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The Woodsman: Update 6 2008-03-19 02:15:14 Quick update. There’ll be more later today of more general interest.
I just finished the rewrite on Chapter five and am a little over a third of the way through now, just reaching the areas of the story where genuine, full on heavy lifting is required. It gets a little bit tricky from here on in.
So [...] Read more:Update
Upon the mantle 2008-03-18 02:52:05 Today’s post was meant to be a review of Spin but I’ve got myself in a muddle schedule wise and so am rushing to a supplier event in London.
In the meantime here is a short drabble for your entertainment. And so I actually can say I wrote something today.
Upon the mantle
By Neil Beynon
There is a [...]
Review: Jumper 2008-03-17 08:06:37 I went to the cinema on the weekend for the first time in what felt like an age. I was vaguely disappointed that there wasn’t a more interesting selection of flicks on offer but saw that Jumper was on. Pushing my reservations about Hayden Christensen to one side I went in.
Jumper follows David Rice from [...]
Review: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson 2008-03-21 04:50:29 Spin was the second of the e-books released for free to Tor’s mailing list and I started reading it pretty much by accident having been caught short without a book on my commute home.
Spin begins from a very simple - almost silly - premise. What would happen if the earth were surrounded by a physical [...] Read more:Robert
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Whoops 2008-03-20 01:43:16 Just a quick one. Time has gotten a little away from me in the last forty-eight hours. It happens.
The heavy hinting over Tuesday’s activities was because one of my suppliers took me out to dinner at The Ivy. This will mean little to people outside of the UK but it’s one of the most exclusive [...]
Eastercon: Mid Point 2008-03-23 02:06:01 Well, I’m about half way through my first con and I’ve realised there’s just not the scope for live blogging although twitter is worryingly addictive, as keeping an eye on the sidebar will reveal.
Friday was pretty laid back. The panels were good but I only really got a lot out of one of the three [...]
Friday Flash Fiction: Crushed 2008-03-21 12:42:44 Due to a very manic week I don’t have a proper entry - although this may change during the workshop tomorrow - and so I’m posting a little bit of back story to The Woodsman that has most likely been dropped for pace reasons. Hopefully it’s enjoyable.
If you missed out on my random drabble from [...] Read more:Flash
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Punctured 2008-03-24 19:05:36 Tonight’s post was to be a round up of Eastercon.
Of how I got to see fantastic Guest of honour spots from Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Charles Stross. I’d planned to say some stuff about how big the con was, how interesting many of the panels were including some great stuff from Cory Doctorow, Patrick [...]
Eastercon Photos 2008-03-27 18:21:50 One of the people in this picture is excited and the other has just seen the size of the queue. You work out which:
The Friday Flash Fictioneers of the Apocalypse:
Left to right: Gareth D Jones, Martin McGrath, Paul Graham Raven, Me, Gareth L Powell, Justin Pickard and Shaun C Green
[...]
Eastercon: China, Neil and Charlie oh my… 2008-03-27 17:54:42 So over at Nostalgia for the Future, Justin has an excellent write up of Eastercon and nicely distills China
’s keynote. China was a bit of a revelation. A fascinatingly literate and erudite speaker; I spent a lot of the weekend coming out of his panels with a list of words that I hadn’t known existed.
But [...] Read more:Charlie
What Neil Did Next… 2008-03-26 17:05:41 Now for the infamous leg story.
When last seen our fearless feckless hero was exiting Eastercon after an exciting weekend of beer, literature, more beer, geeks and a healthy dose of book buying.
Putting aside a very nearly lifelong fear of rats, he had foolishly agreed to having his better half, G, look after her friend’s pet [...]
Buggeration 2008-03-30 02:27:37 Apparently today is the 30th March. Constant readers will know this was meant to be my self-imposed deadline for finishing The Woodsman.
I haven’t hit it, have no chance of hitting it given I’ve only got as far as the end of chapter six, but it’s not all a lost cause. Having the deadline in mind [...]
Just a moment… 2008-03-29 15:13:38 My blogroll seems to have gone awol…
Bear with me while I find out where the pesky critter’s gone.
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OK. Fixed now. I really do need to pay more attention. Apologies to anyone who wasn’t feeling the linky love.
I’m going to hang my head in shame.
Friday Flash Fiction: Burned 2008-03-28 06:00:16 If you missed last week’s flash, it can be found here.This week’s piece was written at Eastercon for the FridayFlashFiction
workshop we ran to launch Illuminations. Not one to ask others to do what we would not, each of us wrote a story whilst the attendees crafted their own compositions.
