Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. The previous chapter, Interlude #2, was deliberately timed to hold the cliffhangerish ending of Cladogenesis for a little longer, before mostly resolving it here. This chapter has a lot of heavy lifting to Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Weird tangent chapter! We’re back with Wynton Simons. Except this time it all makes a bit more sense. ‘Interlude #1’ cropped up halfway through the first story arc and was designed to be Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Let’s talk comments. The major benefit of serialising a story and releasing it weekly like this is that you get a sense of readers interacting with the material. In the case of A Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Back in the flow of things this week, although this was one of those episodes that has to work really hard to not just be a load of exposition. ‘Instinct’ lays down a Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. And we return. Theoretically this is simply chapter 14. Really, though, it’s chapter 1 of the second story arc. If the first arc was about introducing the world and Kay getting caught up Read more…
I’ve been more productive in 2015 than the previous couple of years put together. This may have something to do with my son being a couple of years older and thus my brain being slightly less frazzled. Today I wrote a new short story, called ‘Brain the size of a walnut’. Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read all the writing notes here. Since April this year I’ve been writing a science fiction serial called A Day of Faces, which I’ve been publishing over on Wattpad. You can read it for free. Much like a physical cover in a bookshop, the Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. ‘Apex Predator’ marks the big finale for the first ‘story arc’ of A Day of Faces. If this was a book, it’d be the end of part one. If it were a comic, Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. After ‘Infection’s stealthy, heist-like shenanigans, ‘Lineage’ turns things up to 11 with a full-on shoot-out. Something that’s become a bit of a stylistic theme of A Day of Faces is having little mini Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Although there’ve been a couple of action-ish moments in previous chapters – the glimpsing of the rooftop fight, and Cal’s unfortunate encounter with Kay’s dad – those have been either mostly off-screen or Read more…