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Today’s snippet from Heavy Ice: Vane looked around. The balcony was not precisely full of people. It was more that a crowd was pressed out around its back edges, like a nervous pie-crust. The front of the balcony was conspicuously … Continue reading
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Flowery
As the first draft of Heavy Ice lumbers towards completion, there are things I begin to realise. One of them is that I could write flowery declarations of love when I was fourteen; but now I am forty-one (or at … Continue reading
Nondescript
I have somehow managed so far to put in no physical description at all of one of the major characters of Heavy Ice, because every time he’s around we’re deep in his personal viewpoint and he’s got things on his … Continue reading
It’s like she’s a were-Father Jack
Number of f-bombs dropped so far in the book: 33 Number of f-bombs dropped by people other than Kallisty: 3, two from Rafe and one from Kallisty’s friend Bhoomi. It’s a good thing on the whole that I don’t write … Continue reading
Today’s writing snippet
Today’s quote, which comes out of an otherwise somewhat messy chapter that I have to go through with a pair of shears: Rafe put steel in his voice. “I’ll ask you again. If I surrender to you, will you give … Continue reading
Things I am doing right now
Writing a sex scene from a man’s point of view. I don’t think I’ve done this since I was about fourteen. It’s very weird. I keep second-guessing myself: it’s all very well writing confidently about the details of riding across … Continue reading
Return of the blog
I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting this blog since July. Let’s just blame Mr Foo the Lovable Pixie for that and move on. Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s writing: “I have knowledge you need. You have knowledge I need. Truce?” “I … Continue reading
Failing to build a coherent brand
So, Firebrand is off with Team Beta and out of my headspace for the time being. Heavy Ice is still mired in the mud of ‘Why didn’t I realise two years ago that this needed a lot more worldbuilding and … Continue reading
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Saturday snippet: Firesmoke Soup
One of these days I will be organised enough, and get up in time, to do Six Sentence Sunday like Jasmine Ahern does – I always enjoy looking through the posts and seeing the excerpts from so many different kinds … Continue reading
