a small thought on writing big
posted on 26 Jan 2012 at 5:12 am
“Don’t write the words. Write the book.”
(To paraphrase the ever-wise Fred Clark quoting Angela Lansbury.)
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Home Bio Blog Titles Books Fantasy Books of the Cataclysm: The Devoured Earth Books of the Change: The Sky Warden & the Sun Books of the Cataclysm: The Blood Debt Books of the Cataclysm: The Hanging Mountains Books of the Cataclysm: The Crooked Letter Books of the Change: The Storm Weaver & the Sand Books of the Change: The Stone Mage & the Sea
Kids Broken Land: The Changeling Escape From Thorngate Hall Fixers: Castle of the Zombies Fixers: Planet of the Cyborgs Have Sword, Will Travel Let Sleeping Dragons Lie Spirit Animals: Blood Ties Troubletwisters Troubletwisters: The Missing (Missing, Presumed Evil) Troubletwisters: The Monster Troubletwisters: The Mystery Broken Land: The Dust Devils Her Perilous Mansion Fixers: Curse of the Vampire Fixers: Invasion of the Freaks Broken Land: The Scarecrow
Mainstream Sci-Fi 113 (Twinmaker) Astropolis: Cenotaxis Astropolis: Earth Ascendant Astropolis: Saturn Returns Crashland Evergence: The Dark Imbalance Evergence: The Dying Light Hollowgirl Metal Fatigue Orphans: Echoes of Earth Orphans: Heirs of Earth Orphans: Orphans of Earth Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance The Resurrected Man Twinmaker Astropolis: The Grand Conjunction Geodesica: Descent Geodesica: Ascent Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Remnant Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Refugee Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Reunion Evergence: The Prodigal Sun
Collections A View Before Dying Bonus Twinmaker Stories Doorway to Eternity Eyes on the Stars Go (Twinmaker) Gods of Space Light Bodies Falling Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams Matterpunk (Twinmaker) New Adventures in Sci-Fi Praying to the Aliens Sleeping Boys Strange Ways The Earthlings The Future Trap The View from the End of the World The E. W. Story Omnibus
Music “Cinnabar Field” “Collapsar” & “Gravatar” “Echoes of Tithonus” “Gathering the Light” “Have Heart, Will Travel” / “The Anchor Tree” “humbug” (noise sampler) “Invisible Assembly” “Laura of the Bells” “Nostalgiac” “Oratunga Noir” “Resonance” “the air is full of phantoms” (ambient sampler) “under the bright Cuernavaca sky” (with Sam Rosenthal) Adrift (with deepspace) alive in the hall of possibilities and_scape Inner Real Life mach ruhe moth Slow Pianos Structured Ambient Noise Isolation Spiral Symphony
Opinions “A Day in the Life of…” “Behind the Sofa” “Big Bang Brussels Sprouts” (recipe) “Bondage” (writing advice) “Carrie” “Collaboration made easy: 6 ways to build a writing relationship” “Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism” “Elsewhere” “From the ‘Angry Shilling’ to the ‘Jealous Wall'” “Get Lost” (on novel writing) “Hardwired” (interview) “Her Name Is Cordelia” “Introduction to The Shrieking Pit” “Introduction to When I Close My Eyes” “Keeping the Pace” (writing advice) “Naamgenoot” (The Listserve) “No Axis, No Boundary: Defining Science Fiction” “On the Dangers of Literature Addiction” (speech) “On the Fly” (essay) “SF and Music” “Sparks” “The 10.5 Commandments of Writing” “The A-Z of Writing” “The Commandments of Writing” (The Conversation) “The Nix Files” “The Tragic Demise of Science Fiction’s Greatest Idea” “Three Visits to the Ring of Kerry” “To Sleep No More (Perchance to Write)” “What’s In My Bag?” “Why Fantasy & Science Fiction?” (speech) “Humour, Justice, Belonging, Danger, and Wonder: 5 story senses and the art of writing for children” "Introduction to The Lady of Situations" Inside a Dog (residency) The Adventures of Antarctica Sean The Adventures of Canberra Sean “MT Promises: Science Fictional Travel Technologies and the Making and Unmaking of Corporeal Identity”
