Mark Fraser
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Mark Fraser
@mdfraser.bsky.social
He/him.
Marketer by day (for my sins).
Writer, musician and podcaster by night (and weekends).
I think the best thing about being a writer is the constant stream of rejection without feedback. You put across your best work, hope it meets unknown requirements and are left in the dark when it doesn't meet said requirements. Truly decimating to morale.
January 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Currently deep in the weeds on draft 5 of my novel and I think I've finally just realised that the reason I write a lot of dialogue is that it helps me find way through a scene. I end up deleting so much of it in the edit.
January 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Some (new) old work on the (new) substack.

open.substack.com/pub/mdfraser...
Reaching into the Past: Two Poems - March 2011
Some more reflections on early poetry, one of which I quite like.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Decided to basically archive a bunch of my writing on the Internet. Because I realise that even though I've been working on a book for 8 years, few people have actually seen my writing. So I'm going to post items I've had published. Starting with two poems:

open.substack.com/pub/mdfraser...
January 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Glasgow Southside but make it more black metal.
December 10, 2024 at 11:23 PM