On Writing...

Hey there, thank you for popping in and having a look at this, I'll make this as short as possible... so it's Tuesday, time for me to talk a little about my writing.
My short story Grumpy Old Man is to be published in UKAuthors Anthology, due approx November. I haven’t heard back from the others, it has been a while now so I’m taking it that they don’t want to use what I subbed to them. I haven’t sent anything else out, yet. I keep meaning too, but I keep putting it off.

I’m still working on the usual pieces. Barry is once again at a stand still.

However, I’m plodding along, getting deeper into The Hell of War, here is a very brief outline, it's very basic at the minute:

Set in the First World War, Jimmy meets a man called Billy. They set off on a mini quest through the trenches, but Jimmy has no idea what it is. They befriend a group of frightened Germans hiding in an abandoned dugout who take them hostage. They ask them questions and torture them. One by one, the Germans are killed. Jimmy and Billy have no idea by whom, they break free. Many questions are raised. Then night settles in, an everlasting darkness. Inside that darkness something chases them, it’s after a certain object that Billy has, an object that Billy must get to his destination.

The first two parts can be read on my website here.

As usual, the shorts are still being edited over and over again. I have quite a few short stories written but no matter what I do to them, I’m never happy with them. Maybe it’s time to place them at the bottom of a drawer for a while.

I really need to finish all projects that I have started before getting into new ones… I’m saying that and I’m planning to start a new piece for a challenge! That’s so typical of me!

My biggest problem with my writing is my grammar. I’ve listed a few things to help with that in my forum here. If you have anymore hints and tips on grammar then please give me a shout. I am so blind when it comes to editing my own works... it’s very annoying!

I don’t want to ramble on too much. Some of my pieces can be viewed on my website, as well as my nasty attempts at poetry. I can’t write poetry to save my life. Right, that’s it this week.

Oh yes, nearly forgot. Here is a reader's comment about Still Life that was published in Scifantastic Magazine.

Feedback:

Just read Scifantastic from cover to cover.What a great choice of stories – my favourites were, I’M A COOK, COLD HANDS, WARM HEART, and STILL LIFE. Yes, okay, my stomach turned when on the menu was Fried Human Infant in I’m a cook, but I can forgive almost anything when a story is so well written. The same applied to Still Life. Made my skin crawl but couldn’t stop reading it. It fits in with the amateur sleuth in me/ the whole world it seems, and I was gruesomely interested in how the crime was committed, very CSI. The ending I liked.

If you ain't read it yet, go get yourself a copy now!