Hello, I realise that my post last night was pure vanity. It worked though, so thanks. I’m now over 1000 hits on the website, and past 50 likes on my Facebook page, which at least tells me someone is reading. In fact, it looks as though people from all over are reading which is nice […]

Today I’m losing one of my most valued test audiences as they move on to secondary school. I just wanted to say that having you here to read what I’ve written has been incredibly valuable to me over the past year and a bit.  I started reading you the story because I hoped it might […]

Season 1 – Episode 9 Thanks everyone for reading the last two of these.  I know I usually do four episodes at a time, but have only got time for one tonight.  This one I’m writing as I watch so it might be a bit different. Episode 9 – Project Avalon We start off with […]

Season 1: Episodes 5-8 I must admit I watched episode 5, “The Web”, at the same time that I was writing my article about the previous four episodes.  As such, I didn’t pay much attention, except to the flaky Ewoks that were dancing around the screen.  My view as I was half watching was that […]

I realised the great power of fiction today in the library. I’ve invented characters and situations and interactions before, but I must say that I’ve never brought something like this into being. It’s an odd feeling, pride mixed with mischief, like I’ve done something outrageous. There are five exoplanets orbiting Tau Ceti in the constellation […]

Season 1 – Episodes 1-4 Blake’s 7 is a British Science Fiction show originally broadcast between 1978 and 1981.  I’m too young to remember it the first time around and although I know I saw some episodes, I wasn’t old enough to know what was going on.  I watched the whole series a few years […]

This is how it works for me.  It may be very different for everyone else.   I’ve never been published so I don’t speak from any position of authority.  All I know is that I always wanted to write a novel and now I’m over halfway to doing it.  From a position a while back when […]