This is one major post (6,000 words) about every major thing (books, novellas, screenplays) I've written from the age of 11 to now. I'm posting it by year over a course of a few days.
Read the first post, 2001.
Read the second post, 2002-2003.
Read the first post, 2001.
Read the second post, 2002-2003.
2008: AGED 18/19
INHUMAN PERFECTION & DAMON : rewrites which failed. Surely some Where The Sun Never Dies was in there as well.
MY NAME IS CHRYSANTHEMUM: The first tentative drafts of MNIC were written sometime in the summer, I think. It’s a story set in 1970s New York about a man who accidentally cuts his finger off and develops somatoparaphrenia.
The story was later turned into a screenplay, which I have plans to turn back into a novel.
LAURA: It may have been 2008 or 2009 when I had the dream that would later become Laura. I wrote a few short story drafts before the official short story version of it, which I then turned into a novella in 2011.
2009: AGED 19/20
THE EDEN BIRD: Spring of 09 I started The Eden Bird, something properly literary, and set in our world (wow!) The Eden Bird is a 1920s story about late-twenties Linda Elliott and her love of the young (but not teenager!) Hiram Dorian, despite her obligation to marry the really rather normal (ie, boring) Richard Glass. It is lightly philosophical, and very salvageable.
I was in a local writer’s group, and their reaction to the pessimism of Dorian ruined the character and, in turn, my momentum for the book.
So, good writing advice: write with the door closed.
BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO UGLY PEOPLE: This is an actual book. Not like all of these, which do not exist in print form. BTHUP is a collection of vignettes, put together like a modern illuminated manuscript, and was started in 2009, though I had no intention of creating a collection. It was put together and published in 2010.
You can TOTALLY buy it if you want. It’s really lovely, and it’s the first book about a very unspecific version of Paulie, my alter ego.
SIMONE: A novella, set in the 1910s, about the first incarnation of Paulie, and his young wife, Simone. The ending is complete balls, and I’m still trying to figure that one out. It has potential.
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