Rewatching Blake’s 7 – Part 2

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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).

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 […]

Halfway!!!!

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 […]

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 […]

Saturday is here again!

Saturday morning writing challenge. Target:2000 words. I’m back off to the wilds of Snowdonia. I left Paul Armstrong running from captivity, alone and with no idea where to go for help, with a search party hot on his trail.

X5 Concept Drawings

I promised some drawings of what I was thinking about in terms of as a look for the spacecraft which becomes the home of Paul Armstrong and the others as they go on their journey. You can see these drawings below. This is a rough idea, based around two rotating cylinders which create a gravity […]

Decisions

It’s Saturday morning again and time to write. I’ve got this competition entry to prepare so I don’t know whether to work on that and polish up Chapter 8 which I’m going to use as my entry OR I could add to what I’ve already got. As I said, I’m only 6000 words away from […]