I can be quite an opinionated person, for those of you that know me you are probably rolling your eyes now…. I was reading a news item in the November copy of Writing Magazine called Name Dropping. It was talking about Charles Dickens giving his characters strange last names and then talking about celebs calling…
The group Defense Distributed in Austin, Texas has printed a 3D gun and successfully fired it. It took them a year to develop and they have said that they plan to release the blueprints online. Sure to be a massive warning bell for the manufacturing industry as 3d printing becomes more and more consumer friendly….
Some sad news in the world of writing and magazines. It’s not like people found out from any kind of announcement, I hadn’t seen an official announcement on the internet. The latest issue came out and in the editor’s message he broke the news that this magazine was the last and the publisher had decided…
Well…. Over 3 months since the last update and given the last one was NaNo related I find it bizarre that this one is coming close to the end of October, which means Pumpkin carving time.. oh, and NaNo!! So i have been off work for a week and I have one more day (Sunday)…
So I have written my paragraph about why I want to write and I have filled out the questionnaire and all that is left is for me to do my observation piece. Normally this would not be a problem, only I am going to do it on a biker meet that I goto on a…
Warning spoilers may be ahead…. I went to see this film on Monday 27th Feb and watching the trailer beforehand I was expecting a shock horror type of film, I even thought from the trailers that there could be some alien overtones. I was wrong. The basic idea is a young executive is sent to…
Well… I am sure it’s a shock but I haven’t been doing too much writing in the last week, Although I have done more than I would have if it wasn’t nano. I have around 3 short stories at first draft. and a couple more that I am on with. So I have some progress….
I used to like watching the odd post apocalyptic series or movie, but now it seems they are everywhere. The walking dead the most visible i assume but others are all over. Last night I heard of a series called the last ship that follows survivors of the end of the human race that are…
It has been a long while coming but me and the wife are away in Blackpool for three days. We have been looking forward to this for a while. It’s getting colder but as long as it isn’t raining we should have a good time. It’s just nice to be away from the office (work…