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Howdy all. Still at hughgrimwade.wordpress.com if you were interested in dropping in.
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mirror world
Just popping in to say a quick 'hello'. Hello ( Read more... ) -
so long (for an undetermined timeframe) and thanks for all the fish (in a manner of speaking)
This is a farewell, in a way. LiveJournal's recent DDOS problems have made me realise that I need to back up my writing more than I have been (in that I haven't been doing it at all). I'm keeping this account open, but much of my writing is now likely to appear at http://hughgrimwade. ( Read more... ) -
I go on a bit in this one.
I was about to talk for a bit tonight about world-building. But, the anecdotes that were going to drive a bit of that discussion were actually around incremental mythology and what inspired me as a kid, so that's what I'm going to turn this into ( Read more... ) -
Blacksad
If you like noir and aren't averse to some sequential art, I encourage you to check out BlacksadJohn Blacksad is a trenchcoat-wearing private detective. He drinks, likes a good-looking dame and knows how to throw a punch. He's also a panther, but that's not surprising; the hired goons he faces are weasels and snakes, his police contact a German ( Read more... ) -
kicking and screaming
I've brought the manuscript, heels dragging, up to over 28k words. Finally! Still a long way to go, of course, but I'm feeling like I'm gathering some momentum to get over that hump I've been stuck on for so long. The two chapters that I was so unhappy with aren't done yet, but I've redrafted both multiple times, approaching them from a number of ( Read more... ) -
Steampowered!
Sorry, no proper entry today. A slightly grim day at work has left me drained of inspiration. But, before I forget...
Steampunk can quite easily turn to pastiche - Goth, with a brown palette - but what if you just embraced the visual aesthetic, and then added crazy trapeze tricks? Then, you'd have this;
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