I have just completed a 13410 word draft of “Electricity”, a spicy, not-quite-horror, not-quite-fantasy love story (I’ll probably go with it being a magic-realism love story.), I absolutely loved creating these characters: Sam, Francesca, Annabelle and Creature. Aly
Author: Alyson Madden-Brooker
Novella drafted
Sorted! My latest short story has gone through several changes of title (it was ‘Cold Numbers’ but is currently ‘Eve of Tomorrow’) and grown to be the novella it was always meant to be. Draft completed at 27,715 words. It is the second story written for my collection “All One People.” and my first proper […]
February writing update
It’s been an on-off month writing-wise. I’ve mainly been concentrating on stories for my ‘One Beautiful People’ collection. One of these is Cold Numbers, a rare Sci-Fi offering originally conceived as a separate piece but that has refused to be tied down as a shortie. It is now novella length and still has a few […]
Authors, Mothers, characters, daughters and all their imaginary friends
Minds of their own To begin with, writing requires the ability to disassociate oneself from true reality and go with the version that is inside one’s own head. We often call this imagining of other worlds and non-existent people ‘fantasising’, but for writers, it is more than idle imagination. We have to craft at it. […]