Welcome to the site. I'm a scribbler of horror and other dark fictions, and my novels and stories have been published in the UK and the US for the last fifteen years. I currently live in India, having been in Scotland for over a decade. For most of that time I've been writing one thing or another. Hopefully some of it has entertained you, or soon will. Let me know.
"In a genre where some of the most respected voices can't seem to get past vampires and serial killers, Wright doles out startlingly original ideas like he's throwing stones. More importantly, he's knocking us upside the head with them and making us think in a very enjoyable way." - Louis Maistros, Chiaroscuro
Yes, I finished NaNoWriMo successfully. A certificate thingy will be displayed as soon as I upload it to the server this evening. I’m not whooping and cartwheeling quite yet though, because although I’ve cracked the 50,000 word mark for November, there is probably at least 30,000 words still to go before the book is complete. Give it a couple of weeks or so, I think.
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Well done on the 50K – I did Nano too, so I know it’s not easy!
Some corkers in that list, I remember the year well.
December 3rd, 2006 at 6:32 am
Thanks Julia – still surging onwards with it, but happy to have reached that magical 50!
December 3rd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Meatloaf? Whoa. I didn’t even know he was still around in the 90s! (hah!) And I didn’t know most of those songs, either. In fact, I knew about five of them (strangely, ones you did NOT know). I lived in Germany in the early 90s and their hits were, of course, different from OUR hits. I actually LIKED their “pop” music over there. It was edgier, and simply “cooler” because it was German/French/whatever. LOL.
CONGRATS on the 50K!!!!! I am so proud of you!!! I know it won’t take you much time at all to get the other 30K taken care of. I’ve got a bottle of bubbily chillin’ in the fridge for ya.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Germany thinks it’s cool? When the music of David Hasselhof was a national phenomenon, back in the day? They kept his career alive, damn it, when the only humane thing to do was cut it dead…
And thank you. I look forward to cyber-sipping with you.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Oh, you! While the older Germans did indeed enjoy Hasselhoff (WTH?), the younger Germans definitely had some great edgier stuff. Or, they would listen to a lot of English-lyric music, but they had totally different “hits” and “popular groups” than we did. It really was funny to see some groups totally HUGE in Germany and nobody back home had ever heard of them.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Funnily enough, I remember more of the top 75 tunes from the year I was born than when I turned 18! I’m sure there’s probably a deep psychological meaning behind that. Or maybe I just realise that they haven’t produced decent music for the last thirty years…