Stuart Aken
64 years old
Male
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Driffield
United Kingdom
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Going through my website, which has 300 links to other websites for readers and writers - trying to discover if any of those links need changing. It's an interesting exercise but time consuming.Information
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Are you a ...?Writer published in mags, etcWhat genre do you primarily write in?General fictionIf you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?FantasyAre your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?William Golding, William Horwood, Richard Adams, John FowlesAnd your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Stonor Eagles, Maia, The Magus, The Pyramid, Shorter Oxford Dictionary, My Son My Son, Becoming A WriterWhat are your working habits when you write?DisciplinedAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Ten times? Why so little?Your ultimate writing ambition?To make a living with my words and have them read by the entire world, or, at least, half a dozen literate folk.Your worst habit?Helping other writers, when I really should be doing my own work.Your opinion on the books industry?It is a tough game, but everyone does their bestWhere do you write?In a box, comically designated the 3rd bedroom of my bungalow.What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?907 yrs old, been writing for 902 & at the stage where I might be learning something about writing. I run a website http://www.stuartaken.co.uk/ & blog http://stuartaken.blogspot.com/, aimed at helping other writers whilst promoting my work.
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Writer of short stories, one published novel, a radio play and several articles on photography. Currently engaged in a fantasy trilogy for adults.
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by Stuart Aken 1 year agoHorror/Humour must be one of the most difficult genres to balance, unless you're going down the 'Carry On...' line. I don't envy you the task but I admire your courage.
Must be difficult in the broadband era still managing on dial-up. I recall I used to use a site that allowed you to pay a penny per hour but it took about that long just to get my emails up and running. I suspect it would be difficult for you to 'follow' my blog for the same reason. Re my book, if you go onto the website, www.stuartaken.co.uk and go to the 'Novels' page, you'll find the first 2 chaps there to read and that, as it's just text, should upload quite quickly for you.
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by Caf 1 year agoHi Stuart I finally managed to get my Blog, up and running, I was using the wrong search engine. Now that I am on Firefox, I can also follow the links properly. I had a look at your Blog, very interesting! Unfortunately I can't get into your Book because I'm on dial up, I tried to and twelve hours later I was still waiting!!
Loved your profile, it struck a chord. My husband got a job as a Manager on a Banana and Avocado farm in the (then) Eastern Transvaal. I was so happy there, we had hippos in the garden, crocs in the dam and were literally about 20 minutes from the Kruger Park. Then the farm was sold and he got retrenched, in one step we lost his employment and our home, it was really, really frightening.
I'm hoping that I can now use all these experiences in my book, I am basing it around here, The Valley of a Thousand Hills, which I absolutely love. It's supposed to be Horror/Humour, not working properly though. -
by Blade 1 year agoHello Stuart, thank you for the welcome. I'm delighted to have been led to this site by a fellow wannabe! What a friendly bunch! -
by Mary Lazarus 1 year agoHello there Mr. Aken, thank you for your wonderful and warm welcome. Well i have been trying to get my novel published but so far all that I have received is rejection...but I haven't given up yet... -
by Wrathnar the Unreasonable 1 year agoI've added myself as a follower of your blogspot blog. I've blogged on the Cloud about Blogspot, would very much appreciate your input. My Blogspot skills are minimal, I don't think I've entirely got the hang of it!