Poetry “Artefact: Ant Attack” “Daihaiku” and “Haikaiju” “Daikaiju Limericks” “Dreamless: Super-Villanelle Dub Mix” and “Dreamless: Super-Villanelle Dub Alternate Mix” “Eternity” “M-Cubed” “Moist” “No Solace Among Others” “Parched” “Reflections on Water” “The Origin of Haiku by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Renga in the Struggle for Meaning” “The Rise, and Fall, of Neologopolis” Haiku Limerick
Short Works Fantasy “A Better Place” “Seeking the Great Current” “Team Sharon” “The Butterfly Merchant” “The Empire’s Son” “The Goggle” “The Jade Woman of the Luminous Star” “The Leaf” “The Magic Dirt Experiment” “The Mirror in the Middle of the Maze” “The Spark (A Romance in Four Acts): A Tale of the Change” “Ungentle Fire” Five Articles Selected at Random from the Scarlet Exposition
Horror “(Untitled)” “Burglar Alarm” “Crossed Lines” “Doorway to Eternity” “Freezing Sarah” “Going Nowhere” “Hunting Ground” “Mary’s Blood” “Mawson on the Moon” “Nightmare” “Passing the Bone” “Playing Radio” “Playing Radio” “Reluctant Misty & the House on Burden Street” “Signs of Death” “Tears of the Living Dead” “The Darkest Night” “The Girl-Thing” “The Wedding of the Millennium, Part 1: The Twain” “The Wedding of the Millennium, Part 2: The Barren Heart” “The Winter Gardener” “Twist of the Knife” “Woman’s Revenge”
Mainstream Sci-Fi “A Giant Leap for a Man” “A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (And the Threat It Entails)” “A Longing for the Dark” “A Map of the Mines of Barnath” “A View Before Dying” “A View from the End of the World” “All the Wrong Places” “Atrax” “Cold Sleep, Cold Dreams” “Dark Gardens” “Death & the Hobbyist” “Deconstructing Decompression” “Dissolution Days” “Dying for Air” “Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie” “Evermore” “Face Value” “Ghost of a Day” “Ghosts of the Fall” “Goddess of Stone” “Heartbreak Hotel” “Hollow Men” “I, Q” “Immaterial Progress” “In the Eye of the Octopus” “Incomplete No.7” “Inevitable” “Light Bodies Falling” “Looking Forward, Looking Back: “Loopholes in Light” “Love and Mandarins” “Lust, Entrapment and the Matter Transmitter: A Case Study” “Midnight in the Cafe of the Black Madonna” “Murdering Miss Deboo” “Mutata Superesse” “New Flames for an Old Love” “Night of the Dolls” “Noah No-one and the Infinity Machine” “On the Road to Tarsus” “On This Rock” “Or Die Trying” “Rare Justice” “Redux” “Reunion” “Robbery, Assault and Battery” “Salvation” “Sing, My Murdered Darlings” “Tall Tales about Today My Great-great-granddaughter Will Tell” “The Beholders” “The Blink” “The Cuckoo” “The Dark Matters” “The End of the World Begins at Home” “The Haunted Earth” “The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto” “The Land Itself” “The Legend Trap” “The Lives of Riley” “The Mashup” “The Masque of Agamemnon” “The Missing Metatarsal” “The N-Body Solution” “The New Venusians” “The Nightmare Stars” “The Other Forty-Two” “The Perfect Gun” “The Second Coming of the Martians” “The Seventh Letter” “The Soap Bubble” “The Stuff of Dreams (& Far Stranger Things” “The Third and Final Death of Ronald Saw” “The Thirteenth Protocol” “The Trilerbe Dulciftify” “The Truth in Advertising” “The Tyranny of Distance” “This Magical Life” “Tourist” “Traffic” “Uber” “White Christmas” “Zero Temptation” “The Misadventures of Tom Jones, Time Traveller”
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Love it! I must write the book…
Thanks! Good luck!
Hey Sean, will you be in Melbourne anytime in the future? Would love to get my books signed!
I don’t have any firm dates yet, but April is a possibility. Watch this space!
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I shall be lurking this space. Good luck in your endeavours!
Thanks! Nice to see you here. PS. That’s an energy dome, spud boy!
“Afraid that no one around me understands my potato.
Think I’m only a spudboy, looking for a real tomato.”
“I’m tired of the soup du jour. . . .”