Panikos

I nearly call him something unwise – one word, one syllable, rhymes with ‘runt’. But the adrenaline has stolen my breath, and I’m worried I might have pissed myself a ...

So. Here's your mysterious, flowery synopsis: Owen Marchfield remembers Dun. He remembers its rioting woods, its abandoned farms, its tunnelling wells. He remembers children vanishing in the night, re

ANOTHER deleted section of chapter 30 “You’re not going back there,” Daisy said, more aggressively than she intended. “I said I’d help get you out, and I bloody have. You ...

Deleted section of chapter 30 The next morning, when the owner put a plate of scrambled eggs in front of Daisy, she caught her on the arm before she went ...

Deleted version of chapter 29 They were talking about her. She reached over onto the side table and turned the radio up, holding it close to her ear until the ...

Deleted stuff from chapter 28, draft 2 A spray of birds moved overhead. Hildegarde squinted against the light to watch them – almost noon, the sun grasping towards its zenith ...

Chapter 30.2, chapter 31, chapter 32, and the complete epilogue. Total: 9199 words. She couldn’t tell if the smell of smoke was something of her mind’s conjuring – surely the ...

Daisy slouched in the chair, watching Paris write. He’d lost his best pen, apparently, and had replaced it with one that was clearly meant for human hands. It looked like ...

"Apathy is a sort of living oblivion" - Horace Greeley

I found a Mark Twain quote that applies well to this novel: "What, now, do we find the Primal Curse to have been? Plainly what it was in the beginning: ...

Another landmark reached - I passed 35k this week! I'm probably not far off halfway. There are some big reveals coming up that I'm super excited for!

Just going to keep the link to my wfp with all my planning notes because I'm tired of trawling back through my wall posts to find it Edit: this one's ...

^What Stella said. I'd love to enter but I'm from the UK, so I don't know if I can.

Two tips from my lecturers that I write by: You don't have to be a writer all the time. Sometimes a flat-footed sentence will get you exactly where you need ...

It's not hugely important, but for posterity I thought I'd chime in to mention that the story has now reached 14,411 words and that I have completed the end of ...