Sep 17Member-onlyWhy I left Wattpad for SubstackMy first, tentative Substack newsletter was sent in May 2021. After poking a toe in the water, I committed to multiple newsletters per month in September 2021 and haven’t looked back since. What was initially a Mailchimp replacement has since become the central hub for all of my creative output…Substack7 min readSubstack7 min read
Jun 6, 2022Member-onlyAI art for writersIs it a threat or a useful tool? — A couple of weeks ago I read an interesting article about the nascent state of AI art. Here it is. It’s a subject that has since stuck in my brain and refused to go away, largely because I seem unable to settle my own thoughts on it. But as a…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Feb 7, 2022Welcome to the TriverseTales from the Triverse is my weekly fiction serial with new chapters posted every Friday. If you subscribe you get them straight to your inbox. I publish it over on my Substack newsletter. You can read the on-going story entirely for free, or become a paying subscriber to help support…Fiction3 min readFiction3 min read
Published inadventures in fiction·Jan 31, 2022Member-onlyWe don’t talk about writer’s blockActually we do, all the time — I’m not sure I believe in writer’s block. Of course, if you experience it, that’s fine — I absolutely believe you. But for me, writer’s block doesn’t really exist. A lot of anxiety around writer’s block I think comes from a misconception about what writing is, and what counts as…Writers Block4 min readWriters Block4 min read
Published inadventures in fiction·Nov 29, 2021Member-only9 useful platforms for writersFree ways to publish and find readers — Today’s newsletter is all about different writing platforms. This should be useful regardless of what you write, although I do inevitably have a focus towards fiction platforms. According to my profile, I joined Wattpad in August 2013. I then proceeded to flail about, posting short stories without any clear strategy…Writing9 min readWriting9 min read
Published inadventures in fiction·Nov 15, 2021Member-onlyWriting public first drafts(and why it isn’t a completely terrible idea) — Writing an online serial is a particularly public form of writing. You’ll probably be publishing a new chapter at least once a week, which means that you’re connecting directly with your readers on a weekly basis. It’s not the same as publishing a book traditionally, where the author maintains a…Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Oct 26, 2021Member-onlyAdapting games into movies might never workI just watched the trailer for the Uncharted movie, which is a long-anticipated adaptation of the hugely popular and critically acclaimed Playstation games: There are numerous aspects of the trailer that don’t quite work for me, primarily its liberal attitude towards physics, but it got me thinking about why…Uncharted4 min readUncharted4 min read
Oct 18, 2021Member-onlyRediscovering the joy of a magazineIn the 1990s I used to wait eagerly for EMPIRE magazine to drop through the letterbox once a month. Later, that same excitement was for PC ZONE. …Magazine4 min readMagazine4 min read
Published inadventures in fiction·Sep 27, 2021Member-onlyAbout those unfinished novelsThis is part of my How to Write Serialised Fiction guide. You can find more on my Substack here: https://simonkjones.substack.com/s/how-to-write-serialised-fiction Writers write. That’s what we do, all through our lives, to a greater or lesser degree. Sometimes more toward the lesser. Often it can all feel like tinkering, or bursts…Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published inadventures in fiction·Sep 25, 2021Member-onlyLaunching a novel on SubstackI’ve just started serialising my new novel over on Substack. It’s worth pointing out that I was intending to do this long before Salman Rushdie and Chuck Palahniuk started making headlines for doing the same thing. Wattpad has been my primary publishing destination since 2015, when I first started experimenting…Serial Fiction3 min readSerial Fiction3 min read
