It’s Halloween and we have a sort of party in progress – an All Hallows Read – an idea started by Neil Gaiman where people give horror books for Halloween. We haven’t been very good at remembering the books as the kids – ours and other peoples hurtle about or sit sit absorbed into the […]
This month I am taking part in a writing challenge called GothNoWriMo – where you write a gothic or horror novel in a month. We are two thirds of the way through this month and I am struggling a bit, there has been alot of other stuff going on from working at the Cheltenham Literature […]
This is an amazing visual of Tudor London and absolutely epic story fodder or if you all ready have a story you are working on that is set in this time period, then this is essential viewing! The effort that has gone into creating this is amazing and it has apparently won awards. For me […]
WE I wrote a couple of shorts, a couple of poems and then I hit a snag – one of the stories based on a nightmare I had, kind of didn’t want to be a flash fiction, nor a short story as it turned out. Nope it wants to be a novel or a novelette […]
I can’t remember where I saw the call for story ideas now – weather it was via twitter or the leaflet I picked up about the Brum Lit Fest when I was delivering my Cuddly Science puppet show and workshop at the British Science Festival (I was in the library) or via some other random […]
It is GothNoWriMo and I am attempting to write lots of horror and/or spooky halloween themed stuff this month – I am also sorting ideas for future writings 🙂 So here are my 30 story ideas for the younglings: 1) Dino Raw 2) Alien’s Landing 3) The Dragon Over There 4) The Goo 5) Vampyra’s […]
Thought I’d just collect some story ideas together: So we have mythical creatures, other dimensions, historical figures with gruesome acts attached to their names, murderers, being lost and fearing nothing at all, being locked in with your own guilt, plague, change, torture and suspense. There is a question of who populates the story – warewolf, […]
I love my writing challenges and October is GothNoWriMo, a challenge not unlike NaNoWriMo which is NAtional Novel Writing Month where you attempt to do write a novel in a month (who knew!). GothNoWriMo is an unofficial gothic version which runs in October – I like doing it as a warm up for Nano. Previous […]
Well the monster cards for the game I’ve designed are on order and I am looking into print on demand as well as having my own bulk stock. Photos as soon as they are here and they will be going sold here and in my etsy shop 🙂 I want to produce an app version […]
Music can be a great source of inspiration to writers, why not have a look at your music collection. List the names of ten albums or the bands themselves. Use this list to write from. Write the album name as a title adn begin to write, don’t worry about what the album actually is about […]