I’ve been thinking about how I’ve grown as a writer, and not just that, but as a reader, or viewer of films (after all films are just a book with pictures – I’ve just graduated from Spot Has a Ball, but I digress). It has really affected how I perceive storytelling, and to a degree …
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Perspective Matters
Happy New Year everyone 🙂 Beware: Rambling wall of text incoming! My Vampire action novel, The Covenant is kicking my backside. The reason for this is that it’s old, so I’m overhauling it and have pared it back from 60,000 words to about 20,000 so far. Unfortunately, because I am a witless hack, I wrote …
Re-Search
“Research is creating new knowledge.” Neil Armstrong The great thing about Science Fiction is the ability to do what you want with limited research – depending on how ‘hard’ you want that SF to be. A lot of the need for this stems from innovative ways first popularised by Star Trek, Specifically The Next Generation, …