Not long ago I read a blog post by Barry Milford where he took on an April challenge to write 1000 words a day for the month of April. I missed the chance then but decided I would try something similar in May, I am not going to write 1000 words a day, but… I…
So last night me and a friend went to see the new Star Wars Anthology film from Director Ron Howard and with main cast actors Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover and Paul Bettany. This new Science Fiction (or Fantasy if you lean that way) film is the latest in Disney’s plethora of…
A Bounty Hunter, caught infiltrating Alliance space. This was the test, sitting in the middle of the second fleet with dozens of cannons pointing at you and not shitting your pants and running, Garrix held his finger over the activation for the emergency wormhole generator, not something that you want to use unless absolutely necessary…
Well…. the last post on this blog was 6 months ago. It was my new year post and I had so many dreams. Admittedly the same dreams I have each year and each year I don’t really get too far into them. So far this year I have done little writing progress, read less than…
So the year has started, and again I am goign through what I have said I want to achieve and I came to a realisation. I am trying to do too much, and as a result, I don’t get much of anything done. So… I am going to step back from “planning” too much and…
As a writer one piece of advice we are always being given is to read more in the genre we want to write in, for me that is either Sci-fi or Fantasy. As one of my loves is reading this is something I do, even though I have my kindle, I still spend money in bookshops….
To assist in my 2015 goals (I nearly called them resolutions there) I decided to try a challenge, a Writer I was looking at a while ago was doing a story a week which I thought was amazing. Unfortunately that is an unrealistic goal for me, but I could do a story a month. So…
Where do you do your creative thinking? I have an office and this is where I should be doing my work but I made the mistake of filling my “man cave” with stuff! When I am in here supposed to be working I end up watching TV or browsing or playing games. Occasionally I do…
It’s the weekend again and a mate has been round so we have been watching a film, and Big Brother of course. Because of this I have been delayed doing my Blog post for the 2nd, but as I am still awake I am going to count this for the post so I haven’t missed…