The Web Haunt of Ryan K Lindsay

Ryan K Lindsay is a young male and an Australian writer. He spends most of his time writing different things; novels, scripts for film, television and comics. Here he discusses his craft, the craft of much better writers and just stuff about books, music, teev, flicks and comics. This site is for when any other shade of brown just won't do.

Ruining My Life

I’m watching Willy Wonka and the Choclate Factory, not the creepy Johnny Depp version, but the original. The classic. The best. Everytime I watch it I’m amazed by how great it is, even though it really shouldn’t be a surprise. It consistently rocks the shit over the many years I’ve been watching it. I can [...]

Words Of Wisdom

I have a great quote on my wall above my laptop. I’ve been looking at it every day, many times a day, for the last few weeks since it was printed off and put up. Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. – Anton Chekhov I [...]

Titles

I am terrible at thinking up titles for things. Sometimes awesome titles will come to me, and sometimes I will struggle for a really long time. I cannot just think up a title, not like I can a lot of other words that I write. A title has to come to me, it has to [...]

The Corner

Writing is a torturous job. It can keep you up at night, it can make you only want to sleep in. It can consume your every thought, and it can cause all your thoughts to be born blank canvases, white paint on a white wall. Writing is not for the faint of heart, not feint [...]

When No One Is Looking

I have to have paper with me at all times. I am a constant note taker. At work today I had to keep myself busy for a few periods so I was taking notes about my latest story idea. This story just keeps growing. It started with a locale. From there I got a main [...]

New Ideas

I am spit balling some notes for a new idea I have. It’s very much early days, but I love the feeling of a new idea. It’s still all doughy and like wet clay, it can still become anything. I have a few different ways to go with it so have to nail down the [...]