Just crossed the 60k mark in my WIP. If I was writing literary fiction I would be done by now.
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Just crossed the 60k mark in my WIP. If I was writing literary fiction I would be done by now.
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Reading Infinite Jest and coming to the realisation that DFW was the closest thing to Mervyn Peake modern literature has produced.
Both Enfield and Gormenghast are examined to the point of madness, and both are full of characters that are grotesque.
Just crossed 50k words on my WIP as well as 50 consecutive days writing at least 500 words.
There is no better advice than “write every day”
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I loved Kaho, published in the New Yorker in 2024, so I’m delighted to hear Murakami’s next novel shares something of that story.
Loved this essay on Cheever and the New Yorker by @naokan.bsky.social.
Reading long literary essays like this are like revisiting those arguments I had back when I was an MFA student.
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www.woman-of-letters.com/p/money-and-...
Just reused scenes from a draft of a novella I originally wrote in 2014. Don’t ever delete anything.
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Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.
Eagle-eyes viewers will spot which IRL city the basic geography is based on.
And no one will notice I left No. 5 off the key.
A map of the main setting for my novel; the City of Night after the Fall.
The remnants of the Nightfolk live on one side of the canal while the other is ruled by the Kinless and the Dead.
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Thank you. Kind of a dark epic fantasy. In my head it’s A (Dark) Wizard of Earthsea set in an adult version of Garth Nix’s Old
Kingdom
Yesterday I finished the first draft of Part One of my novel:
Part I.
The Swift Descent of the Sun
30k words done. 100k to go.
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Great insight into one of the best to ever do it from her own son.
Of particular insight is the point that she was capable of changing and understanding how she had changed (in a way few others are able to or willing to do.)
VAYAL THE HUNTER is a sword and sorcery novella with modern sensibilities (and genderless frog-people(; 35k words currently in late stages of revision
DMs open to beta readers/swappers, agents, small presses etc.
A giant centipede weaves its way around a tree adorned in broken human bodies Credit Angelina Zhogina
A humanoid frog-person stands with a wizard's hat and staff in hand Credit: Bri on Pinterest
An enormous tree stands and a small, human figure in red stands before it Credit Blanca Parra
An iconograph of a man in a boat fishing with a spear. Vicious aquatic creatures swarm around his boat. Credit: Parker Rayl
Vayal would have been chieftain, if it wasn’t for his brother’s betrayal. Now an arrogant exile and mercenary, he finds a way to restore his destiny: slaying the Creature, a shapeshifting demon that destroys villages.
But the Creature is far more devious than he can imagine...
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You simply cannot miss with a deeply weird city
Ooh, if fantasy murder mysteries in a deeply weird city with an oddball but loveable cast is your thing, Looks like MORTEDANT'S PERIL is up on Netgalley. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
The existential fear of leaving an Excel cell blank can be the greatest tool in a writer’s arsenal.
Only one writing goal this year: finish the first draft of The City of Night.
16k in, so c. 110k to go
Hopefully we get Legacies of Betrayal in 2026
Best fantasy reads of 2025 for me:
No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson
City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social
Fugitive Prince by @jannywurts.bsky.social
Written on the Dark and Under Heaven by
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Blade of Dreams by @abraham.bsky.social
#DecemberWorldbuilders
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Another map from my WIP “The City of Night.”
This one shows the city itself and its hinterlands, where the greatest concentration of the remnant Nightfolk make their homes.
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The map for my epic fantasy WIP “The City of Night.” Ce Nattad after the Fall
The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”
The older I get, the more convinced I become that Songs About Leaving is the best album ever made.
This epigraph in Bolaño’s Nazi Literature in the Americas
Children of Men?
My wife bought me these amazing Folio Society editions of the first three Earthsea books by @ursulakleguin.bsky.social for my birthday