ROLL ON SEPTEMBER
NEWS & UPDATES Goodbye, August! You sure did your best to throw spanners in our wheels, so truth be told I’m rather glad to close the books on you. The heat was unlike anything we’ve ever experienced here in London,…
MY SELF-PUBLISHING LESSONS
NEWS & UPDATES: I’ve sat down and attempted to write something like this multiple times now, and I thought my August 2022 update for As We Write would make an appropriate venue for my thoughtful musings and general reminiscing over…
VANCOUVER MOSQUITOS SUCK
FK MARLOWE NEWS 15 AUGUST, 2022 WHAT KIND OF MOSQUITO AM I? – Or, A Writer Rambles Down a Lane, Rambling Vancouver mosquitos suck. They just don’t do it nearly as expertly as Beijing ones. I’m walking the dog down…
ADD SALT FOR SWEETNESS
NEWS & UPDATES: Seclusion and experience, these are the poles between which writers are torn. The adage says that writers write and that is true. But it is also true that writers must have some well to draw from and…
ROLL ON AUGUST
NEWS & UPDATES Goodbye, July! And cheerio June, May, April and March. I can’t believe it’s been five months since I last wrote one of these news and updates posts. Or, indeed, that it’s been a full year this month…
CRANES, PIRATES AND TREE FROGS
LETO ARMITAGE NEWS 12 JULY, 2022 Greetings, July has arrived with the songs of tree frogs. Summer to me is the gothic south of sweltering nights where you feel the hot sweating breath of the world on your neck, a…
ALRIGHT, LISTEN UP NERDS
MW MCLEOD NEWS 11 JULY, 2022 The wild blog reader, in their natural habitat, stumbles upon the new page. Could it be? It looks like yes, it is M.W. McLeod’s July update. Let’s see what they make of it. A…
I CAN FEEL THE STORM COMING
FK MARLOWE NEWS 7 JULY, 2022 July for a horror writer should be hot; the sun a white, baleful eye that sees every sin and reaches fingers deep into the soil to find the rotting secrets buried there and bring…
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
MW MCLEOD NEWS 10 JUNE, 2022 Grey. I see nothing but grey all around me. Fog covers the ground in the strange, wide open liminal space of this purgatory. Black text, white background. Text, words, letters everywhere. The author died…
I AM NOT A WRITER
LETO ARMITAGE NEWS 13 JULY, 2022 I am not a writer, I am an exorcist. In June night falls late but the voices crowd where the shadows cast. An American in London selling smut. A lady’s maid who works at…
A HORROR WRITER’S JUNE
FK MARLOWE NEWS 7 JUNE, 2022 It’s a horror-writer’s June here in BC, with louring skies and torrential downpours one minute, sweltering heat the next. Not great for the flowers, but fantastic for the imagination, and mine is putting out…
THE SEASON OF TITS AND JOGGING BRAS
LETO ARMITAGE NEWS 14 MAY, 2022 With May comes spring and the annual cycle of flowers blooming, hockey ending and my ritual of watching for the first jogging bra of the season. ‘Trapped in the Stacks’, aka ‘TITS’ was re-published…
MAY, BLOSSOMS AND BIRDSONG
FK MARLOWE NEWS 5 MAY, 2022 Ah May! The blossoms! The birdsong! The torrential blimmin’ BC rain! Loathe to fall for pathetic fallacy as I am, I can’t help thinking the latter is linked to my side job of exam…
ROLL ON JANUARY
MILESTONES GOODBYE DECEMBER! I’ve been online for four months now to forge partnerships, find potential readers and engage in some kind of intellectual debate and social interaction with other writers. Covid style, of course. As December, and with it this…
ROLL ON DECEMBER
MILESTONES GOODBYE NOVEMBER! Three months into this creative writing adventure I’m beginning to think the Writing Community, particularly on twitter, is a pretty awesome place to call home. So, now that November is over it’s time for the monthly recap.…
ROLL ON NOVEMBER
GOODBYE OCTOBER! Two months into this adventure I’m touched and blown away by the kind and supportive reception I’ve received in the online WritingCommunity. I posted more work in progress (wip) chapters and daily InstaWrimo/ preptober blogposts in October. I…
TWO MONTHS TODAY
TWO MONTHS ago, I posted my first tentative hello on social media having been awol for a year. And, oh my days what a ride it has been! No word of a lie – I’m a little blown away and I…
1000 FOLLOWERS?
SOCIAL MEDIA is like a weird alternate reality. I love it and it fascinates me, but every time I think I know something about it, something happens to turn that knowledge on its head. One of these things that seem…
SEVEN WEEKS ONLINE
I KNOW I said I was going to stop these posts as I started the monthly milestones, but I guess I was a tad too excited. It feels right, somehow, to keep counting up to 1000. Provided I ever get…
ROLL ON OCTOBER
GOODBYE SEPTEMBER! Six weeks into this adventure, we’re still going forward and getting the wheels in motion. I’ve posted four work in progress chapters and a few blogposts. I’ve been semi active on social media and promoted my posts and…
