The bulk of my writing is done at night. There's a calmness to having dark blanket the world; no one needs me for anything, work is most definitely over, I can exist, just exist, in peace. It doesn't last long, the peace, because my brain starts asking questions, questions like: why aren't my fingers typing, or why am I wasting perfectly good writing time? It always wins in the end -- no rest for the wicked, as they say. But with my digits in motion and half an idea in mind, what do I drown the uneasy silence out with? Music, of course.
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Elke Wolf: The Horror
Oh, Elke. Were you tangible, were you as real as the reader, as real as me who wrote you, I wonder what you’d say having read your unwarranted biography? Would you be satisfied with its ending? Would you keep going knowing what you must go through, what you must endure to reach the end? If our own life stories were available in local libraries to be read at our leisure, would we? Is life kept interesting by not knowing what comes next?
Last Man Standing
A contender I had written for another short story competition. It takes place in the immediate aftermath of a large 15th century battle -- two enemies remain in the wake of 20,000 fallen soldiers; Ruelle De Saincourt and Vernon Valcante.
Wisdom on the wind
A while back, RTE (Ireland's equivalent to the BBC) were holding a short story competition. Being the intrepid author that I am, I came up with a cracking little story and sent it in with the highest of hopes. This would eventually become a harsh, but necessary lesson.
What’s Next?
It's hard to stop once you get going -- a fear in me that, if I do, I'll lose whatever momentum I was riding on. Glimpse'll be a year old in March and, in that mercurial year, I sent it to every publisher I could with little luck. Sure, I had offers from vanity presses, … Continue reading What’s Next?
Who the hell is AJ Carney?
Good question. That's me underneath the helmet, obviously. The modesty in my heart would say that I am no one; just a dude, a guy, a badly written NPC to be ignored in a medium-budget, mid-2010's RPG. Putting modesty aside, I've written four books, self-published three, left two aside for now and I'm only proud … Continue reading Who the hell is AJ Carney?
