Columnated Ruins Domino

The phosphorescent blathering of Rob Davies, a left-handed fabulist


Category: Writing

My Mother Is Going to Hate This, But…

28 February, 2008 (15:23) | Writing | No comments

My horror story “Angel, Rape, Wheelchair” just sold to Shroud Magazine. It should appear in the May/June Issue #3.
(I still find the title a bit odd. It was just a working title as I wrote the story, but in the end it just seemed to fit perfectly so I went with it.)
As you can tell [...]

Where I Get My Ideas

12 February, 2008 (19:25) | Writing | No comments

It is a simple enough question: Where do you get your ideas?
The answer is simple, too: Everywhere.
But I suspect you may want some more specificity, some meat on the bones, as it were.
Fine, I get many ideas by stealing them from other writers.
More accurately these types of ideas occur to me when I am [...]

Anthology Builder

19 January, 2008 (18:48) | Writing | No comments

My story “The Ship” (which originally appeared in Interzone) is now available at AnthologyBuilder.com, a new site that lets you pick stories from magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, etc., and create a custom anthology.
You can even come up with your own title to frighten [...]

Weird Post About Weird Writing for Weird Tales

11 December, 2007 (15:31) | Writing | No comments

I have a blog post over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, on the occasion of my story “Bruise for Bruise” being accepted by Weird Tales. It will be out sometime next year.
For those that don’t know, Jeff wrote City of Saints and Madmen, one of my favorite books of the last decade. Highly recommended.

Waiting…

14 March, 2007 (10:10) | Writing | No comments

I hate waiting for news about my submissions. I know all the advice says you should just keep sending stuff out and ignore wait times, but at some point I get too preoccupied with stories I have sent to various markets and can’t focus on new stories. Right now, I have four stories out and [...]