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I won a thing!
Not a writing thing, but I won BOOKS! Which to be honest, is pretty much on par. ESPECIALLY when those books are written by one Alan Baxter. For context, I somehow missed Alan’s books up until last year. I know. Dark fantasy, horror, and weird fiction. And somehow I had…
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Improving your writing when you’re not ‘Writing’
This is my way of saying ‘Sorry!” for not posting as much as I’d like to. Over the last few months, I’ve committed to several different writerly things. I’ve finished structural edits on three novels (not mine), committed to making at least the 50% mark on my current WIP, posting…
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A Kraken Good Time
This month’s Furious Fiction! Proudly brought to you by . . .well, me again. And possibly my first day at sea for a few years. As I’m no longer in the Navy as a full time gig, and with a number of other factors in the background, I don’t get…
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The Atlasian Fate (Glosa)
So this is a really interesting form that I had a lot of fun with. It’s based on a stanza of an existing poem, an writes six line verses that start an end with the sequential line of the original stanza. As with the others, this is from the perspective…
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Friends Underfoot (Triversen)
Before I start, I should explain – my poetry (at least so far) is from the perspective of two fictional characters. In this case, it’s a soldier from Third Ypres. Also, Triversen – six sentences, each split over three lines – is another form I’ve not done before, so hopefully…
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Brothers in Arms (Pantoum)
Brothers in arms eternal, or so we are told Orders barked at kids, standing awkward in a line From the day we sign on, until we get old We are brothers in arms, made so by our time Orders barked at kids, standing awkwardly in a line Shrill whistle…
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Hope + Time
Another Furious Fiction story! This month was the usual 500 words and 55 hours, with the parameters of containing a train (I pushed the definition of that a little), containing three three-word sentences in a row, and containing something frozen. Enjoy! Eyes as blue as the ice walls that surround…
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Indecision
I’ve thought long and hard about putting this one up. It was for my Experimental Literature subject at Uni, and it was . . .well, experimental. Fair warning, it deals with some sensitive issues – drugs, suicide, violence etc. It also gets kind of dark at times, and to be…
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Unwanted – Furious Fiction June 2019
Another 55 hours, another 500 words. The tight schedule was even more compressed this time by two day trips to Sydney – one for work, the other for the So You Want To Be A Writer Live event – but I managed to get it done, and I’m cautiously optimistic…
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The functional power of Nostalgia
Or: Making The Past Great Again I’m at that stage of parenthood that has way too many sentences that start with ‘Back in my day’, or ‘When I was growing up’, or something similar. Now, I’m not that old. Early thirties. Cars that were of the same vintage are only…
Nathan J Phillips 