Aidan Doyle » Writing http://www.aidandoyle.net The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologised Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:46:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Real Hokkaido Green http://www.aidandoyle.net/2010/11/08/the-real-hokkaido-green/ http://www.aidandoyle.net/2010/11/08/the-real-hokkaido-green/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:57:03 +0000 Aidan http://www.aidandoyle.net/?p=2391 I’ve been getting quite a few new readers visiting my web site after having read Hokkaido Green, my story on Strange Horizons.

I visited Hokkaido in the summer in 2007.   It has some really beautiful places.  Otaru and Sapporo are both nice cities and Arashiyama has a great zoo.

The hot spring waterfall I described in the story is a real place.  It’s in Shiretoko, in the north-east of Hokkaido.

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The five lakes is a popular place to go for a walk.alk.

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When I visited some of the trails were closed due to bear sightings.

I didn’t encounter any bears offering secrets though. Smile

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Japan Guide Shiretoko Travel Guide

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http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/09/stone-flowers/


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Complete with cool cover.

http://www.portiris.com


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My contributors’ copy of Worlds Next Door arrived recently.  It’s always a thrill to have a book with your name in it arrive in the mail.  My story Inksucker is one of the 25 stories for kids contained within.  I read the book and there are a lot of fun stories in there, along with some cool illustrations.

Another cool thing is that I’m sharing the table of contents with some very talented Australian writers, including a couple of my fellow Clarionites, Angie Rega and Angela Slatter plus others such as RJ Astruc.

Some stories take a long time between when I get the initial idea to finished result, but the ideas for Inksucker worked out quite quickly for me.  I still had to struggle to meet the deadline for contributions to the anthology.  The majority of the story was written on a 51-hour ferry ride from Osaka to Shanghai.

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http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/files/257.pdf

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