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Tag Archives: writing
Howling into the Void
Yesterday, I lost words.
On Friday at Write-Club, I’d finished a 6000 word first draft of a story. I left it alone on Saturday to percolate. On Sunday I felt I’d give it a read over, maybe do some editing if the spirit moved me thus … which, happily, it did.
I started
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Tagged lost words, write club, writing
Review of 'Horn'
Peter Ball’s novella Horn, from punching-above-its-weight indie Twelfth Planet Press, got reviewed by the uber-redoutable (yes, ’redoubtable’ is my word’o’th’month) Jeff VanderMeer over at Ecstatic Days http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/06/24/first-and-short-horn-by-peter-m-ball/#more-5059.
Twelfth Planet Press http://twelfthplanetpress.wordpress.com/
Adelaide is Cold, but my Toe is Not Broken
I am sitting in a cafe in Adelaide’s Rundle Street, in excellent company: LL Hannett, Peter Ball and Jason Fischer. The company had better be excellet for it is freaking freezing here! We’re all writing, at different speeds, but we are writing (with intermittant yelling of ‘Why have you stopped writing???’). This works well. The second toe on my left
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Tagged adelaide, jason fischer, ll hannett, natcon, peter ball, sean willaims, writing
New story at The Daily Cabal 'Aeaea St' – a title for the uber-nerdly amongst ye …
They ran on all fours, pausing only to sniff the air and howl.
Sometimes they were men, sometimes wolves, always grey though, always hungry. The moon lit their way as they slipped like shadows along the streets. Sometimes they got distracted by trash cans ripe with enticing rot,
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Tagged aeaea st, short stories, the daily cabal, writing
Available for Pre-Order: 'Horn' by Peter Ball
It’s good – very good. I beta read it back in the days when I had time for that sort of indulgence. Go here http://twelfthplanet.livejournal.com/ and pre-purchase with impunity.
Tagged horn, peter ball, twelfth planet press, writing
Maths Not Being My Strong Point …
… I can generally spell, but numbers are not my friends – I find them sneaky and dishonest and unreliable. I don’t care if the Fibonacci Numbers have a cool name. I am, for all intents and purposes, innumerate.
However, I’ve been pulling the various bits of the novel together - in manner of Frankenstein’s monster – since I drew up the
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Tagged 42, douglas adams, novel, word count, writing
Jeff VanderMeer on Gaiman on George RR Martin and the Reader-Writer Contract
“I love this post by Neil Gaiman about entitlement, especially as concerns readers upset that George R.R. Martin hasn’t finished his latest novel in the bestselling series. It ain’t a science, the rate of burn-out is high, and anyone who thinks that just churning out novels is a good idea–either for readers or writers–is full of crap.”
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The Lifted Brow – Call for Submissions – The Atlas Issue
TLB6 is an atlas of the world, newly observed by lots of bands, writers, and artists that you like. Participation is easy:
1. Pick a country.
2. Send us fiction or nonfiction, a song, or a comic based on that country. The relationship of your piece to the country you pick can be as real, fake, or
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Writing Week – The Autopsy
So, here I sit back at work after a week away, doing nothing but writing.
Okay, I lie.
I didn’t just write. I threw temper tantrums. I ate astonishing amounts of choclit and consumed such vast quantities of sugar that for brief periods (before the inevitable sugar crash) I
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Tagged Booklife, goals, habit -v- process, jeff vandermeer, novel, peter ball, writing
Daily Cabal – Lantern
I hear a ship’s bell at night, no matter how I block my ears. It’s loud as a crying soul. I hear the rush of the sea, too, though this house is landlocked but for the pond and the well. It’s all connected, I guess, the water of the world.
We used to live on the coast, once,
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Tagged the daily cabal, writing
