Tales of humour, whimsy and courgettes
A cat kaiju? You gotta be kitten me.
I’m a bit late posting this today. I’m feline fine, I’ve just been purcastinating.
Does anyone recall the cat in that Marlon Brando gangster classic? The mogfather.
Oh, lordy. That’s the end of Kaijune. I’m back to pun-filled tales and horror stories tomorrow, on the black-sands islands. I’ll see you there.
Cheers!
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Story by Lady Black
The show at Theatre Spectaculation ensued with murder, blood and gore. The actors bowed and then sat down into chairs that had been placed behind them.
The stage and the actors were thrown into seizures as the electricity coursed through their bodies. After three minutes of the Friday night fry, smoke emanated from their lifeless bodies. The director, Thomas the Tintalator emerged and snarled, “a little pain for a little production, a little death for the day and the ultimate show is created.”
Story by Lady Black of Hope, Truth and Light. She’s been writing poetry since she was 15. Lady moved onto music, scriptwriting and now fiction. She’s not stopping there, with a t-shirt company, singing career and rock band in the works. Check out her blog at mentalhealthrecovery.home.blog
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This beast kept chewing herbs for hours on end and always spat them out. He didn’t even eat them! What a waste of thyme.
As time goes by, I’m becoming more conscious of waste. I have always been pretty eco-friendly. I use everything until it’s falling apart before I replace it.
The missus and I currently produce less than a litre of bin waste every two weeks. The only thing I go through a lot of is paper. My constant scribbling has filled two A4 file boxes in the last eight years. That doesn’t sound like much. But I draw at a tiny scale. The photos I scribble on are printed twelve per page.
I feel the only way I can improve with pen and ink is to draw at a larger scale. You’re limited on what you can fit onto a 2-inch square. But then, the way I draw and discard, I’d be using twelve sheets of paper a day instead of one.
The pot of ink and nib pen I just bought will last me twelve months. I think, over the next year, I’ll look into digital alternatives to pen and ink. Heck, I’ve written a course on turning doodles into digital graphics (clicky). There must be a way I can create something unique daily, cut out the paper use and improve what I do.
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I saw a fantastic invention for snakes with large breasts the other day. A co-bra.
It was created by a government-employed snake. She’s a civil-serpent.
She’s an amazing inventor who also created jobs for unemployed snakes cleaning cars. It’s great to see windscreen-vipers in work.
Good grief, will these posts ever end?
Also, will the internet ever be able to see a snake and not think of Albino Black Sheep?
Badger, badger, badger, badger…
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A turtley awesome kaiju for Kaijune this morning. This fella used to be an introvert, he was a shell of his former self. But now he’s come out of his shell.
He’s got a brother, they share the same mother, but the father was a porcupine. Now, if you cross a porcupine and a turtle you get a right slowpoke.
Oh, dear god, stop me.
Just three more kaiju and we’re done with this series. I shall miss these monsters.
I get told, quite often, I work hard when other writers see the graft I put into the fears. Honestly, I feel do work hard. But the big difference I find between myself and other writers is, I finish my drafts and projects. Then move on.
I’ll mash out stories all the time. My current ratio is writing 12 stories and discarding 6 of them. Of the 6 I keep, at least 3 need work before anyone’s going to read and groan at them. There are some days when I write and keep all 12 stories. There are other days when I write 12 shite stories and discard them all.
I take this approach with everything. Get stuff made first, discard the bad bits, keep the good bits. Then move on.
I say this because I’m still reading blogs I was reading 15 years ago, and their authors still haven’t finished their books first draft. I get, life’s hard, writings hard, but get the damn draft finished. You’re probably not going to keep half of it anyway, right?
What is it they say?
The purpose of a first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
Get your darned drafts finished people.
A little something that might help. A free course on Skillshare, Bring Characters to Life in Your Writing: Describing Traits, Actions, and Thoughts.
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Yes, I know a bovine kaiju is udderly ridiculous. I didn’t want to do a bovine kaiju for Kaijune. But sometimes, you have to go with the herd.
Hah! Badumtish!
Currently writing all of next months stories. We’ll be hanging around the black-sand islands for July. A series of summer holiday stories, of lost fears.
I have around 600 tales already pre-written. However, the stories are heavily serialized. This didn’t work for me during Brass (clicky). I wrote about my experience with serialized fiction online in-depth in an earlier post (clicky). I don’t want to scrap them, but I also don’t want to publish them on the site. There are ideas and themes amongst them I could use elsewhere.
I guess the lesson here is, don’t write too far ahead.
Just mentioning this again, if you want to revisit any of my earlier series of Fears, you can buy the first five series in book form on Amazon (clicky). Or read all seven series for free by checking out my websites spiffy new front page and scrolling down (littlefears.co.uk).
Hey, I just realised how good the reviews are on my books on Amazon. That’s very heartwarming.
Cheers, gang.
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Reptilious needed some peace and quiet while he cooked dinner.
So, he pulled the batteries out of the smoke alarm.
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Insurance on dragons caves must be astronomical. Just think of the fire hazard.
I’ve heard dragons are proper into their tabletop games. Like the well-known RPG, “houses and humans.”
Sorry, dragon puns are awful and posts filled with them always drag-on.
Hah! Kertish! #SorryNotSorry
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Wouldn’t be right, having a Kaijune with no giant iguanas.
I have two more collaborations to publish. Then I hope to end this series of collabs. If you’ve already received the initial email from me and have started planning or writing a story for submission, let me know ASAP. My open offer to everyone for future collaborations may return. But I’m going to need a break from them.
Each collaboration takes 2-10 times longer to publish than my own daily stories. That’s OK when it’s only one story a week. But then add onto that the staggering amount of time wasters you get.
A lot of folks noticed I was taking submissions but didn’t read the blog post or initial email. For every one post that gets published, I sift through five random, unusable submissions. From Mills & Boon style romance too entire chapters of books. Nevermind the grammatical and spelling messes I’ve turned away. I don’t mind doing some correction. I also don’t mind letting some mistakes stay in their stories. I’m certainly not a perfectionist with spelling and grammar. But when there are ten mistakes in a 512 character long story? Be polite, use a spell checker before submitting a story, you know?
I would like to return to the collaborations. I enjoy working with other writers to create great stories. I get to see my characters in a new light. It’s great seeing folks riffing off the tropes I use daily. Collaborating is also a great learning experience. But right now, I need a break from them.
Cheers, gang.
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On review, this must be what my missus sees when I emerge from the duvet and burp my first belch of the day.
I tried some different nibs for this beast. The missus has approximately 400.
Million. 400 million.
Yeah, we’re chalk and cheese there. I have two little pen pots at most. The missus has twenty plus drawers of paints, brushes, inks and pens.
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