I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and hope you have a fantastic day!
I would also like to thank everybody for their support of my writing over the past year, I really appreciate your support!
Here’s our presents under the Christmas tree! 😉
As you may know today is National Poetry Day!
Not so long ago I did a blog event called ‘Poem Attempts’ I think it went reasonably well, I had no criticisms so my poems couldn’t have been too bad!
Relive my poems now in aid of Poetry Day! Click My Poem Attempts now! 🙂
You can take part in Poetry Day by visiting http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/ and joining in on the hashtags #thinkofapoem
Today I returned to University for my 3rd and final year of Creative Writing and English Language.
This year does look as if it is going to be a hectic one; with much hard work and writing to be done.
This means that I will not be able to write as much for my books. However this will not affect the release of Endurance: Apocalypse which is coming very soon!
For now, why not check out my releases Endurance and The Author!?
Endurance: Apocalypse is currently under the editing process. We will work to edit it as quick as we can to make it available for you out there who are waiting to read what will happen next after Endurance!Â
You may be aware that I am writing a new book as well as editing. My new book (which will be available as eBook only) is a supernatural horror novel. I am yet to confirm a name for it. I do have one but I am still undecided on that. I have a cover idea and I am well and truly into the thick of the story. So I am hoping to get this new book out there as soon as possible for you all to check out.Â
I have never written a book of the supernatural kind. I have decided to take a risk and add my own twist to it, so you can expect an original story with a different outlook and set of rules for my spiritual world Â
“I have been living a lie. My husband Jack and my two daughters Lucy and Charlie believe that I am dead.” –Â Character Sarah from the new eBook. Coming Soon!
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So I have once again had a go at Flash! Friday. This is what I came up with from the picture I was given. You can check that at the flash Friday website and have a go yourself!
WANDERER By T. J. Blake
Pushing my way through the crack in the window, I escape the direct burning rays of the sun, and the gawping beaks of soaring birds.
Clambering across the dust and dead flies on the ledge, I rest myself against the window frame.
I look into the building I’ve entered, and see humans. They all sit on separate chairs facing the front, looking down to their desks.
I shoot my web onto the ceiling and then lower myself down onto the floor. As I walk across the floor, dodging the bails of rolling dust, I climb up onto the chair to find another spider, like me.
That’s my piece for this weeks flash Friday…
I don’t know why I decided to write this, I hate spiders!!
I decided to take part in Flash! Friday Fiction for the first time yesterday!
What Flash Friday does, is weekly upload a photo for users to write a 150 word creative piece.
I thought it would be fun so I gave it a go. Admittedly, my piece may not be that great, but what can you do with 150 words which is a first draft and written in a small time scale? Not too much, but I gave it a go, some people had some great ideas and produced good writing.
Below is my piece on the Flash Friday Fiction blog…
THE PATH by T. J. Blake (151 words)
“Gravel crunches under my feet. The gentle breeze smothers my surroundings; making the leaves above me chafe, the barbed wire fence scrape against the wood, and press my orange robe against my body.
I amble whilst staring at the wicker huts and small mountains ahead of me. Birds glide above me in the dark grey overcast. Slithers of glowing light occasionally bursts through the clouds lighting the dim skies. A deep roar sounds in the distance and echoes towards me, chattering the specs of dusted gravel by my feet.
My eyes glance back to the path, lapse of concentration will kill me.
A man in a black robe stands not far from me, his head hidden in the darkness of his hood.
I slip my arm into my orange robe and feel the handle of my sword.
As I approach him, he opens his robe revealing the glint of his blade.”
Feel free to let me know what you think of my piece.
I will definitely have a go at Flash! Friday fiction again when I can and maybe you should too?
It is on a wordpress blog, just google flash Friday fiction.
I have officially started writing the next instalment of Endurance, ‘Endurance: Apocalypse’ (Endurance 2). For those of you who have read Endurance, it will be as gory, as action packed and I hope as unpredictable! I’m writing it when I can, hoping for it to be completed early(ish) 2014!
I also have a new mystery thriller book idea which I am developing at the moment. I could possibly begin writing it at the beginning of next year.
I do however have two other book ideas as well as the mystery thriller idea to pick from so we shall see what I decide to write. Who knows I may need to ask the opinion of you to help me decide.
So, very exciting prospects for the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014, with my next book ‘The Author’ coming out hopefully within the next few weeks and possibly ‘Endurance: Apocalypse’ out at the beginning of next year, and then more writing with my 3 other book ideas for the rest of 2014 and maybe 2015!
Yesterday I sat at home most of the day staring into the light. It blinded me, it began to seep into my brain overtaking my body, forcing me to do things that I didn’t want to do… Well actually I was just staring at the monitor writing The Author but which version of events do you prefer?
My point is here, I was writing most the day and I completed writing The Author! I have written it which was a great feeling, I did it much quicker than I thought I would. Writing around University and my part time job is pretty hard most of the time I had a choice of which of the three to sacrifice but I have finally done. I am now in the editing process and I can say that I aim for it to be completed in November!
Today is the day I had to return to University after a good few months of relaxing and writing my next novel The Author.
I will be doing Poetry and Prose with some dramatic writing for the stage and radio in my Creative Writing course, and Sociolinguistics in my English Language part of the course… So maybe I will stop writing novels and become a poet? I certainly do not plan to, my poetry is probably as appealing as watching paint dry and as creative and poetic as the language that people on the Jeremy Kyle show utter… but we’ll see.
I may even post some of my poetry on here, to see what you think.
Today I have been working on my next novel ‘The Author’ (COMING SOON!)
I have spent 7 hours on it today and I have only written 10 5×8 pages, (That is the size of an average novel) which isn’t really a lot but I am getting to the critical and difficult stage of the novel. It is spicing up and becoming very dark, gory and twisted now! Very exciting, can’t wait to finish it and get my second novel out there for hopefully all of you to enjoy 🙂
Just a reminder don’t forget about my debut novel Endurance which is available on Amazon for paperback and Kindle.
A note to reviewers, I am still looking for reviewers to read and review Endurance so if you are interested then please let me know. Thanks!
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