Nearly new year…..

It’s that time of year again and it’s time to start thinking of goals that I want to achieve in 2015. I loath to use the term resolutions but in effect even though I am calling them goals it is the same thing. So here is the basic list (in no particular order) of what…

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So called Justice in the UK

I was reading the Sun paper and again wanted to vent at the absolute ridiculousness of this country….. The Article is entitles “Victory for Evil” European judges have decreed that our courts cannot give actual life sentences to murderers. The Grand Chamber of the European court of Human rights has backed the complaints of three…

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5th June 2017 – Big Brother

One of my summer procrastination TV shows starts today, something that I would normally class as a guilty pleasure. Some people hate it, some love it. I have been in both camps. 1st Season was amazing, but then it was new back then. I watched for the first few years then had a long break….

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Random thought for a Friday

You know I miss going to a video shop, looking for something good then coming home to watch it. Just not the same sitting down and looking for ages at what’s on all of the 500 streaming services. Takes me back to when the kids were little and on a Friday night we would pop…

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The drawn-out dream

I was reading a writing article which talked about not ending your book with a cliché. The article then went on to list some of them. One of them struck a cord with me, this was the drawn out dream, meaning at the end of the book your protagonist wakes up and finds out the…

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Accountability

Nanowrimo season rapidly approaches, as well as planning for this to ensure I have a good outline to complete a novel this year I am working on a small short story project for Christmas. Something I have also been meaning to get done for many years. To try and help with the planning phases for…

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NaNo update 1

Less than two months, the emails have started from NaNo and the regional group I am in has started trying to get some venues for write ins sorted. I am planning now that I have picked a story idea, although I am constantly itching to go back to a SciFi story. But I really want…

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February update

I have started moving in the right direction. But, not as fast as I expected. Not just because of laziness this time though. My mother in law was in the hospital for a few weeks and then the daughter was having a baby, they have been with us for a couple of weeks so this…

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