Doug Strider's Blog, page 3
January 31, 2013
Danger Approaching
I have finally reached a point where I can get the first part of Space Danger! released into the world and I’m quite happy about that!
I certainly hope that your wonderful eyes will fall upon it and that they, and the rest of you, will enjoy it thoroughly.
To celebrate the imminent, weekenderly, arrival of the good ship HMSS Monstro and crew, I’ve updated the Smashwords account with a copy of First Sweep, a mini prequel short story type affair. Although I’m afraid that it will cost you nothing...
January 7, 2013
Halfway to the Stars
I think it was around April last year that I started bothering paper with pen scribbles again, fuelled by inspiration from the resident prolific writer of the household. I had a good stab at writing some donkeys years ago and remember really enjoying it but then life and whatnot managed to shove this side of me into a cupboard and then piled on loads of old rubbish.
The little writerly voice inside me was still whispering ideas now and then though and I would channel some of those nuggets into...
October 13, 2012
Sat Here Day
It’s Saturday morning, one of my favourite mornings. Sunday is my next favourite but usually accompanied by a mild hangover or two. The other writer in the house is still asleep so please keep the volume down, thank you. Which means now is the quiet time where I can sip my coffee and reflect upon the week I’ve survived and then plan to negotiate whatever the week ahead may bring.
I always forget to do that.
I should use my time wisely by reading or editing or even writing but…
I always forget to...
September 6, 2012
First Draft Progress – Part 1
Good day to you!
Quick update.
I’ve finished the first draft of Part 1 of Space Danger! Hooray!
It took many days and many beers as I used my local pub The Tiger to write it in. A few hundred words at a time whenever I could. Took bloody ages! But now the slow process has finally succeeded and I am a solid quarter through the whole four part pulp space epic type thing.
Work has started on Part 2 already but Part 1 is going to go and sit in a dark place for a while before I smack it about with the...
July 5, 2012
Space Danger! First Sweep
Hello, you lot!
Please do have a look at this short story if you would like.
It’s set before the events of the Space Danger! novella series I’m slowly and steadily working on and is probably going to change your lives. For the better possibly. For worse, well, maybe? Only you can tell me that.
Either way, here it is and I hope your eyes let the words through into your brains and that your brains do all the work they have to do for you to enjoy… Space Danger! First Sweep.
Ta.
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June 7, 2012
Peril! In Space!
I am following with interest tales of woe and joy regarding self publishing. Particularly because I’m seriously contemplating going down that route to see what I can see, do what I can do and drink what beer I can drink during the process.
There was an instinctive feeling from me that self publishing ain’t all that. That there’s a whole minefield of self-pubbed hacks that are in dire need of a reality check (but microsoft don’t include that in Word yet).
But then there are glorious tales of tho...
May 25, 2012
The Daily 300
I have been pondering somewhat over the possibility of this. Would there be interest in getting people together who would want to do this?
What I mean is: Could aspiring writers actually find a way to write a book even though there is actually no time in their lives to actually do it?
I was inspired to think these thinks after reading a Neil Gaiman article regarding Stephen King, which you can find here:Link
In it he says:
“I think the most important thing I learned from Stephen King I learned as...
May 2, 2012
Protagonist, are you there?
No sign of him yet. Where the devil is he?
Dear Writers,
If you haven’t included your protagonist from the start of a story, at what point did you feel you needed to get them in there before it was too late?
Many thanks and kind regards
Douglas Strider Esq.
Aside from that, is it still raining out there? I would check but the curtains look like they’re hiding goblins so I’d better not go poking around trying to view the outside world.
