Welcome To My Mind

Firstly, if you are reading this, You Rock!
(Now, with the flattering hook out of the way, time for the content. Keep Reading! Please.) o.O

Welcome, you have entered the depraved depths of my imagination, the metaphoric Iron Earth where I dwell. Inside this war torn, festering, wasteland exists a hope. A slither of fluorescent creativity that mutates itself into short stories, scripts, poems and a myriad of ideas yet to be channelled into legible prose.

As with many aspiring writer's, finding a voice can be a real bastard. To get noticed, you either have to shout louder than the competition, stand out in some fashion, get very lucky or shoot some of your competitors. I wouldn't advise the latter.

So, through divine inspiration (thank you, Ian), I have been motivated to create this blog to showcase my work. Over the next X weeks, months, years, I will be uploading short stories, poems, chapters from my novel and all sorts of extra awesomeness for your mental consumption. All feedback will be warmly accepted. No criticism will be rejected. And all love and attention will be desperately grabbed hold of, clung onto and physically abused.

As well as an update on life/writing in general, I will also be adding updates on my novel, Tales from Iron Earth. I will add a quote of the week plus other fun stuff for your enjoyment. Without further ado, thank you for bearing with me and I just know you'll love reading, Living on Iron Earth. Enjoy. ;)

Thank you for reading,
Alec:


Meat 'N' Potatoes 'N' Iron Filings:
Current Project Round-up:
-Tales from Iron Earth, status update:
I have begun work on the new final chapter. The Nurse, Sarah Quinn, is the working title and it is the story that will bring all the first three together leading to one cauterizing conclusion. I am writing it as a short story for my Final Year Project as part of my creative writing degree so development on this should be far more rapid than with previous instalments.

-The Bloody 13, status update:
I've been at a crossroads on my Bloody 13 script this week. I have two plot ideas, one of revenge and the other is a more standard crime plot line. There are pro's and con's to both of these, I will go into it in more detail next week but needless to say, it's a tough decision and one I must dwell on further before a can really begin writing.

Writing of the Week:
Raven's Room [Read]
This week I would like to share with you a short story that I wrote as part of the Short Story module of my degree. It is a horror, pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Tell-Tale Heart that contains my written voice and an unceasing description of the apparently mundane to highlight paranoia. True to Poe, I have created a tense atmosphere using gothic imagery and a controlled tempo that quickens until the dramatic conclusion. At least this is the desired effect. I would love to hear some feedback on this.

Quote of the Week:
"Fame is the thirst of youth." ~ Lord Byron


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