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…
To get the creative juices flowing again I am going to do another Blogging challenge. It is daft to have to do something like this just to get me Blogging every day, but I seem to keep to it when I am on a “challenge” I will try and make some of the subjects more…
I keep reading articles talking about the death of the printed book as the Ebook revolution continues. It always makes me smile. Given the calls when the DVD was released that CD’s were a dead format and the same calls when BluRay was standardised that the DVD was dead. yet both formats are being produced…
In a not so surprising move the US Government has sent a latter to Defence Distributed suggesting that publishing the plans was in violation of arms control regulations. I’m not sure what they think the point is, as up to now they have been downloaded over 100,000 times, and even though the company have took…
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…
Well, it is almost midnight on the 31st of October, and although I would normally have a good plan in place for NaNo by now, this year I don’t really have anything prepped. I had planned to pick up my Fantasy novel Rise of the Fallen and see if I could finish it, but given…
I know where I sit, I have tried for many years of NaNo Pantsing. this is where you just sit and type, see where the story takes you. Although I found that this was not for me. I would start well and generally I always know how a story is going to end, but I…
When I was looking at the year ahead in December I was, as usual, up for planning and making grand goals that I would achieve in this new year, new me, new life. Blah blah blah. my goal was: Writing 2 Weekly Blog 12 Short Stories Xmas Story NaNo April/Nov Shattered Worlds Novel Fitness Gym…
