Pete threw down the EMF meter in disgust. The needle lay at the neutral end of the scale. Six hours of staring at it, and the damn thing refused to move. He hoped he could find the receipt when he got home. Pete made another circuit of the room. His objects remained where he’d planted […]
Fowlis Westerby
Waging War on the Editing Demon
Back in November 2008, I finished writing my first novel. I already had two unfinished novels to my name, but I have to give some credit to NaNoWriMo for impelling me to actually get to ‘The End’ – without the daily ‘deadlines’ required to make the minimum 50,000 words by the beginning of December, I […]
Shameless Self Promotion
Today, it is my turn to be unveiled as part of the new Chinese Whisperings project! It’s really rather exciting, seeing oneself on a web page that’s not yours (and, I would venture to guess, less confusing than seeing yourself appear someone distinctly unpleasant). If you’d like to take a look, have a wander over […]
I write, therefore I am…or something.
Receptionists will tell you they are receptionists. Solicitors will tell you they are solicitors. Yet writers will tell you they’re “trying to write”, or they’re “working on being a writer”. They rarely own up to what they actually are. If you write, then you’re a writer. It’s that simple. (For a better explanation of this […]
