Firing up the old mastodon account again, just in case...
(for politics and engineering see @scavengerethic on twitter)
http://spiderted.eu/authors/petealexharris.html
Pete Alex Harris
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Writer of Horror, Fantasy and SF.
(for politics and engineering see @scavengerethic on twitter)
http://spiderted.eu/authors/petealexharris.html
(for politics and engineering see @scavengerethic on twitter)
http://spiderted.eu/authors/petealexharris.html
Looking forward to Dublin Ghost Story Festival in June, which is the next writing event I'm likely to be at, and also a nice city break.
https://write.as/pete-alex-harris/the-silk-mind-what-the-fuck-was-i-thinking
(on write.as, which is quite pleasant to use)
Got myself a 6-week non-writing project queued up because I'm about to get a novel critted and will maybe need to step back from it and possibly cry or sulk for about that long before going back to fix it.
And without some kind of project to distract me, I am not a completely well-balanced person.
Got myself a little luxury: The Art of Game Design (book of lenses)
I might restart my series of blog posts about parallels between writing and games.
Or I might install Unity 5.0 and fall down a rabbit hole and do no writing for a year.
We'll see.
Was going to do a thing that involved graphing various stats on my stories, and realised I don't have words counts for most of them.
Number of POV is generally going to be "too many" I know that much.
Some news on
https://write.as/pete-alex-harris/
about the Shadows at the Door anthology's new bargain price.
https://write.as/pete-alex-harris/
about the Shadows at the Door anthology's new bargain price.
The main character is not the guide. The narrator is not the guide. The writer is the guide.
It's OK for the MC or narrator to be an ignorant jerk, if the writer is nudging you and saying, "I know right?" It's not OK for the writer to NOT NOTICE or nod along with the jerkery.
You can't try to never offend, but you can try not to be boring and ignorant. Nobody wants to hire a guide who repeats threadbare cliches about things they don't understand instead of showing you cool stuff.
OK I have thoughts. They are *kind of* political but also about writing, so fair game.
It's around the idea of avoiding cultural appropriation and racist tropes. I've seen resistance to the idea that you can't just write whatever you want. And you can, but…
How to put this? Imagine you are going on a trip to a new and interesting place, and you've paid a guide to take you there. That place is a book, and the writer is the guide.
I kind of wish these columns would widen to fill up the window width. About 2/5 of my window is wasted.
I can temporarily fix it by right-click -> inspect and change the .drawer to width: 30%, but if I want that to stay I'll have to leave the tab open :(