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My initiation into Faction Paradox

I’m really excited to be able to say I’m going to be part of a new Faction Paradox collection next year!

Posted byrobertsaysthis21st Apr 2021Posted inUncategorizedTags:faction paradox, sci fi, science fiction, Writing, writing announcementsLeave a comment on My initiation into Faction Paradox

My life as a body

Cartoon of a blob saying "Being a body is horrible, and yet somehow being a body in a society is even worse."

There was an extent to which being a body implied violence; like if you were going to keep on being a body this was something you’d have to be comfortable with. But then I never was, and still think I am not really, and so now I mostly forget I am a body at all.

Posted byrobertsaysthis12th Apr 2021Posted inWritingTags:actuallyautistic, autistic writing, body image, essay, WritingLeave a comment on My life as a body

The reality of coronavirus: Writing fiction in 2021

Some thoughts on trying to write a reality that includes a global pandemic in the fictional worlds we create.

Posted byrobertsaysthis17th Jan 2021Posted inWritingTags:coronavirus, COVID, fiction, writer, WritingLeave a comment on The reality of coronavirus: Writing fiction in 2021

Elabon

An image of a reddish-purple planet suspended in space.

A chapter from a novel I wrote ages ago about swimming through space and the strange planets you come to as you do.

Posted byrobertsaysthis10th Aug 2020Posted inStory, WritingTags:aliens, science fiction, short story, Story, WritingLeave a comment on Elabon

Complaint

A woman stands some distance above water, looking wistful.

A complaint I wrote to the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival’s Writing Awards that won second place in the awards themselves.

Posted byrobertsaysthis6th Aug 202010th Aug 2020Posted inWritingTags:depression, mental health, Scotland, Writing, zerotohero1 Comment on Complaint
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