Each year the BFS holds a writing retreat at Gladstones Library and as it’s for a limited number you have to apply and then names are drawn out of a hat. I applied for last year’s retreat but did not manage to get a place. When I applied for this year I was so glad…
It’s that time again and although I had said I was going to plan for this I did my usual and didn’t plan the time to plan (see what I did there) and so when the 1st came around I was already deciding not to do it. I made up excuses to myself about looking…
Failed!!! Although to be fair I have been planning a new novel, I think the choosing to do this last minute was a bad idea, I need to make sure I need to have it planned out for the next one so I can get it done. The next one is in July so…
I have just finished watching the first two episodes of the spinoff from the Walking Dead. the original series although by no means the first post apocalyptic series to air, it seems to have taken off in a big way, hugely popular and one of the best series I have watched for a while. I…
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…
As long as I can remember I have written, although like all things I do it has been on and off and never with conviction. This was until a few years ago when I started to do so more and more. I spend more time planning and making notes than actual writing but still I…
I used to be one of the crowd, chanting about the expensiveness of Apple and how they were up themselves and how it isn’t worth the price…. I then got a couple of Apple devices, I still moan at the cost but when I use them I can see why they are the price they…
I have been “learning” Linux for some time now, but to get myself more familiar I have installed it on a Laptop I have and another pc. One of my file servers has also been installed with the command line only version, this is to force me to learn the commands and then to remember…
It’s Saturday night and for a change I’m not rushed off my feet doing uni work. This is the first weekend in a while where I have nothing planned. I have spent the day sorting pc’s and laptops feels strange to not have looming deadlines. I still have loads to do of course to get…
I don’t like it…. I am one of those people that when I write a text it is grammatically correct, this mystifies some of the people I know. Whereas when I see people typing in text it drives me crazy. I know people that write in full text speak and more often than not I…