I had two great dreams last night (one about a man in space that involved a Geiger counter and another involving supervillains) that I smooshed together in the shower, leaving me with an interesting concept I’m going to explore in a short story soon. I don’t know if anyone will answer this, but what the hell; if you are a writer, to what extent do your dreams influence your stories? I’m interested to see, because the good majority of what I write is extrapolated from dreams. Maybe writers of a certain genre follow certain themes in regards to inspiration.
Archive for January, 2008
And Chapter 2 is dooooown
January 28, 20082/7 chapters done. Revision is flying along. All reports indicate that it really improves the story, although further cutting will be necessary in a third draft. But that’s for the future! A section of Chapter 2 is behind the cut.
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New Year, the Toilet Maze, and onwards with Weathermen
January 6, 2008Well, 2008 came pretty fast. I’ve got two months now before uni begins again to edit the HELL out of Weathermen and get it into a 2nd draft stage; some folk have read through the draft manuscript and enjoyed it, but there’s a long way to go before the whole thing hangs together as a novel (as opposed to a set of connected scenes linked by flat characters).
In the meantime I’ve been busting out short stories, one of which I’ve sent off to Voiceworks magazine in the hope losing my publishing virginity. Here’s another I’ve been working on: this is only the first half of the first draft, but if you like it give me a yell and I’ll mail the rest for some hard critique.
Jump past the break for the first half of the short:
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