Today I received an email from an agency thanking me for my submission of The Chimney Rabbit, but apologising that they wouldn’t be able to offer to take it any further. This wasn’t the first rejection I’ve received, and it almost certainly won’t be the last, but what makes it difficult is the lack of… Read More
writing
I can’t draw. Or paint, or sculpt, or anything else that involves the visual arts. I can just about lay out a page of text so it doesn’t look completely terrible, but that’s probably the extent of my artistic ability. So when, many many years ago, I had a short story published in Exuberance, a… Read More
Imaginary worlds
Earlier this week, science fiction writer John Scalzi wrote about Richard Stern, who died recently. Scalzi attended a creative writing class taught by Stern, and one thing he recounts about the experience seemed very familiar. Scalzi says: My first problem was that on the first day of class, Stern said to us that he wouldn’t… Read More
Why Scrivener?
I mentioned in my first post that I was using Scrivener to write my novels. It really is an excellent piece of software, and I must give it at least some of the credit for allowing me to complete my first novel. I’m a technical writer, and I’ve been using Word for nearly 20 years…. Read More
And so it begins
My name is John K. Fulton, and I’ve been writing since I was a teenager. For the past twenty years I’ve been the clichéd “technical writer who would secretly like to be a proper writer” but it’s only in the past year that I’ve decided to take the next step and actually try to get… Read More