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Branching Out and Looking In
Comments came back on the Place module on Monday night. The submitted story was The Light at the Crossroads. The few criticisms of the piece were that it has a slightly disappointing denoument, "not quite making sense in relation to young man." The second marker suggested I should try to get this published in an American fantasy magazine. The mark ( Read more... ) -
The Riddle Game
This is a heavily revised version of Gamekeeper, one of the first stories on this LJ. 1,100 words or so.
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Cary Imagines the Garden
This is a piece written for our Place class in which we were asked to examine the body as a place.
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Singing for Peace
In the Voice class, which I'm auditing, we were meant to write something inspired by some song lyrics. A lot of the lyrics came out of the late 60s-early 70s folk revival, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, you know the drill. I have a lot of love for stuff like this, but I also think most of the 70s singer-songwriters were more about being confessional and ( Read more... ) -
253
For our Character tutorial pieces last term, we were asked to write something in the vein of 253, an interactive hypertext novel. I was completely taken in by the story itself and very much enjoyed reading it. We were meant to write something around a tube strike that had taken place very recently in London.
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Nothing for a long time
Sorry about that. The second year of the MA seems to be much more intense than the first. This may be because we have an assignment to write a 60-90,000 word novel by the end of January, or this may be because the work itself is just geared up a little bit. I am auditing the first year classes with an eye to teaching my way through the PhD, and my ( Read more... ) -
On short fiction
I've never considered myself much of a short fiction writer. But I'm beginning to consider the possibilities. Many of the things I've written for the MA could end up as passable short stories, and a couple may actually already be there ( Read more... ) -
Neverland, Wonderland, Whateverland
I love immersion fantasies. I love stories where ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary situations. It might have started with Narnia for me, but I doubt it: while I loved those books, they seemed out of date even when I read them in the 1970s. For me, it was Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Joan Aiken, writers who took seemingly ordinary ( Read more... )