Doug Langille

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About Doug Langille
Doug Langille is a husband, father, writer and shameless technophile living the good life in Nova Scotia. He's also a grandfather, bird keeper, dog owner and cat butler.
Doug draws inspiration from his favourite authors, including: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Jack Whyte, Philip K. Dick and Robert W. Service.
He doesn't usually talk about himself in the third-person, but when he does he tends to bend the truth.
Doug draws inspiration from his favourite authors, including: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Jack Whyte, Philip K. Dick and Robert W. Service.
He doesn't usually talk about himself in the third-person, but when he does he tends to bend the truth.
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Blog postThe knife hit bone and Haley pushed it through into the soft cranial tissue. Red flowed around her hand, then grey, and then finally, black. She pulled back with a wet resistance and a weird plop. She cleaned the blade on her well-worn jeans and returned it to its sheath, strapped to her thigh. A place for everything and a thing for every place.
Simple. Mechanical. Instinct. Survival. How many times has she performed this sequence? Dozens? Hundreds? She’d lost track of the trappings o2 months ago Read more -
Blog postHello, said Tree. I’m in you and you’re in me.
Hello, said Tree. Soon we’ll be a family.
It started as a joke, really. Betsy dared me.
“Swallow that acorn and I’ll lift up my shirt. “Do it, David.”
It was a blistering hot summer day. The cicadas were screaming. We hung out under the big oak at the top of the hill. It was shady. We figured we’d pass the time with a few special gummies. Maybe screw around a bit. My stupid idea. Blame it on the heat.
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Blog post“Why are you late?” she asked through gritted teeth, wincing and relaxing again.
Such a simple question. Why was I late? Did it even matter? I was here now. That was what was important. That’s all. Are you sure about that?
The nurse’s gloved hand crossed my field of vision. With a damp cloth, she wiped Jenny’s brow.
“I’m here now,” I said and grabbed her hand. She squeeze hard, her whole body stiffening. It was getting close now.
A break in the p3 months ago Read more -
Blog postNo one. I mean NO ONE should be surprised about the Biden administration nixing the Keystone Pipeline. If you are surprised, you haven’t been paying attention. This project was dead in 2015 under Obama. If we’re being honest, it was dying from its inception in 2008.
Yes, folks should be pissed off about it. I am. A lot of money has been sunk into it. A lot of livelihoods are at stake. It’s an epic display of grand malfuckery.
But I’m glad too. It was a bad idea. The entire fos3 months ago Read more -
Blog postThe internet is both a terrible and wonderful place. I’d been in a funk for about a year or so. I hadn’t written much and I finished even less. It was a symptom of course. I’d found myself moving into a bad head-space. Things weren’t great for me. There was a lot of stress in my personal and professional life. I was spinning my wheels. I was getting so good at failing, that I stopped trying.
At a point I was near my lowest, I discovered No More Zero Days.
A few years ago, this3 years ago Read more -
Blog postMental wellness plagues society at large. Life is demanding and our resilience is low. The world asks a lot of us. Our families, our friends, our work. And even our passions.
We’re inundated with information 24/7 and have become addicted to social media. Mass media thrives on making us be afraid. We accept all this despite being demonstrably toxic. We cultivate a personal brand without realising it, painting an idealised version of ‘you’ to be consumed in the Newsfeed.
We all3 years ago Read more -
Blog postWe truly live in an age of distraction.
I’m young enough to dive headlong into the Internet and social media, yet old enough to pine for a simpler time.
As a teenager, it was all about the telephone and how long the cord could be stretched so my parents couldn’t hear my nonsense.
For my daughters, it was MSN Messenger. They breathed it like oxygen. It made for easy coercion and punishment. Ah, leverage to get a room clean. Good times.
For my grandkids, it’s the4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Douglas Adams I’ve been managing work and people for 20 years. These are things I’ve learned about deadlines and being accountable. They apply equally in the workplace, life and to personal writing projects. I still suck at most of them.
#1. Give a damn. If you don’t care about the deadline, you won’t make it. Invest in the ‘why’. Make it personal. Make it a priority.
#2. Write your commitments and4 years ago Read more -
Blog postArt is an interestingly human form of expression. Somewhere between the amygdala and the cortex, our brains can conjure the most amazing things.
Artists and artisans alike craft wondrous paintings and creations, vivid with colour and texture. Musicians can bend the ear and evoke such passion in one that it’s hard not to weep. Culinary masters delight our senses of smell and taste with feasts for our palates.
