I’ve not had a huge amount of time for writing these last few years, and what time I have made, I’ve spent on longer form stuff that will likely never see the light of day! The two shorter pieces I’ve written have been specifically for anthologies. The first, published last year in my local writer’s […]Read Post ›
Glasgow was the host city for this year’s Worldcon – the world’s biggest sci fi / fantasy festival. Writers and fans of genre fiction descended on Glasgow en masse for five days to discuss, network and generally geek out. unfortunately had a bunch of other things on, but I did make it to the launch […]Read Post ›
I have a new story up over at Little Blue Marble. It’s a very short piece, written from the perspective of a young child, so it makes for a quick and easy read, although worth noting the subject matter isn’t necessarily light! There is a double meaning to the title – a bit of a […]Read Post ›
Partly inspired by a grim realization about the finite number of books I’ve got left to read given an average life expectancy – it’s been a good year for reading for me, both in terms of quantity and quality. The Stand by Stephen King Started the year by finishing off a book that had taken […]Read Post ›
I made some interactive fiction! Check it out here. It’s less Adventure Call and more of a financial management game embedded in a couple of sci-fi concepts. Maximum play through length comes in less than 4,000 words so I guess average playing time would be 15-20 minutes. I made it using Choice Script, which was […]Read Post ›
This book is nothing at all like Kiki’s Delivery Service, but for a novel unlike anything I’ve experienced before, it’s as good a jumping off point as any. A naïve villager in a big city. A quasi love interest. A lushly realized world. Extreme weather. Talking cats. A tense, airship centric finale. I’m choosing my […]Read Post ›
I have a new story up at Daily Science Fiction! It’s my third publication there, and the first with a conventional narrative structure. It’s a good example of the short stories I like to write these days – very short, psychological sci-fi in the vein of Philip K Dick. I have a few others like […]Read Post ›
My writing buddies at GSFWC wrote a prompt list for Inktober, to be used as inspiration for drawings, writings or whatever creative itch they set a-tingling in one’s skin. I started off in a fairly impulsive, tongue in cheek direction, but things evolved into a bigger narrative (still with tongue firmly in cheek) Drawing’s clearly […]Read Post ›
Well, obviously 2020 has been a relentless waking nightmare of a year, but on a personal level it’s been a relatively good one. As a ‘key worker’ I’ve had the advantage of a steady income and routine, and the bairn has been a source of beautiful variety in the monotony of life in lockdown. Writing […]Read Post ›
Checksum (n): a digit representing the sum of the correct digits in a piece of stored or transmitted digital data, against which later comparisons can be made to detect errors in the data. Merriam-Webster, 2019 I spent a lot of writing energy last year trying to learn how to write stories that would sell. As […]Read Post ›
Don Redwood 