Obscurity

by | Oct 24, 2008 | Neil Gaiman

So tonight was the Neil Gaiman talk at the Open Rights Group event in Clerkenwell. I spent this morning writing but to be honest it wasn’t happening. I produced a short story of around fourteen hundred words but it wasn’t very good and I had been aiming to...

Characters

by | Oct 23, 2008 | Writing

Don’t you just hate it when your characters walk off the page and start moonlighting as a millionaire financiers determined to take down the shadow chancellor. I know I do. Yes, one of the main protagonists in Forever is called Nathaniel Rothschild. Or he...

Flash

by | Oct 20, 2008 | Blog, Not Friday Flash Fiction, Writing

I welcome and encourage feedback or more general discussion of the flash fiction on my site but just to be clear I don’t publish other writer’s fiction here, either as submissions or in the comment thread. Clearly I’m flattered if people feel...