A list of my writings on my writing journal awritan
Extracts from my Writings in Progress: The Four Territories, Redcross and Winterborough, Rodion & Hartley, Essays & non-fiction
The Four Territories (a fantasy novel) read the introduction
Allayna's Gallows (Book 4, April 28th 2008)
Tales of the Įranil: Ardīr (3/?, March 22nd, The way to Elfland)
Dreamgifts (Dark Beginnings, January 13th 2008)
Arandīr's capture (Book 4, December 24th 2007)
Allayna in protective!mode.Lady Winter (Book 1, December 9th 2007)
Arandīr visits Winter in the hope he can bargain with her for a postponement.
Prompt: Blood, love, and rhetoric.Cumulation, (Book 3, August 19th 2007)
All You Ever Wanted to Know, (Background, Pre-Book 1, March 4th 2007)
Cruel to be Kind, (Book 3, February 19th 2007)
Allayna asks Arandīr about the life of a warlord and unearths answers to more than just that question. Continuation of Injuries Parts I & II.Injuries Part II: The Waylaying, (Book 3, January 29th 2007)
Arandīr travels to his estate after receiving Allayna's dreamgift and finds that princesses are not so easily deterred, both suffering the consequences.Injuries, Part I: The Dreamgift, (Book 3, January 29th 2007)
Allayna offers Arandīr something he cannot accept.The Kobold, (Book 2, January 27th 2007)
Companion piece to White in the Shadows introducing another fantasy element.The Iron's Purpose, (Book 3, August 10 2006)
In the winter during Allayna's recovery, Arandīr finds himself pulled to the smithies both by necessity and inspiration.She Must Understand, (Book 3, September 6th 2005)
Careful, (Book 3, June 23rd 2005)
First Encounters, (Book 2, June 16th 2005)
Returning from the southern-most harbour, Arandīr first meets Allayna.White in the Shadows, (Book 3, June 12th 2005)
The first real fantasy elements I've dared to bring into the story. (And incredibly indirectly.)Foreshadowing (Book 3, March 25th and June 3rd 2005)
Past misjudgements, by virtue of circumstances, become advantages.Fair Day (Book 3, May 12th 2005)
Arandīr and Allayna enjoy a day at a fair, and discover some things they had not even considered about themselves and each other.The garden of the Other Palace (early Book 3, May 5th 2005)
Arandīr and the First City (Book 3, April 14th 2005)
Training Injuries (Book 3, March 17th 2005)
Characterisation: Allayna on Arandīr (Book 3, March 11th 2005)
Allayna's perspective on Arandīr's position at the Southern CourtTales of the Įranil: Ardīr (2/?, March 3rd 2005)
Tales of the Įranil: Ardīr (1/?, March 2nd 2005)
Arandīr Waits (Book 3, March 1st 2005)
Having left the South City and travelled north, Lindan reflects on Arandīr's motives for doing so and Randīr waits.
Redcross and Winterborough (a detective cycle) read the introduction
Lecture (December 31st 2007)
Howard attends a public lecture, I channel myself through characters.Crispin (Untitled novel, December 25th 2007)
Prompt: Its what I do at 2:30 in the morning when I cant sleep.Vrolijk evidence (The Devil, the World, and the Flesh, December 23rd 2007)
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." (Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes)Various NaNoWriMo ficbits. (The Palpable Obscure) One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Astin Investigates (The Devil, the World, and the Flesh, October 23rd 2007)
Gabriela Redcross (Untitled novel, October 14th 2007)
Robert Redcross (Past, October 6th 2007)
Pre-revelation (Sins of the Fathers, September 20th 2007)
Return to Cambridge (The Devil, the World, and the Flesh, June 13th 2007)
Past - Aftermath (The Devil, the World, and the Flesh, June 2nd 2007)
MA Information Lecture (The Devil, the World, and the Flesh, May 20th 2007)
Cambridge (estate and university) (Sins of the Fathers, April 1tth 2007)
Dinner with Ann Heale (The Devil, the World, and the Flesh, April 10th 2007)
Solving A Fountain Pen Mystery (March 29th 2007)
The Machine is Broken (The Book and the Baronet, March 28 2007)
Figuring Out the Past (March 26th 2007, spoilers for Devil)
With a Little Help from My Friends, (The Devil, the World, and the Flesh, March 7th 2007, spoilers for Devil)
Valentine's Day, (February 15th 2007)
Romancy fluff, just over 3000 words, Astin and Jules meet in a London hotel for Valentine's Day.Family Secrets, (January 23rd 2007)
An afternoon with the Redcross family is never boring.NaNoWriMo 2006: Nightmares (November 10th 2006)
NaNoWriMo 2005: plot summary + the revelation (November 27th 2005)
NaNoWriMo 2005: dialogue (telephone conversations) (November 10th 2005)
NaNoWriMo 2005: (end of the) Prologue (November 1st 2005)
Love of and by Books, (September 14th 2005)
Astin reflects on love, books, and how the two have influenced his life.Times Past, (August 18th 2005)
He doesn't know it yet, but Astin's life's just changed.The Fun of Quietly Interrupting Cambridge Lectures (March 6th 2005)
Rodion & Hartley (a detective story):
Gregor Rodion & Isabelle Hartley: Beginnings (April 6th 2008)
Essays & non-fiction:
Dissertation proposal (March 9th 2008)
Looking for Blondin (December 16th 2007, introduction), the sometimes epistolary saga of a PhD wannabe.
Rebellion and Usurpation, characterisation and power struggles in Miltons Paradise Lost and Keats's Hyperion (literature, January 15th 2007)
Sympathy for the Devil, in Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. (literature, December 20th)
The Law and the Lady & The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) (MA thesis extract, November 13th 2006)
The Waiting Game, in Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. (contemporary literature, May 2005)
Necessary Evil, The idea of hierarchy in the Prologue of Langland's Piers the Ploughman (philology, May 2005).
A Blueprint to Being King, Notions of kingship in 1 Henry IV, Macbeth, and King Lear (literature, April 2005)
Tradition vs. Personal Freedom - Characterisation in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (BA thesis, April 2005)
Their Just Deserts, Aspects of Feudalism in King Horn (philology, March 2005)
On E.M. Forster (Academic Writing: October 5th 2004)
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