I have remarked many times on this blog about the importance, for writers, of going out and seeing things, of always being ready to take a pause and properly appreciate your surroundings. You never…

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Sometimes, you can sit at your desk and computer for hours on end without the slightest hint of inspiration. You can write many words, and some of them might prove serviceable, but they’re mediocre…

Last week I took a memory to the head at forty miles an hour. I was in Birmingham, with friends, wandering around the excellent Museum and Art Gallery. We’d gone there mainly for pre-Raphaelites an…

I have once again fallen into the trap of Having Ideas before I have finished pushing the other ideas out of my head. I suppose this is an informal progress report, of sorts, on what I’ve been writ…

I want to do events. I have done events before; I would like to do events again. Despite my seeming inability to effectively market or advertise myself and my work, and my reluctance to blow my own…

It’s been a busy week. Not creatively. It’s been too busy for me to be properly creative, I think, which is never particularly pleasant. My work is not a job that typically taxes my creative brain …

Science-fiction, fantasy, and ramblings from Hûw Steer

Narratess Indie Book Sale

Firstly: Ad Luna is free until Monday in the Narratess sale; go check it out, and grab many many other free and discounted books while you’re at it. I might have to write some climate fiction, befo…

Narratess Indie Book Sale

Narratess Indie Book Sale

Salvage 7 is a book I have spent a long time writing. It is also a book I am currently spending a long time writing again. This, it turns out, is substantially harder than just writing it in the fi…