All of them masters of art. All of them eager to display what it’s li4 years ago Read more -
Blog postOne piece of oft-spoken writing advice is to write every day.
Every. Single. Day.
Perfecting the craft of grand wordsmithery is not unlike anything else. If you want to master a skill, you have to practice. Period.
Doesn’t matter if it’s decorative pastry art, weight lifting, or transanal endoscopic microsurgery. The first cake looks like crap. The 897th looks fantastic.
Why should writing be any different?
Trick rhetorical question! It isn’t.
T4 years ago Read more -
Blog post“How do you eat an elephant?”
“One bite at a time.”
So you’re sitting in front of a computer with a blinking cursor amid a vast emptiness of white. It’s a blank canvas yawning at you, daring you to spoil it with digital ink.
Your goal?
Write a novel.
Seventy-five thousand words.
No big deal.
Blink. Blink. Blink.
There are some folks who can write by the seat of their pants. They have the beginning and end kinda worked out in their4 years ago Read more -
Blog post“Okay, it’s time to write now.”
Ten minutes later… “I wonder what’s happening on Facebook…?” We’ve become quite busy in our lives with all the beeps and blips of modern life. We’re driven to get as much done as possible in the shortest amount of time. We squeeze as much as possible into each waking moment. Folks pride themselves on their ability to multitask. Gotta get things done. Right meow. Ya can’t walk and chew gum. And you shouldn’t text and drive.4 years ago Read more
Titles By Doug Langille
Dark Futures Annual 1
Aug 8, 2014
by
Roy C. Booth ,
Shaun Adams ,
Patrick W. Marsh ,
Matthew X. Gomez ,
Latashia Figueroa ,
Adam Gaylord ,
David Stegora
$2.99
This is the first annual collection of short fiction produced by Dark Futures. The stories included are:
His Plan by C.J. Jessop
Clone George Washington in the 24th Century by Roy C. Booth and Nicholas Johnson
Artemis' Nightrise by Doug Langille
Dry Lightning & Providence by Shaun Adams
Lighting Flashed by Adam Gaylord
Out For A Hunt by Latashia Figueroa
The Outpost Sentry by Paul D. Hayes
This Bitter Earth by Chris Daruns
The Walk Home by Megan Neumann
Isolation Run by Tom Howard
The Water Palace by Patrick W. Marsh
A Message To Deliver by Matthew X. Gomez
His Plan by C.J. Jessop
Clone George Washington in the 24th Century by Roy C. Booth and Nicholas Johnson
Artemis' Nightrise by Doug Langille
Dry Lightning & Providence by Shaun Adams
Lighting Flashed by Adam Gaylord
Out For A Hunt by Latashia Figueroa
The Outpost Sentry by Paul D. Hayes
This Bitter Earth by Chris Daruns
The Walk Home by Megan Neumann
Isolation Run by Tom Howard
The Water Palace by Patrick W. Marsh
A Message To Deliver by Matthew X. Gomez
Midnight Abyss
Oct 27, 2013
by
Doug Langille ,
Anisa A. Claire ,
Kelleigh Elizabeth Perry ,
Jennifer M. Zeiger ,
Raymond Tobaygo ,
Shaun Adams ,
Matthew X. Gomez ,
Theresa Briscoe Tschetter ,
Gregory K. Shipman ,
Travis Baribeau
$2.99
Horrifically Delightful !
Spooky tales by Anisa A. Claire • Shaun Adams • Theresa Briscoe Tschetter • Matthew X. Gomez • Doug Langille • Kelleigh Elizabeth Perry • Gregory K. Shipman • Raymond Tobaygo • Jennifer M. Zeiger
Step into the darkness of the Midnight Abyss, a collection of devilishly dark fantasy, hauntingly horrific short stories, and petrifying poetry that will keep you on the edge of your seat from dusk till dawn.
It's midnight in the abyss...
Do you know where your darklings are?
Spooky tales by Anisa A. Claire • Shaun Adams • Theresa Briscoe Tschetter • Matthew X. Gomez • Doug Langille • Kelleigh Elizabeth Perry • Gregory K. Shipman • Raymond Tobaygo • Jennifer M. Zeiger
Step into the darkness of the Midnight Abyss, a collection of devilishly dark fantasy, hauntingly horrific short stories, and petrifying poetry that will keep you on the edge of your seat from dusk till dawn.
It's midnight in the abyss...
Do you know where your darklings are?
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