Weird Lies Advance Press

Weird Lies

A few years back, when I was writing literary not adventure fic, a couple of my Stories made the cut at Liars' League. One of them: Haiku Short, Parakeet Prawns, Konnichiwa Peter has made it into an anthology called Weird Lies which will be published later in the   year by Arachne Press. Which is nice.

I, Idiot

Laptop died and I'm not sure if I made a back up of the novel's finished 1st draft. Think I did, but won't know for sure until I can check all my HDs and USB sticks. I'm sure I did, but won't be that bothered if I didn't as it would be no great loss to literature. :D

I, Novelist

This morning I wrote 2,374 of the easiest words I ever wrote, the last two of which were 'The End'. 

I have written my first novel. 

At 64,815 words it's a short novel, but the longest finished piece I've ever written. I have completed short stories/novelettes at 12,000 words and under, and I also have two unfinished novels at 54k words, and 39k words languishing in the virtual trunk. But at 64k words this is my longest finished work. 

It is of course shit, but it's finished shit and as my favourite sweary blogging writer Chuck Wendig says finishing your shit is one of the Secret's to Writing. As is trying not to suck. So I shall edit, and rewrite my shit novel, and that will probably make it at least 10% less shit, but no matter how shit it is I can take consolation in the fact that Hemingway said 'the first draft of anything is shit' and as shit as it is it's still a thousand times better than any number of unfinished novels!

Yet Another Reason to Like Scott Lynch . . .

. . . apart from the excellent Gentlemen Bastards series there's also this!