by Paul Stephenson | Apr 15, 2019 | Writing, Writing Chronicles
Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash Over the years, I’ve turned my hand to Science Fiction a number of times, with mixed results. I’ve written some stuff that seems pretty decent, and I’ve written a whole lot of turgidly dreadful nonsense. It is, then,...
by Paul Stephenson | Sep 25, 2018 | Writing, Writing Chronicles
Somewhere around the time that the world’s most powerful nation elected a direct hybrid of fascism and unwarranted white privilege as its leader, and my own country’s older generation decided to flush their descendants down a toilet of economic, social, and...
by Paul Stephenson | Mar 19, 2018 | Writing, Writing Chronicles
I’m back in the word mine once more, hacking away at the big bit of marble in front of me, trying to find the beauty within it. Except, this is a first draft, so it’s more like attacking a solid lump of tinned spaghetti with a broken chisel, flailing about randomly,...
by Paul Stephenson | Mar 13, 2018 | Writing, Writing Chronicles
I like writing in multi-narrative arcs. It’s just the way my mind works. Most of the time, though, it’s a bit like herding falafel or juggling the abstract concept of time. Still, I’m daft, so I do like a challenge. This week, as I’ve been going through a thousand...
by Paul Stephenson | Feb 26, 2018 | Writing Chronicles
Chronicles of Mar word count: 258,103 wordsOne of the weird things that I’ve discovered about trying to write a series in bits and pieces is that there is no longer the sense of beginning and ending. Which is weird, when you’re a storyteller. With the Blood on the...
