Where do you do your creative thinking? I have an office and this is where I should be doing my work but I made the mistake of filling my “man cave” with stuff! When I am in here supposed to be working I end up watching TV or browsing or playing games. Occasionally I do…
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…
I nearly forgot, I need to get these planned and done in time so I am proving some good content. I have the Cineworld card and so I go to the cinema allot, I see most of the films that are released, all of the main ones that come out. I need to get some…
I have been thinking for a while as do most writers what constitutes a writer, when would I consider myself to be a writer. When is it a hobby as opposed to a calling etc… Imposter Syndrome is a big thing for writers, how many times have I been asked what I do outside of…
That time of year has finished again. Our favorite holiday in this house. Our kids have grown up and had kids of their own but this doesn’t stop us from celebrating Christmas like we always have. For the last few months (or so) we have been watching Christmas movies. Decorations were up in November before…
I have joined a few writing groups over the years and they all end up where no one talks for weeks on end and nothing seems to happen. So, this year I started a writing group with a fellow writer from one of the other groups. Called Northern Writers, I didn’t want to have something…
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…
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…
I have done it again. Less than a day from my sweeping statement and instead of doing a load of writing planning I was going to do today I have been playing games for the most of the day. Sometimes I wish I could slap myself in the face, although I had a fun day…
I think something like this can be categorised as a “guilty pleasure” I loved the first couple of seasons then didn’t watch it for a long time, I since came back in the last few years and its like a procrastination drug, it takes up so much time between the main show and the bit…
