porno base – 23 skiddoo

I began writing ‘dreich noir’ again. No great reason, just with the chaos ‘n’ carnage finally receding, I feel like I need a hobby. And what better activity could I find than writing bizarro porn? Having had a wee break from it, there have been a few changes in focus. I’m feeling pretty groovy about […]

the model – big black

Possibly, I’ve had one of those past-life experiences over the last day or two. Which is all very subjective – and those reading this who’ve never met me will no doubt be scratching your heads and wondering whether I’ve been subjected to a serious head injury, poison-berries, or both. Those of you who have had […]

change – marc bolan and t.rex

I got up at five and did a little more work on ‘the idiots’ graveyard’. My outline stands at approximately two hundred and fifty words. Just a list of incidents in roughly the order I want them in. My next job is fleshing each of these three, four word hints out to twenty-to-fifty words each […]

it’s a mystery – toyah

I began mind-mapping ‘The hassle-home’ in earnest last night. I’ve sussed out some images I want to use and a few issues I want to touch on, but there’s still something missing. And I’m fucked if I can put my finger on what it is. Sometimes, I can look at a plot and there’s an […]

novelty – joy division

I’ve just updated ‘Dreich noir’ and, it feels pretty damn odd, going at it for the first time in a month. I’ve been thinking for a while that I could introduce some new characters and I’ve started to do just that. I had a few e-mauls after his visit to Glasgow, suggesting directions the plot […]

kill! – alberto y los trios paranoias

Up at four and another nineteen hundred words of ‘dystopian’ before work. I had a feeling this wouldn’t be a ‘three thousand day’, after my taking a couple of days off to do Saturday’s gig and generally rnr-ing in Edinburgh. and by ‘rnr’, I mean ‘compering, performing and finishing off the cut-ins for the dvd’. […]

the bulls – marc almond

I’ve worked with adults with learning disabilities for around twenty years. I’m good at my job and, far more importantly, I enjoy it. People have asked if I’ve ever used something of a service user in anything I’ve written – and the answer’s, perhaps surprisingly, yes. A number of years ago, on the job, someone […]

afterglow – doctors of madness

Awakened at 04:00 by the alarm in my phone, playing ‘Afterglow’. Up on autopilot and wrapping myself around a meaningful cup of tea. Ten minutes later, I’m in the keyboard zone. Three days in and five thousand words down. If anything, the plot feels a wee bit jagged, but the characterisation – and the descriptive […]