The Subversive Desk
Janani DumbletonDark speculative fiction, and what I'm learning by writing it.
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Red Ties - Subverting a classic
This is a subversion of light and shadow, and the way I approach spec fic.
This is a piece I wrote today for Faber’s Writing Speculative Fiction. Take a fairy tale, and visualise it differently. This one is a story and trope done to death...
An ode to poems: I don't write poems.
Wrote this during London Writer’s Salon, 50 Days of Presence, and typical me discovers and joins on the last day.
The prompt: Write a poem about what inspires you to write poetry. Keep it close at hand for times when you need a little rem...
My First Festival as a Writer
End of day 2 - sitting in a quiet corner and writing the notes below.
I have been to too many conferences over my 30-year tech career, and the format is familiar, moving from enterprise software, to data, to AI, gaming and leadership. Lan...
Walking in Kaya’s Footsteps
I did not realise I was doing field research until halfway through the night in Tokyo. This is fairly on brand for me, plantsing my way through life.
I had gone to Japan because it had been on the list for years, and it was a promise to Pa...
Harcheau Manor - A descent into madness
This was my take on the descent into madness and an unreliable narrator. The premise is the story of a missing boy and a strange manor. The course has been a transformation for my writing style, darkness written from so many povs, and range...
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Moving slow and making things. Speculative fiction. Dark. Gothic.Horror. Subverting Reality. Art created alongside the writing.
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