Category Archives: Literature
Playing With Form
A few days ago, I started Kraken by China Mieville, and I was a little startled by the writing style, at first. It seemed so heavily at odds with everything he’d written before, even Un Lun Dun, his sort-of children’s … Continue reading
Succinct Fiction
For me, University killed the novel. A love of literature got me doing a literature degree, and a literature degree did its best to kill my love of literature. For the most part, it succeeded, with a combination of deathly … Continue reading
An Imploration
So there are a few deadlines slowly creeping up on me, the usual end of term stuff that happens at University. Except, of course, the fact that I’m doing some really rather interesting modules this year, including on Creative Writing … Continue reading
The Sunday Story
Here we are again, after a week of negligable posting I feel kind of bad. Truth is, I’ve had Fallout 3, Far Cry 2 and the Left 4 Dead demo to keep my occupied. That should have kept my occupied, … Continue reading
The Wednesday Exercise
I didn’t actually write anything in my Wednesday seminar this week, hence the fact that this is going out on a Friday, not a Wednesday. So instead I’m going to tantalise you with something I wrote a good 4(?) years … Continue reading
The Poisoned Sponge 