Writing isn’t a 100-metre dash—but it’s being treated like one. Why does the hint of AI get the craft accused of crime? 👉 ridleypark.blog/2025/11/12/c...
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In this post, I question the idea of making an audiobook. One size does not fit all.

👉 ridleypark.blog/.../02/shoul...

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Octavia Butler’s Lilith in Dawn is meant as radical, but she ends up repeating archetypes of Western femininity. Judith Butler would see her as pure performativity.

My reflection → philosophics.blog/2025/09/08/b...

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Aliens don’t breathe, but authors live off reviews. 💜
Thank you for reading Sustenance and sharing your words.

📝 New post: ridleypark.blog/2025/09/09/t...

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👽 Literary sci-fi meets cornfields and confusion.
Sustenance explores alien encounters, human projection, and awkward rural intimacy—with a healthy dose of crop-circle weirdness.
📕 Out now in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9VGH8FP

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Kafka gave us Gregor Samsa: turned into vermin, stripped of usefulness, left to rot in silence. Irvine Welsh answered with Boab Coyle in The Granton Star Cause.
philosophics.blog/2025/08/29/b...

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Most novels behave like products. Sustenance doesn’t. Paratext as warning label. Prose that wobbles. Realism swerving into horror, SF, rural noir. Grit instead of smoothies. Closure denied.
philosophics.blog/2025/08/25/s...
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Less Than Zero was gutted. Trainspotting, diluted. Both novels exposed Reagan’s children + Thatcher’s lost boys. The films sold us photogenic junkies.

🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/08/22/f...

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Thanks #AI #Spellcheckers like #Copilot. Useful #ideas. #Nature and #Wilderness are clearly #synonyms. #humour #satire #screenshot #writing #editing

“Most art isn’t high art. Most writing isn’t literature. Readers don’t crave artistic purity. If AI helps them get there, let them. What's the outrage?

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Predictive text: proof that Markov chains are running the asylum. Start typing something poetic, and it hands you a bureaucratic nightmare. Maths is everywhere—even if you pretend you’ve never used algebra.

philosophics.blog/2025/07/29/o...

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Not sure how many more “how to sell books” ads I can take.

I don’t write for trends. I don’t bend to the market. I write literary fiction, often without plot, without mercy.

Blog:
ridleypark.blog/2025/07/28/e...

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Came back to my manuscript like Gandalf in Moria.
“I have no memory of this place.”
Too long a break and suddenly I’m editing ruins, not pages.
Note to self: finish the damn scene before the ink dries.

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