28th April – Holiday
I’m sat in the sheepskin-lined depths of a leather-backed chair, afternoon sun warming my right arm and casting a slightly annoying glare on the laptop screen, somewhat ruining the poetic image I had going. A bird is tweeting in the…
Inspirational Images – Captain Gerard Matrice
So, my girlfriend suggested an idea for a series of regular posts on this here website. I’m quite a visual person (despite having literally zero talent in any of the visual arts. Seriously – my stick men are out of…
Inspirational Images – Chapter Review
So, my girlfriend suggested an idea for a series of regular posts on this here website: I’m quite a visual person (despite having literally zero talent in any of the visual arts. Seriously – my stick men are out of…
First draft blues
In the words of the mighty, oft-quoted Chuck Wendig: Trouble is, I find it difficult to let shitty words lie. This is a scenario surely experienced by many (I’ll dare to say most) writers: You sit down to write, and…
Pit stop
Just a quick one today; you’ll have to find your internet-based amusements elsewhere, I’m afraid. For myself and the missus, today is about getting things back into shape. We’re chucking out the tree and setting the living room to rights…
Das resolutions
So, the year is over. The last three months have fairly flown by; something about this autumn term of the 2012/2013 academic year has made it whizz by with barely a backwards glance. So, as with the rest of the…
The Beginning of All Things
So, things have settled down a bit here, both at work and at home. As such, I’ve now entered that phase of my writerly cycle I call ‘The Self-Flagellation Stage’. It’s pretty simple; after the times when my writerly output…
Asking the right questions
So, the Chuck Wendig has released another nugget of writerly knowledge and advice out into the world. Go on, go read, I’ll wait. *As an aside, if you aren’t already following the Mighty Wendingo on Twitter and, more importantly, his…
“Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.”
This will, at some point, be appearing over at The Bloghole. But I thought that I would put it up here in the meantime. Enjoy: So, I’ve just finished reading Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s Helsreach. I knew, from about the first fifty…
In the Interim
My apologies for the silence of late. As you may know, a new crop of bright-eyed students began entering their establishments over the weekend. My job, for those who don’t know, is the adminstrator for an undergraduate programme at a…