Gareth Spark

Writer | Poet | Playwright | The Dark Earth of Albion from @plasticbrainpress | Rural type | Working Class | he/him | Folkhorrible.

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

For new followers, here I am on the excellent @brainplastic podcast discussing my book, The dark earth of Albion, various #Whitby folktales and ghost stories, writing in general and a demonic pig!

#folkhorror #podcast
#writing #Yorkshire #ghoststories

https://t.co/vy5hN1ZCHC

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

See this field? This beautiful field? The bandits at @StonebridgeHome are wanting to build 200 houses on this, houses for 2nd home vampires who bring nothing to #Whitby and do you know what? We're going to fight them tooth and nail, we will destroy this 1 way or another 😠

[Bud Smith @Bud_Smith]

Teenager reviewed at Full Stop @fullstopmag — by Paula Bomer

https://t.co/lMUsEID2Mz

[Brent Spiner @BrentSpiner]

I once passed James Caan in the commissary at Paramount Pictures. He looked me over in my Data makeup and uniform and uttered just one word, “Working?” Honored. RIP

[Andres Quiroga ⚡️⚡️⚡️ @aresluoga]

"I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled."
#RobertEvans

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

@bearspeaks I came to your work via Rima Staines...so glad I did!!!

[Taco Bell Quarterly @TBQuarterly]

Poetry isn't something you recite after you give up. It's the summoning and shouting and prayers before you charge at the gods you don't believe in. Live más.

[C. Robert Cargill @Massawyrm]

You are the arbiter of your own happiness. Nothing and no one can make you happy unless you allow it to. And it takes a while to learn exactly how to do that.

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Gypsies & Travellers existence is illegal as of today. There’s too much I can say, but honestly, I’d just end up upsetting too many.

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

At work this morning & said, "Do you know what? A bloke just dropped his money by the tills and do you know what he said?"
"What?"
"He said 'oh, bother' and I wish that was me. I wish I was the kind of person who says, 'Oh, bother' instead of 'for fuck's sake' 47 times a day."

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

Walking to work, thinking about that episode of My So Called Life where Juliana Hatfield played a guitar playing ghost....

#mysocalledlife #julianahatfield

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Shout out to the top 5 aders in the world, Darth V, Ruth B, Space Inv, third gr and Bill H.

[CrimeReads @CrimeReads]

"Only someone who has experienced that kind of love and adoration can so deeply feel its absence." https://t.co/s5HEziJ0lb

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

Zoom meetings don't work in rural North Yorkshire clearly! #sigh

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

Really enjoyed Ben Myers, The Perfect Golden Circle but his characteristic pessimism/misanthropy creeps in at the end a wee bit. But, hey, as anyone who's read my stories can tell you, I'm not innocent of that myself!

[Taco Bell Quarterly @TBQuarterly]

I have no MFA, no books, and no experience and have named myself the prestigious arbiter of taco bell literature. you can do whatever you want in the literary world. go write your beautiful novel.

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

I go from "this is the greatest thing I've ever written" to "nobody will EVER publish this" daily, if not hourly. However A) both statements can be true, and B) I'm enjoying the hell out of writing it.
So I'll go on.
My advice to anyone in a similar dilemma?
Go on.
#amwriting

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

"John Sayles read Frank Ray Perilli's script for the film once and then totally scrapped it. Sayles said it was set in Milwaukee and explained that the alligator grew gigantic because of beer."

Same here, Alligator, same here 😆

[Gareth Spark @darkalbion]

Day off work so naturally I'm laden with cold and feel like 🤢 So am catching up with a few hidden gems on shudder, starting with this absolute 💯 banger. Also has one of my favourite pieces of imdb trivia: