A short story by Simon Groth
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Martin Finn wants to write the great Australian novel. Only trouble is he can’t speak, he can’t type, move a muscle in his body, only his eyes—up and down.
A Mini Shot of fiction published by Vignette Press. One magazine. One story. The [...]

After a few days away, I’ve returned to the hashed out chapter summaries and the manuscript itself. I’ve noticed a couple of things.
I think the chapter summaries are done, at least in the short term. If I get an opportunity to do so I’ll post an image of a page here, like I did with [...]

Completely irrelevant, but I have to reporoduce the lyrics of this song from 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields simply because I like it. Sixty-nine Love Songs is a ridiculously long record I’ve been spinning a bit lately. I’d love to slip a few almost perfect metaphors like these into the novel:
A pretty girl [...]

See? My capacity for unreliability knows no bounds. It’s probably a good time to note that this novel will contain a narrator as unreliable I am at blogging. In some ways I don’t want to reveal too much now, it’s still early days, but try if you will to imagine the kind of medical condition [...]

Here I am again. I’m almost at the end of my current read, Yellow Dog by Martin Amis, a fact that has embarrassed me into heaving myself out of the humidity and back to the keyboard. A quick reassessment will follow. I may even post later tonight with some results. But don’t wait for it.

I attempted to reply to a comment about using blog entries as a part of the text of the novel, but it got out of hand, so I figured it should be a blog entry on its own. I should insert a disclaimer here: I have no idea what I’m talking about. Enjoy!
Thanks, Raven. The [...]