Nearly there
Need one more hit to get to 1000 on my website. Who’s going to click and get me there?
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Farewell to Panthers
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 […]
Read more "Farewell to Panthers"Rewatching Blake’s 7 – Part 3
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 […]
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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 […]
Read more "Rewatching Blake’s 7 – Part 2"Today I invented a planet. I’m celebrating.
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 […]
Read more "Today I invented a planet. I’m celebrating."Rewatching Blake’s 7
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 […]
Read more "Rewatching Blake’s 7"Saturday target
Saturday morning is here again. Target: 2000 words. This may be a bit more tricky than usual as we’re about to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and I’m going to have to read up a bit about what that’s like (as unfortunately I’ve not experienced it).
Read more "Saturday target"Writing a Story – tips from a non-expert
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 […]
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Hi everyone. Quick update. This morning, on the train to Vauxhall with my laptop crushed against my waist, I reached the milestone of 50,000 words which I equate to being halfway through The Crossing. I can’t disguise my joy at having got this far with the project. There is so much left to do, but […]
Read more "Halfway!!!!"Comparing Universes
OK, so this is going to be incredibly geeky, and I’m going to voice some opinions so I expect to alienate some people with this one, but I have been thinking about writing this piece for a while now so sooner or later it was going to happen anyway. People always assume I’m this massive Star […]
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