For some reason, lately I’ve been watching a lot of Sherlock Holmes films, the ones starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. This stirred me to do a little research, as I’d bumped into these wartime renditions of the Great Detective before, but now, with my author head well and truly on, I was motivated to …
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Own Sweet Time
Thought I’d write something and catch up with you all! Thanks to all my long term adventurers and those new to the fold for sticking with it! Been up and down busy lately, with two projects now sitting in a lull, awaiting decisions. Got one off with an Editor – only because it’s a totally …
Method in Madness
I was reading this blog by Mr Barry Lillie and you should go and check it out. He knows his business and so do his guests. I’d come across the term before, but wasn’t sure exactly how Method Writing worked, beyond the idea it may be related to Method Acting, so I looked it up …
Hurtful Truth
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. – Samuel Johnson, collator of the first dictionary. I don’t know how true this is for other people, but it’s certainly true for me. It has been brought to my attention by a friend, (you know who you …
Return of the Hack
Well, not quite. The Children of the Glyph Manuscript has been returned with some developmental guidance. It’s good news. I need to tighten up a few things, but the benchmark is a lot higher now than it was this time last year. I just have to nail down structure a bit more and it’s DONE. …
Cardboard Cutouts
More Character rambles today folks as I’m in the mood. When I first worked on Rebellion of Mars (used to be called Librarian Chronicles) but I had to change it as that was the name for a sci-fi rom-com series, I had a protagonist called Sean Egan. He was dutiful, professional and cared for the …
Love Me, Love You.
Seeing it’s Valentine’s Day, let’s broach the subject of how I personally handle romance. Before we do that – let me tell you Dear Reader and Good Follower, you’re all very special to me! If you didn’t reach for a sick bag – well done you 🙂 That served two purposes – firstly, I was …
All the World’s a Grave
“Kill them all!” Ben Mason, Children of The Glyph. We’ll see how morbid this gets, but bear with me because we’re diving into Character Death. The function of this story trope is to be evocative, to punch through the hardy soul of you Reader, Dear Reader, after a long and bloody struggle (at least in …
In Character
I like my heroes to be legal and law-abiding, well, at least 75 percent of the time. My mother Herein is a bit of a ramble on Character. Next to plot, I think, Characters are the most whimsical, do-what-they-like parts of a book. They can be stroppy, uncooperative, bombastic and chewing the furniture at best. …
Cover Me.
This is Jek Porkins, a character from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. He’s important, as I will discuss later… I have absolutely no idea what I did or wrote before, but I got an avalanche of hits. Usually I pootle at around 10 – 12 if I’m very lucky. My last post smashed …
Mightier Is The Pen 