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Trentonomicon: These next two weeks

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Saturday, November 14, 2009. These next two weeks. Are nose to the grindstone sort of weeks. I'm close to finishing book two, which has been a perilous and fun endeavour, and I reckon isn't a bad book at all, and may even be a good book in which bad things happen. I spent the last two days in Sydney which was great fun. Firstly the launch of X6 of which Cat Sparks writes about here. I also went to Hachette's offices, home of Orbit Australia, and met the wonderful staff there, and had coffee with my publi...

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Trentonomicon: December 2009

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Friday, December 11, 2009. A Little on Process - Part Two. I write like people shoot films, quite often without any idea of what goes where, just trusting that it does. And sometimes it doesn’t, but usually I’m heading in one direction, even if the scenes don’t appear to at first. I’m at this last stage with Managing Death. Then, some time early next year, I’ll get my structural edits, and that will be the real test. Whether it makes sense to someone else, whether it works, whether the pacing i...Which s...

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Trentonomicon: May 2009

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Never Try and Move House on the Wettest day in Decades. Well, we were supposed to move house today, and tomorrow I was going to blog about the whole thing. The last few months have been rather dislocating to say the least. So, it's been head down, getting the work done that's needed to be done, and waiting, surrounded by a wall of boxes, until we moved out and into our new place. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Buy Our Shimmaron Books.

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Trentonomicon: August 2009

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Saturday, August 22, 2009. Structural Edits and a Week of Hard Work Ahead. This was a week of distractions, as I tried to get my head around my structural edits. It wasn't so much that I disagreed with them - in fact I think I'm very very much on the same page(s) (and pages) with my editors - but how to get started. I opted, as I often do, with the sidewise approach. A book of post it notes, a notepad, and lots of scrawling on the manuscript as well. Have just started watching the Wire. Links to this post.

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Trentonomicon: January 2010

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Saturday, January 30, 2010. I’m now onto the structural edit proper, but those new words have put what is to come into perspective. I’m confident it’s going to be a much better book by the time I’m done. Links to this post. I've a shiny new site here. Check it out. I'll be cross-posting for a while. But the new site will have more information about the forthcoming books and whatnot. Links to this post. Saturday, January 16, 2010. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). SF writer and Silent Motion...

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Trentonomicon: April 2009

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Saturday, April 25, 2009. Balloon Landings and Five Hundred Words. Today has already involved a nearby balloon landing - which actually looked like it was going to be in our backyard, and which freaked out the dogs mightily. A coffee - which even with the 15% surcharge seemed remarkably expensive - a perusal of the paper, and five hundred words of a scene that ends with a hand gripping my protagonist's shoulder*. . So fairly productive, so far. Links to this post. Labels: Death Most Demanding. Been quiet...

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Paul Johnson-Jovanovic: Dark Fiction Writer

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Paul Johnson-Jovanovic: Dark Fiction Writer. Wednesday, 2 November 2011. Thought I'd try my hand at blogging again. I shall try and post every month, if I get time. Oh well, here goes nothing . I recently had a story accepted by Dark Moon Digest for their Frightmare's Flash Fiction anthology. The winners of the competition are still to be announced, so I don't know whether I made the top 4 (a frickin' $100 first prize = fingers crossed! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful sites for writers.

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Trentonomicon: November 2009

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Saturday, November 14, 2009. These next two weeks. Are nose to the grindstone sort of weeks. I'm close to finishing book two, which has been a perilous and fun endeavour, and I reckon isn't a bad book at all, and may even be a good book in which bad things happen. I spent the last two days in Sydney which was great fun. Firstly the launch of X6 of which Cat Sparks writes about here. I also went to Hachette's offices, home of Orbit Australia, and met the wonderful staff there, and had coffee with my publi...

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Trentonomicon: June 2009

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Monday, June 29, 2009. Some things to get Excited About. There's a whole heap of stuff be excited about if you're a reader of a somewhat dark and fantastical bent. For one Jeff Vandermeer. Has podcast the first chapter of his new Ambergris novel Finch. You can click to it from his blog here. He's going to do the whole thing in November, but, for now, this will have to be enough. Can't wait to see the book in print. And then there's China Mieville's. And Grant's Encyclopedia of Fantasy and, as John Clute.