- TTLY: Old posts
Two Years of Brologueing
Tag: writing
I Don’t Like Backlogs, Actually
A six minute ramble:
- Backlogs are Not Antilibraries: I am not humbled by them, I am threatened;
- Backlogs are Eerie: The intentionality in here is making my hair stand on end…
- TTLY…: Vintage posts.
Terry Pratchett’s ‘A Blink of the Screen’
A little 10 minute review of ‘A Blink of the Screen,’ with highlights:
- There’s No Fool Like an Old Fool in an English Queue: English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish; all queues on this isle of ours are nightmares;
- Twenty Pence, With Envelope and Seasonal Greeting: the Christmas of 1843 was a weird ‘un;
- Theatre of Cruelty: That’s the way to do it!;
- The Sea and Little Fishes: Headology 101.
- TTLY…: Vintage posts
Some Ramblings on Form in Writing
A ten-minute ramble on making sense on form… and function? Maybe? As a treat?
- TTLY…: Vintage posts.
Mnemonics, Divination, and the Return of the Secret Strings
The secret strings are the means by which all is revealed…
- Microfiction, as prompts;
- Why writing tools like tarot feel a bit like Michael Rosen’s secret strings game…
- TTLY: My old posts.
The Light King’s Tale – The Right to Krei
The second short story from Boardmier, my fantasy world. My submission for my first Writing Prose 2 assignment at St. Andrews University.
CONTENT WARNING: verbal abuse, death, trauma.
Continue readingGet These (Authorial) Voices Out Of My Head
A little seven minute aperitif on the voices at an author’s disposal when writing. Also, satire.
Continue readingChasing the Audience
A seven-minute post on:
- Audiences, and where I (might) find them;
- Twiddling – and the dilemma up-and-coming artists didn’t ask to be put in;
- TTLY…: Old posts.
Problem in Character, Not in Speech: When Terry Pratchett Missed
An 18-minute Zen on:
- Eye Dialect Reprise: Pratchett’s iconic character voices were made so through eye dialect;
- But.: And this is a big but;
- The Turtle Grows: “Cancelled” is just a euphemism for “I refuse accountability.”
Chessworld: An Annotated Bibliography of the Courier and Their World, ‘The Board’
