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Kris Ashton
Feb 17, 20142 min read
My Writing Process – Blog Tour
Many thanks to Isabella Hargreaves, fellow Steam eReads author, for involving me in this blog tour. What am I working on? A week ago I...
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Kris Ashton
Feb 17, 20142 min read
My Writing Process – Blog Tour
Many thanks to Isabella Hargreaves, fellow Steam eReads author, for involving me in this blog tour. What am I working on? A week ago I...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 24, 20144 min read
The musicality of language
Journalism is one of the few remaining careers where a qualification isn’t the be all and end all; even if you don’t have a Bachelor of...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 24, 20144 min read
The musicality of language
Journalism is one of the few remaining careers where a qualification isn’t the be all and end all; even if you don’t have a Bachelor of...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 14, 20145 min read
A heretical review of Doctor Sleep
Anyone who has ever called Stephen King a hack needs to go and read The Shining. It is a masterpiece of modern horror, taking the classic...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 14, 20145 min read
A heretical review of Doctor Sleep
Anyone who has ever called Stephen King a hack needs to go and read The Shining. It is a masterpiece of modern horror, taking the classic...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 14, 20143 min read
The making of a metal kid
When I was a child I had no musical tastes of my own. I more or less listened to what my mother listened to, with the odd compilation of...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 14, 20143 min read
The making of a metal kid
When I was a child I had no musical tastes of my own. I more or less listened to what my mother listened to, with the odd compilation of...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 11, 20142 min read
Ballad of the flexible writer
As of January 10, it had been nearly two months since I wrote any fiction. Part of the problem was that a change in my job and my new...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 11, 20142 min read
Ballad of the flexible writer
As of January 10, it had been nearly two months since I wrote any fiction. Part of the problem was that a change in my job and my new...
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Kris Ashton
Dec 28, 20132 min read
The worst thing in the world
When I was about 12 or 13, I bought a videotape called Stephen King’s World of Horror. It appeared to be a TV documentary pieced together...
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Kris Ashton
Dec 16, 20133 min read
The thought that counts
I detest consumer holidays and I particularly dislike the commercialisation of Christmas. That there are certain days of the year when...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 29, 20132 min read
An original idea is non-negotiable
This week I made the painful decision to retire a story I loved. Written in 2008, I’ve spent the past five years shopping it to 15...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 23, 20132 min read
What happened to sportsmanship?
Why do we expect our sportsmen and women to be saints? It’s idiotic. Australia’s professional athletes are under microscopic scrutiny day...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 19, 20133 min read
Why I'd rather swim than surf
Earlier this year, Esquire ran a wonderful ad campaign propounding the virtues of magazines. The tagline was, ‘We surf the internet. We...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 15, 20133 min read
Technology: The fear we never conquer
This video was doing the rounds among my circle of Facebook friends last week. If you can't be bothered hitting the link, it's a series...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 11, 20133 min read
The most frequently asked question
Sooner or later a publishing writer will be asked: “Where do you get your ideas?” Answers traditionally have been facetious or sarcastic;...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 7, 20132 min read
The allure of the peculiar little town
As more than one writer of horror fiction has noted, there are a finite number of tropes in the genre which authors have been milling...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 7, 20132 min read
The allure of the peculiar little town
As more than one writer of horror fiction has noted, there are a finite number of tropes in the genre which authors have been milling...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 3, 20133 min read
Editing from an ivory tower
The wisest minds in the writing world will tell you how important it is to get a third party perspective on your story when it comes time...
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