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…
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…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. This is one of those chessboard chapters, by which I mean it’s all about positioning the pieces just right. It’s setting up the series finale, which inherently involves a bit of exposition. The Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. The previous chapter was called interlude but actually raised a whole bunch of questions. This chapter acts as more of a natural pause, following on from the events of Nurture but taking a Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Unexpected narrative shift! Unexpected not just for readers but also for me, as this was a rather late addition to the story. There’s a broader story going on in the background of ADoF Read more…