Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. The specifics of the fight in this chapter remained fluid even as I wrote it. Originally the actual fighting was going to be more protracted and ‘actiony’, rather than a mostly accidental flailing Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Interesting thing here is that it’s the first time that I changed something after publishing. The mention of ‘slushy romance novels’ was originally about kids adventure books. It felt wrong when I wrote Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Cal was originally going to be entirely delirious, and remain injured for a long while. The idea of having the injury fall off along with the wings came about during the writing. That Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. With this chapter, it was all about racing to catch up with the publishing schedule, while assaulted on all sides by unavoidable crap things. So on top of a hectic work schedule, I Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Action is always easier to write. That’s why the word count on chapter 3, ‘Prey’, is almost double that of the previous two sections. After the gentle everyday stuff (plus weird science fantasy Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Having the word/phrase definitions at the start of each chapter wasn’t planned as such – it just seemed fun at the start, and I’m now kinda stuck with it, at least until the Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. A Day Of Faces grew out of a simple, daft “what if?” concept: what would happen if everybody born on the same day looked the same? It’s since become something a bit more Read more…
These things take a while. According to my revision log, I started writing Millennium Surfing in January 2013. That is months and months earlier than I remembered. The first draft was completed in July 2014, making it an absurdly long gestation period for a short story – albeit quite a long one. Read more…