On 7th April last week, I finished draft 2 of Hero. It was a quiet thing. I'd given myself a vague June deadline, but after realising I could comfortably up the daily word goal from 600 to 1000 words, things sped up considerably and suddenly it was done. I had the typical "post-draft blues" for... Continue Reading →
It's been a little while since I updated the blog so I thought I'd post a general update. Since my last post, COVID happened, I changed jobs, got glasses and dyed part of my hair green. I've also been dabbling in learning some new skills: I can draw a little, twirl a (plastic) sword, and... Continue Reading →
Image by Artie_Navarre I've been working on a novel for a few years now. Not the YA Pyromancer one that my Rewriter's Block posts followed (that one's gonna be on the backburner for a while). This one's a trope-bending comic fantasy and even after three years of work I'm still utterly in love with it... Continue Reading →
(Lightning? Because it's flash fiction, geddit?) I've been in a bit of a writing rut lately, so to get more ideas going I committed to posting a flash fiction every day for thirty days. Here is what I came up with... 1 The virus wiped out all high-functioning robots and supercomputers. 'Now we are free... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year again! I'll be posting a prompt a day up until 24th December. See if any of these inspire a prose piece, a poem, a blog post, a drawing...? I'll be doing these too and will post some of my work up on Twitter (@GraceHaddon). Merry writing! The protagonist of the... Continue Reading →
So things are going a little better. I’ve been keeping a log of whenever I do research or writing, initially to help with my dissertation essay when I need to write it. But it’s also surprisingly motivational – I want to write something in it every day. When this thing’s finished I might post it... Continue Reading →
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