The Queen’s Lancers Fragment

A little something to keep me working on my Lancer WIP – or “Not The Musketeers” as I often describe it to people. It was inspired by The Three Musketeers and there are a number of scenes that will be borrowed from it, although used in slightly different ways and, obviously, not word for word.

As with Dumas’ work, we meet our three soldiers, Lancers in this instance, when they are about to be disciplined … Continue reading

Under Smoke City Fragment

Here’s a bit of a noodle from this morning that I may come back to and extend further. However, extension will require a lot more work as the parallel I used breaks down. Basically, this is a sort of steampunk version of / borrowing from Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood that entered my brain some time ago but woke me up this morning needing some exercise. I’ve yet to work out what character names would … Continue reading

Into The Greenwood

As promised, here’s the opening paragraphs of my three current works in progress that are based on the idea of the Greenwood – to my mind, that fictional woodland in constant early summer where all the fairy tales happen. The three stories are given their working titles, i.e. they may change by the time they’re published if they’re published, and in the order I started working on them: