August is a weird time of year. Summer is on the way out, but it's not yet time for Halloween, Bonfire Night or the anticipation of Christmas (I'm already seeing tinsel in the shops!). It's also been a weird time for my writing. On 13th July, I finished the readthrough of Hero draft 2! It... Continue Reading →
June has been an interesting month. I put down a project that was 30k words strong, but research has begun on what will hopefully be my second novel (and heck is there a lot of research). Work continues on the Hero readthrough. None of this feels like "proper work", and the whole time I'm getting... Continue Reading →
The air tastes of metal, burnt plastic and standard-issue lemon floor polish. Caretaker 345/12 subsection 3 races down Section 301 of Paradise Towers, his steps echoing off the concrete walls. He’s sweating under his heavy uniform, and his arm aches from holding his too-big cap against his head. Caretakers can walk miles in a single... Continue Reading →
May has been a month of many projects. After I finished Hero draft 2, it sat in a drawer for two weeks (well, it sat in a folder on my laptop). During that time, I focused entirely on Green and had quite a few 1000+ word writing days. Act 1 is done for now, though... Continue Reading →
On 7th April last week, I finished draft 2 of Hero. It was a quiet thing. I'd given myself a vague June deadline, but after realising I could comfortably up the daily word goal from 600 to 1000 words, things sped up considerably and suddenly it was done. I had the typical "post-draft blues" for... Continue Reading →
It's been a little while since I updated the blog so I thought I'd post a general update. Since my last post, COVID happened, I changed jobs, got glasses and dyed part of my hair green. I've also been dabbling in learning some new skills: I can draw a little, twirl a (plastic) sword, and... Continue Reading →
I've been working on a novel for a few years now. Not the YA Pyromancer one that my Rewriter's Block posts followed (that one's gonna be on the backburner for a while). This one's a trope-bending comic fantasy and even after three years of work I'm still utterly in love with it and I know... Continue Reading →
(Lightning? Because it's flash fiction, geddit?) I've been in a bit of a writing rut lately, so to get more ideas going I committed to posting a flash fiction every day for thirty days. Here is what I came up with... 1 The virus wiped out all high-functioning robots and supercomputers. 'Now we are free... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year again! I'll be posting a prompt a day up until 24th December. See if any of these inspire a prose piece, a poem, a blog post, a drawing...? I'll be doing these too and will post some of my work up on Twitter (@GraceHaddon). Merry writing! The protagonist of the... Continue Reading →
Written for the Creative Writing Ink Prompt for January 18th, which was to write a story inspired by this image. Photo belongs to Sydney Rae. Maria first saw the dead girl during double science on a Thursday afternoon. Mr. Whittaker paced between the battered desks, handing out worksheets. Maria squidged her hands between her... Continue Reading →
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