Posts by DanKG
An Ode to the Squirrel in the tree.
One of my grand plans has come apart at the seams. Who cares? Well, probably nobody but I’m going to tell you about it anyway. Very quickly. So as not to bore you, whoever you may be out there in cyber world. I took a photo of a squirrel. It was awesome. And poetic. I…
Read MoreI’m not leaving this spot until Michelangelo gets here.
Well. That wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Life just threw me a dung-encrusted curve ball. If I had gonads, I’d be that guy rolling round on the ground, screaming in unadulterated misery. What happened has got me all doubled over and I’m not sure I’ll ever be upright again. Methinks this kind of life-changer puts…
Read MoreCode: Kinda-Bluish. When your creativity ain’t so visual.
Ouch. My eyeballs hurt. And so does my brain. I think one or two of the synapses have extinguished themselves in protest at the amount of peering at computer screens I’ve done over the past few weeks while editing. Or, as I like to call it, trying-to-make-something-I-wrote-less-shit. But me and my first world problem will…
Read MoreMy Main Character’s Heart just pounded, thumped, raced, leaped and fluttered her to Death.
Words. Dang, there are a lot of them. Many, many, many. And therein lies my problem. I don’t know enough of them. Case in point, I’ve just repeated the same word to describe how many (bastard!) words there are to use.
Read MoreWarning – Editing is bad for Keyboard Circuitry
*Tap tap* This thing on?
Read MoreIt’s Kinda Been A Crazy Week…or Two.
Holy Sweet Jeebus, what the hell just happened over the past two weeks? Who was that masked man? The one who swooped in, picked up my quiet little writing life and slung it over his broad shoulders (but not too broad though, and they have that nice definition of muscle that catches all the droplets…
Read MoreHi Ho, Hi Ho. Off to Meet A Deadline we Go.
Big moment. The many words I’ve written on many pages are going off to be sent off and scrutinised, discarded, red-carded, rearranged and tut-tutted. Or as commonly known, edited. I am going full adult. Hiring professionals. Getting invoiced. Peeps, I’ve been given a DEADLINE. I’ve adulted myself right in the kahunas.
Read MoreThe Way you do the things you do – Igniting the Writing Brain.
So I have recovered from last weeks little red-cheeked dummy spit. I am once again the epitome of calm. A picture of serenity.
Read MoreThe Importance of training your Opinion-Oodle.
Opinions. There must be one hell of a sale on these little gems because every soggy blighter has one. There are those who like to wield their opinion like a rusty broadsword dipped in rabies-juice and rolled in rainbow sprinkles of bubonic plague. They jab their colourful little swords, digging in deep, laughing at their keyboards, enjoying being…
Read MoreLocation, Location. Rah, Rah, Rah. Writing inspiration bim, boom, bah!
Some places speak to you as a writer. They can say things like ‘Hello, I am your imagination’s nirvana and I will inspire you to heights of true writing mastery.’ Often it’s more like ‘Stop walking round and round this library cause it’s exam time and you have jack-shit chance of getting a better seat than…
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