All Entries Tagged With: "novelist"
Skull Cinema
I get no time to write creatively these days, and I don’t do a whole lot of reading outside that which is required for my work. I miss both, and for the same reason: Skull Cinema. This was a phrase coined by Stephen King. It describes the imaginary movie projector inside a reader’s head that [...]
Bucked Off The Hobby Horse
Are you feeling a little bucked off? Did you enter freelance writing to become a famous novelist only to wind up writing thousands of SEO articles on subjects that now haunt your dreams because of their overwhelming presence in your waking day? I expect the career of many a freelance writer has started out this [...]
Internet Killed the Writing Star
The Buggles wrote a little ditty back in 1979 called “Video Killed the Radio Star”. It bemoaned the coming age of music videos, portending a career death to all those singers and groups who had once made their living from the radio. Stupid song, really. The singers and groups all inevitably ended up making music [...]
Morsmorde
Apparently, in Harry Potter spell-speak, that word means to “Conjure the Dark Mark”. I don’t know what that refers to in Harry Potterland, nor do I give a crap, but I like it. I think I may have a website called that. I’m a dour sod at times. Dark Mark. That’s me. Dark Mark Pepper. [...]
Do You Really Wanna Write? Do Ya?
In a cinematic precursor to his current real-life lunacy, Mel Gibson played a nut-job cop in the Lethal Weapon films. In his first outing as Detective Martin Riggs, he grabbed the chance to talk a jumper out of throwing himself off a high-rise. Having handcuffed himself to the potential suicide, Riggs (suicidal himself) quickly gets [...]
My Christmas Writing Projects
I have written novels, but please don’t expect a Christmas card from me. They’re just too hard. I would rather stare at an empty screen awaiting a first page of a novel than look at a blank Christmas card. “The message inside this card is blank.” Sod that. If I see that on the reverse [...]
WUI
People often ask me: Mark, they say, Mark me old mucker, is it a good idea to drink alcohol when you’re writing? I mean, you being a top novelist, and all that. What do you think, Mark? Actually, no one has ever asked me that. In fact, no one has ever sought my advice on [...]
The Search For Perfection …
Mark Pepper is in da house once again. Another corker post from Mark that rings close to home for many, no doubt. To see Mark’s other works of art read Writer (GSOH) Seeks Doting Employer and How To Become An Ex-novelist. The famous philosopher Sting once wrote: “I’ve spent too many years at war with [...]
How To Become An Ex-novelist
If you ever wanted to be a novelist, now is your chance to see what happens behind the curtain of fame. This is a riveting ‘behind the scenes’ look of MarkPepper’s too short life as a novelist and why he never published another book. The heat in this iron is now two weeks old, but [...]
