All Things To All People
The best way to make money as a writer is to publish a book of writing advice. There are hundreds of these books, promising all kinds of things. They range from soft, gentle promises to unlock your creative soul to foul-mouthed tough…
Originally published on substack 16 jun 2023 Recently I came to the rather trite realisation that writing a novel is hard. Even more recently, the realisation that editing one is also hard. I am about a third of the way into edits…
In my earlier years, on tumblr, I posted and reblogged a lot of stupid stuff. I no longer remember all of it but I’m pretty sure I at some point said or implied that certain types of fiction could do harm. I…
(First published on Substack on 15 may 2023) I am semi-jokingly known as the ‘cannibalism guy’ among my friends. I know a worrying amount about cannibalism, fictional and real, and have a published short story about eroticised ritual cannibalism (For This Divinity,…
(Originally published on my substack 12 may 2023) All writers have things they are better at and things they are worse at. My own skills lie in describing really awful things and, I’m told, in dialogue. I am not good at titling…