Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here
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A Dream in my Pocket
Throw it on the track, you don't want it back. Image created by me using canva.com with pd and wiki commons elements.
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The Woman on the Other Side of the Screen
I wish I didn't have occasion to write this. It is a companion piece to "The Man on the Other End of the Phone" Image is a screenshot
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It Rains
Well it does rain, quite a lot. I did the image.
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Witch's Mist
Morning walk. Image author's own
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Bronte's Inferno XXIV (I Don't Dream of Dollars)
So, The Editor-At-Large reveals a little, if not much. I made the image at canva.com
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Posted on Sat, 27 May 2017
I tell you how much I like this? There is satire, menace, allegory, myth and fable, also some tight writing anyone would be proud to have written. It takes genuine talent to get all that stuff in a piece of writing without bashing people over the...
Read full commentPosted in Boatman's dream 22
Yes,
Posted on Tue, 09 May 2017
you could actually start from "The sun blazed". All the expository back story is a dense amount of telling about the characters. You could show a little all the way through.
"Most of the time he wore a light grey...
Read full commentPosted in Caiman's bazaar
For me...
Posted on Wed, 03 May 2017
and how I write (I know, we're all different) I'd keep banging these out and then edit when you've completed a narrative (arc or spiral, who cares?) This is all sufficiently intriguing for me to persevere. If Tim needs to go, get rid of him later...
Read full commentPosted in Boatman's dream 10
I do
Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016
agree with Jack that the ending seems a little rushed. I'm not sure I want to see (much) more backstory or a substantially longer piece, though. Have you thought about making the story arc more circular... start from just before where it...
Read full commentPosted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)
Splendid...
Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016
the welter of detail contrasts with the things you leave out. The combination of observation of the mundane and the barest of allusions to horrific deeds makes it all the more chilling. Fine stuff.
Read full commentPosted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)
A long time ago...
Posted on Mon, 28 Mar 2016
When I was first posting on ABCTales (I think) BJD was around too. I know he was when I was an editor. He must have gone away for a while. Any comments, though very insightful and worth following, were sometimes really, well, not fluffy. I know...
Read full commentPosted in COSMIC ARBORETUM
Hmm...
Posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2016
Almost everything you do has me thinking of gothic cathedrals and mediaeval buildings. Perhaps it's the ring o' roses I hear. Nice nod to the grumpy Librarian, too.
Yep, the no-win situation of low-self esteem. "I can't be any good because...
Read full commentPosted in Hereditary fears
Like...
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2016
All the best science fiction, this is our own present and reality viewed in a fun-house mirror. I'm going to read part two now. This is a great beginning. The voice is believable and distinctive. As it's 1st person POV you can get away with a...
Read full commentPosted in The Net Caster (Part One)
Not a word misplaced, not a
Posted on Tue, 14 May 2013
Not a word misplaced, not a superfluous line.
Marvellous.
regards
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in The sadness of tulips
There's
Posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2016
nothing wrong with a long sentence, provided it's completely clear and you don't lose the reader on the way. Dickens was pretty good at sentences which sometimes seemed like Latin periods, but he was a dab hand with a semi and full colon. Unlike...
Read full commentPosted in the hungry earth (2 of 2)
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