Fiction Index

This is an index of the fiction I have posted here. There’s not much at the moment but that should change with time.

EVE Fiction

He Gave Up the Stars – Posted for Blog Banter #6, just after the dissolution of BoB.

Dust 514 Fiction

Platoon XIII.

Inspired by an old idea that I’d had floating around in my head for the last 10 years or so, given life in the EVE universe through the medium of Dust 514.

Other Fiction.

Nothing planned for this section yet, but who knows.

Author’s Note.

I’ve wanted to tell stories since I was a small boy. In my first years at school I filled my ‘News’ jotter with flights of fantasy such as going to see Superman IV years before they even started to make it, and tales of battles with dragons and giant robots (gimme a break, I was four). Though I was encouraged to read from a very young age, these ‘news’ stories were rejected by my teachers for being outright lies. Thats what writers of fiction do though, they lie to you.

Sometimes though those lies can hold a core of truth. This is something I had drummed into me at senior school, every story has to have a deeper hidden meaning. Some are better hidden than others, some are hidden so well that you don’t even know they are there. This led me to want to tell a story that had a truth sealed within it, and to begin with that was where I would start. I’d think of what I wanted to say through the writing of a story, before I even had a story to write. I struggled with this for a long time.

Then I realised that I was going about the whole thing backwards. A story starts with itself, has a character and plot which grows with it and emerges as it is written. Only once it is finished might it reveal its meaning to the writer, and possibly the reader as well. If it is a story worth writing it will gain its meaning organically, without it being premeditated or planned. This realisation took me years to come to, and it was then that I found places to start writing.

I no longer try to tie my stories to a meaning, or meaning to my stories. If meaning, subtext, allegory, and metaphor are there then they will make themselves known when the story is done.

M out