As ever I’m not [...]
A quick update and then bed 2008-03-31 16:33:14 I’ve not really done much save work (rather harder than I wanted to at the moment) and work on The Woodsman.
The latter has been fun as it’s going rather better than has done in a while, I’d pretty much ground to a halt around hitting the point where the second draft encounters the first of [...]
The Mine: In Jupiter 20 2008-04-05 10:51:25 Jupiter’s site reports that Issue 20 is now shipping.
And I’m pleased as punch to confirm that this quarter’s issue includes my short story The Mine. This story was written in the summer of 2007 as an attempt to write more straight SF as at the time I was mostly writing dark fantasy and I wanted [...] Read more:Jupiter
Review: Unlundun By China Miéville 2008-04-05 08:23:57 I’m generally speaking not a big fan of writers utilising successful, well-established, ideas and conceits as their central Big Idea for novels. On the face of it, that’s what Unlundun is: China
’s version of Neverwhere. Albeit aimed at a younger audience.
And a cursory flick through the book reveals a somewhat unsurprising thank you/acknowledgement of Neil’s [...]
Friday Flash Fiction: Faraway 2008-04-04 10:46:32 Feedback as ever appreciated. Here goes:
Faraway
By Neil Beynon
The tree still stands. That’s something. That’s what she tries to tell herself as a cold breeze sends her hands to her elbows in search of warmth. Her bag lies discarded by her side, a faded red cross hanging on by one corner’s stitching, an airplane tag kept [...] Read more:Friday
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links for 2008-04-08 2008-04-08 06:37:08 10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die - GigaOM
We’re all doomed…
(tags: internet comment)
Web publishers are in bullish mood - but for how long? | Media | The Guardian
Online publishers eying the future with cautious optimism. Very much the topic of the moment that has me and my bank manager looking nervous…
(tags: internet [...] Read more:links
Notes to self… 2008-04-07 07:14:11 Ramblings from my trip to Wales Read more:Notes
links for 2008-04-07 2008-04-07 06:34:12 MALLORY by Leonard Richardson | Fiction | Futurismic
New story from the guys at Futurismic, this month it’s Leonard Richarson in the hotseat
(tags: mallory futurismic newstory fiction writing sciencefiction)
Whatever » Reader Request Week 2008 #10: Meeting Authors (and Me)
Sage advice from the Scalzi on how to handle meeting writers
(tags: fandom advice commonsense johnscalzi)
Salman Rushdie talks to [...] Read more:links
Short update… 2008-04-09 07:20:03 Blathering on about what I've been up to recently Read more:Short
links for 2008-04-09 2008-04-09 06:36:43 Your Preferred Mode of Transportation : Joe Hill Fiction
Joe Hill asks the big question: Jet pack, underwater car or triceratops? You decide.
(tags: random humor humour comedy)
HP unveils aluminium-clad Eee rival - ZDNet.co.uk
HP fires a shot across Asus’s bow. I’m not convinced - the EEE is pretty good: especially if you pimp the OS.
(tags: gadgets subnotebooks [...] Read more:links
Friday Flash Fiction: Pixies 2008-04-11 06:45:01 Ok. I went slightly over. As ever please feel free to comment. Here goes:
Pixies
By Neil Beynon
The thing looks at her looking at it. Its skin is the colour of Jane’s father’s battered and faded leather jacket, as wrinkled and crumpled as one of his shirts. Its heavy lids blink over wet black, jet black, [...] Read more:Friday
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links for 2008-04-11 2008-04-11 06:37:17 Eyeing robots whose brains would work just like ours
Virtual brains anyone?…I wish my real one would work.
(tags: science software computing invention research) Read more:links
Murky Monday 2008-04-14 07:44:56 Neil blathers on about his weekend and Monday
. Also a mention of Illuminations: on sale now at WHSmith, Foyles and Blackwells
Rejection 2008-04-17 08:30:05 Neil gets on his soap box about rejection and how writers should handle it.
Friday Flash Fiction: Territory 2008-04-18 02:45:00 As long as I've been doing the FridayFlash
G has been asking me to write a specific type of story. On weeks where I find myself clawing for ideas the answer from her is often: do that one I want you to do...or words to that effect. And so finally I have.
This week's story was written for G - belatedly - for the occasion of her birthday.
Feel free to provide feedback in the comments.
Territory
By Neil Beynon Read more:Fiction
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