Prompt: "…the blue was sapphire…"The man who was a dream stepped in from the cold, and his coat of colours flashed in the candle's dying light. Every panel and thread glittered and gleamed, and each one was a story, each told its own tale: the blue was a sapphire, the pink was a gown, the… Continue reading 100WC #168 – The Man Who Was A Dream
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Thoughts and opinions on writing and publishing by Simon John Cox.
100WC – On The Porch
Across the lawn from us the Radcliffes sat draped on their chairs and loungers, wilting like neglected flowers in the heat.Now and then I'd look up and catch Emily watching me, her white dress gleaming, her skin the colour of toffee, and sometimes I would wave to her. Sometimes, if her father wasn't looking, she… Continue reading 100WC – On The Porch
Out Of Context Wednesday: Idle What-Ifs
Every Wednesday I take a sentence or paragraph from something that I've written in the last week and post it entirely without context. This week: When they’d spoken about this kind of thing, playing idle what-ifs after hearing about the indiscretions of their more turbulent friends, she’d always said that if she loved someone she could… Continue reading Out Of Context Wednesday: Idle What-Ifs
How to write a great character name
Often what stays with me from a novel is less the plot and more the characters who move within it. I find that I remember who they are and how they act long after the major plot points have faded from my sieve-like memory, and that I think of them almost in the same way… Continue reading How to write a great character name
100WC #166 – Salvation
Prompt: "…checking in proved to be…"A dried-out hotel lobby. Wooden fan blades stirring burnt air, grey photographs from a lost and glorious past. Noises on the wind outside, distant alien sounds: a thump, a crackle of munitions. The world ending. A boy with bone-white eyes on a cracked plastic chair. Green shorts, white vest, skin… Continue reading 100WC #166 – Salvation
Out Of Context Wednesday: Elevator Women
I've decided on a whim that every Wednesday I will take a sentence or paragraph from something that I've written in the last week and post it entirely without context. This week:Women of all races smiled silently down at them from screens set into the white walls of the elevator, arranged artfully on loungers beside swimming… Continue reading Out Of Context Wednesday: Elevator Women
One of the things that I enjoy most about writing fiction is the opportunity that it provides, when doing research to add depth and colour to characters and places, to learn a little (or a lot) about a wide range of subjects that I otherwise wouldn't come across.The first section of my first novel, for… Continue reading
An alien cowboy did it THE END
Following on from my recent post about Confederation Reborn, I have written a piece for inclusion in the canon, and Bernard Schaffer is currently looking it over and suggesting edits.Long story short, it turns out I accidentally wrote a sci-fi Western. Hopefully I'll be able to bring you some more news about it in the… Continue reading An alien cowboy did it THE END
An alien did it THE END
I was approached recently by literary renegade and force of nature Bernard Schaffer to take part in a big and exciting science fiction project called Confederation Reborn that will involve a range of authors and should generate a network of tightly or loosely connected narratives.I don't want to say too much about it mainly because… Continue reading An alien did it THE END
Things that go blog in the night
As we're approaching Hallowe'en it seems like a good time to point you towards a free collection of thirteen free short horror stories by the Tunbridge Wells Writers that is available for free from Smashwords. It's called Fright Night, and it includes my short story Atoc (which is also available for free from this very… Continue reading Things that go blog in the night
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