https://videopress.com/v/U2wFlAXm?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Welcome back to my website and a happy New Year! I’d like to follow on from”what goes on inside the mind of a fiction writer’ from my last post and include some problems and challenges facing me. I’d like also to mention marketing and other annoying aspects of trying to sell my book and... Continue Reading →
What goes on inside the mind of a fiction writer? I want to explore how I came up with the characters in my novel The Formula of Memory and share direct sections from the book. I’ll share a link below to Amazon-kdp if you’d like to buy a copy, please do! Firstly, the two main... Continue Reading →
It’s all happening! My debut novel, The Formula of Memory is being released on Amazon tomorrow, October 15. It’s been nearly five years since I wrote the first chapter, I’m excited that the finished, self-published product is getting out there. The book is available from Amazon, who are really quick with delivery time. It’s also... Continue Reading →
I’ll be honest; this may be my final blog for a while. Why? The main reason is that unless you promote your work constantly, which also means writing constantly, people don’t read it. And the trend now is to watch YouTube clips. People want visuals as well as good content. It’s like my time keeps... Continue Reading →
Blog six October 2023 The Big Move I’ve been absent lately…Sorry… I’ve moved to a small country town with all the disruption that brings…but it’s quieter, a necessary ingredient to writing. In this post, I want to briefly analyse the Cormac McCarthy novel The Road which I’ve just read. For those of you who are... Continue Reading →
February 2023 Blog Another year, another mountain of blank pages to fill… That’s a mixed metaphor—you usually have to climb mountains. I’d rather avoid them, unless… In this blog, I’d like to present and analysis of the two latest books I’ve read that deal with something critically important to me. Nature. More specifically how the... Continue Reading →
I’d like to focus on the writing process, both mine and other favorite authors- Andy Weir and Richard Powers. Andy Weir wrote The Martian in 2011 as a series on his blog which then was picked up and published in 2014. It then became a huge movie hit. The plot was simple: a lone astronaut... Continue Reading →
The image shows a bonsai tree, shaped by human hands, contained in a pot. Is nature then, just a plaything designed to amuse us? I’d like to share a poem I wrote last year that won a small prize in a competition. It’s called About Nature” (The first two lines I have used in my... Continue Reading →
The Android Minsky (Source: spotlightofjuly/Redbubble) I can help! Such a simple statement from the android Minsky (Fargo: Season three), (sadly, just removed from Netflix after five years.) The story revolves about an android from the planet Wyh who roams the galaxy for billions of years and finally ends up on Earth. The android wanders here... Continue Reading →
Welcome! What a simple word. Very apt and poignant, I think. I haven’t written for a while, sort of ‘in between’ projects after completing the novel. It’s in draft form, being read by friends and family acting as my ‘beta readers.’ I decided on a title: Unteachable- some lessons in life cannot be taught. That... Continue Reading →
WordWheelsWrites from the author Christopher Williams 