimo website, do this. Use the first part of your first chapter and your working title. You can finesse this later. And write. Blitz 1667 words. If your enthusiasm drives you to write extra words, just go for it. Forget that…
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Prize and privilege
One of the most prestigious writing prizes has just been awarded. For the first time it’s gone to a writer from Northern Ireland. So far so good.
But as usual two things are putting me off reading a prize winning novel. OK, one thing puts me off reading, the other makes me think about privilege, which also puts me off.
First thing: this book is described as challenging to read, with few paragraph…
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Friday fics - faux news
Friday fics – faux news
Another blustery week in international news culminating in some people not leaving ahead of one big event, assuming that it would not be that big. Meanwhile some other people are flocking to an event despite it definitely being unimportant. Cakes have headlined twice. Some six- and ten- word headlines, then. For daily microfiction, find me on Twitter – look at #vss365.
That’s it for this…
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Nanowrimo planning - conquer your plot
Nanowrimo planning – conquer your plot
Are you tempted by Nanowrimo – the completion of a novel’s first draft in just 30 days – but find it hard to stay on track once the initial rush of frenetic writing has worn off? Do you find it hard to sustain your energy for the required 50,000 words in just one month? Do you end up with a story that’s front-heavy, with lots of setup and character development, and then a rushed ending so you…
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Friday fic - faux news
Friday fic – faux news
Some six and ten word stories here, reflecting a week in the news.
I’ll be back next week with more. October is nearly here and that means Nanowrimo. It also means I need to get my skates on to achieve any of my plans for 2018. Meanwhile I’ll keep writing. More next week!
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Friday fic - six word stories
Friday fic – six word stories
This week’s faux news – six-word stories inspired by the week’s events.
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How to make a book, or create a new form
How to make a book, or create a new form
A postcard from an imaginary journey. Here, George complains about his lack of handkerchiefs, while the Wyverns close in. A collection of these might make a physical book.
Most writing these days seems to be created using a computer, or at least an electronic device of some kind. I do mine on my phone. It’s consumed on paper or on an electronic device. Making a book involves writing a large…
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How to write a classic fantasy - Day Boy and Night Girl
How to write a classic fantasy – Day Boy and Night Girl
Classic fantasy – The Day Boy and The Night Girl
I read the classic tale The Day Boy and the Night Girl recently, having remembered it from an old Andrew Lang book of Fairy Tales I read as a child. As a child I worked my way through my local library’s collection of these fairytale books in many colours – violet, yellow, blue, scarlet– as my grandmother did in her own childhood in the 1930s. This…
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