I am a subscriber in three writing magazines and when I am reading through I am forever seeing advertisements for writing conferences or retreats. It’s frustrating as I really like the look of these but for someone like me they are out of my reach. Most of them are down south, there don’t appear to…
I had so many plans for this years NaNo, you tube videos, blog posts etc, I should have known I wouldn’t have the time to do this, but I am optimistic each year. Well the image says it all, I was worried from the first day that I would fail again as I could never…
So it’s nearly 1 in the morning and I have a busy day ahead, I had planed an early night because of this but instead I got drew into reading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. I have read the book several times and it is by far one of my favourite series (Sword of…
This is it, tomorrow night I am off to see Star Trek – Into Darkness, from the trailers it looks amazing, but then I am biased as I love Star TRek. Going to see it with my best friend, who also likes Star Trek but doesn’t really like the direction the last film took, his…
The writing group that I started with a friend had its second meeting a few weeks ago. It was good to get together and talk about writing with like minded people. One of the ideas a member came up with was to set our own targets and then be held to them in the group,…
July 2011….. This is when I started this Blog, and from reading the first post I was proclaiming myself taking control of my procrastination and doing something with my life. If you were to scroll through the post chances are you would periodically see the same declaration, I would really like to know why committing…
This rant is brought to you from the Writing Magazine (August 14) the article was called Think of the Children. It covers an author called Loraine Mace and the books she wrote starring Vlad the Inhaler, this is a YA fantasy book with vampires in it. Seems she was subject to the age old fools…
Last night was the release of Transformers the Last Knight. Written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway and directed by Michael Bay. This film covers a war between Humans and Transformers, Optimus is gone and the key to saving the future is buried in the past. This outing sees the return of Mark Whalberg as…
“Anyone who procrastinates will find it difficult to get published. You have to work, every day, on improving your craft. Otherwise, you won’t improve” This quote was in Writing Magazine on October 19 by Vaseem Khan. It struck a chord with me as I am one of these people. I do the odd post on…
Getting near the end of my week off and we have come to Blackpool for 2 days. Set off at 07:00 this morning and got into Blackpool for just after 9:10, not a bad drive, we went a completely different way but as it was almost all motorway travel it was an easier drive, but…
