Sunday 29 March 2009

STOP PRESS!

I wasn't going to blog tonight because I'm still full of dinner and sleepy*, but news has happened while I was out stuffing my face. My first story has appeared online at Pantechnicon :D I submitted it some time ago, and it's taken them a while to get it all together for various reasons, but it's now up and readable!

This is the first bit of writing I've ever sent off to someone I didn't know, and I'm quite excited. Someone who wouldn't care about hurting my feelings read it and liked it!

Now it's your turn! I'd really really love it if you went here: http://www.pantechnicon.net/ and clicked on Latest Additions, and then had a quick looky at my story, London Stone. It's very short and relatively painless and I'd love to know what you think.


*my blog about the fabulous range of new haircuts on display in Primeval will have to wait.

10 comments:

  1. Congrats on the publish!! Just read the story. It's very good and I enjoyed reading it. I am looking forward to reading more of your stuff.

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  2. Exceptional. I was hook-line-sinker drawn in and moved by that story.

    You, Miss Williams, have quite the talent. (I can even overlook the lack of Gummi Bear action. This time ;) )

    Get some more stories up. Cracking.

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  3. Thank you both for saying such lovely things, it means a lot. :)

    (Marwood, I promise lots of Gummi Bear action in the future, possibly with some Wuzzles thrown in)

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  4. Your story was really good. I was surprised at the end. I love stories that don’t reveal themselves until the very end.

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  5. Nice. Well-dawn central character, with a unique, coherent voice, appropriate-but-suitably-restrained use of dialect, excellent plot hook, classic structure and a twist at the end that wasn't (as is so often the case) bludgeoned into the reader's consciousness to show how clever the author is. I really, really like this - so much so that I'm going to link to it from my own blog.

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  6. I can confirm that yunshui did exactly that. I loved the final twist. Subtle enough to reward paying attention, but with enough significance to give you chills. A lot of times with horror short stories, the authors make a fatal mistake by giving the game away and stripping the narrative of its tension, as John Connolly did time after time in Nocturnes. I much prefer the way you left the terror unnamed, unspoken, and without description. Excellent.

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  7. Oh blimey, more comments that I missed! Thank you so much for the lovely words, it really means a lot.

    yunshui- cheers for linking it from your blog, that is really very kind of you. :)

    FrodoSaves- Funny you should mention John Connolly, as I'm a bit of a fan of his, although I've not read Nocturnes for a good few years. As for London Stone, I decided I'd have to be quite sutble given the subject matter- it would have been so easy to say "Dun dun DUN, guess who it was?!" but not nearly as satisfying as a sprinkling of hints. Thank you so much for taking the time to read it and give me (such lovely) feed back.

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  8. Great short story - dark, smartly written. It's very, very polished and reads brilliantly.

    Looking forward to Bad Apple Bone!

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  9. Thanks mate! :D Bad Apple Bone is gonna need a serious beating with the editing stick before it sees the light of day...

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  10. Don't worry. Rule 1 of writing - vomit it out, fix it later!

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