The Confidence Trick
How would you rate your confidence level?Writing prompt of the day Confidence is a weird thing for us Neurodivergent types. We spend our childhoods being told that we’re doing everything wrong. Then we become either timid, or rebellious teens, and whichever we choose that’s wrong too. Then we’re anxious adults desperately pretending to be whomever…
A question with some unpleasant baggage
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.Writing prompt of the day “What do you do?” I hate this question so much but I imagine that to many of my readers it seems entirely innocuous. I want to unpack some of the unpleasant baggage this question is carrying around. What someone means when…
The Destiny Scam
Do you believe in fate/destiny?Prompt of the day Excuse me while I get the hollow laughter out of the way. Of course I don’t believe in fate or destiny. If I did I’d have no option but to lay down and die. That’s the kind of destiny that people like me get. We die tragically…
I’m still publishing.
Yes, I am also surprised that I’m still going. I’m even more surprised that people are actually reading. Not a huge number of people to be sure but more than just me and my spouse. I’m publishing two stories via Royal Road. The first is A Kindness of Ravens, a tale of sexy spies and…
More Publishing!
I know. I’m shocked too. There’s a competition on Royal Road. For shorter fictions from the prompt “Uncharted Waters”. I decided this was a perfect prompt to write a story to introduce the world to my Sky Pirates of the Dune Sea setting. That’s me. You say water and I think of a story set…
People reading something I wrote? It’s more likely than you think
My novel A Kindness of Ravens now has 8 ‘chapters’ posted on Royal Road and most of them have more than 2 readers. One reader and it could just be me. Two and it could just be my spouse and I. More than 2 and someone else is definitely reading it. I don’t have much…
Free Words, Get yer Free Words here!
I have started something over on Royal Road. I’m sharing one of my novels. If you’re interested you can read it there. If you enjoy it you could bung me some money via Patreon (once the page is available) or buy me a coffee with Ko-Fi. This novel is complete so I’m just posting it…
I’m back (probably) and just as annoying.
I think that I’m finally ready to just start putting my completed novels out into the world. I intend to start posting them, serialised, on Royal Road. I’ll post a link here when the first parts go live. I’ve put together another Gallery page here. Feel free to bask in the beauty of my work.…
Start Here
I’m H.F. Calder, author and artist. Welcome to my Version 2 of my website. It’s something of a miscellany. Look around and you’ll find my professional blog, and also links to my personal blog and my fictional blog and some other blogs that I thought would be a good idea at the time. You’ll also find the Project Files. Those…
Preptober
With one month to go until NaNoWriMo begins it is time for some desperate last minute prep. I have only the vaguest of plans this year. I think I might be a rebel and write non-fiction. This is clearly a very bad idea. I have very little experience of writing non-fiction and since the thing…
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H.F. Calder, author and artist. 