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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What Time Is It?
Now I may wear a polo-neck and artistically recline on my Chaises-Longues, but this is not Marcel Proust and any kind of Research into Temps perdu. This is, instead, generally my reaction when I look up from the keyboard and realise that it’s gone dark outside and I have the evening chores to do, but …
Veni, Vidi, Verisimilitude..? (Part Two)
The Science of Today is the Technology of Tomorrow. Edward Teller Another way of saying this, is that life imitates art. If you’re an intellectual, occasionally you could get away with something like: “tail wagging the dog”. There’s a sliding scale for Sci-fi, I’ve seen everything from websites devoted to the voltage and frequency of …
Veni, Vidi, Verisimilitude…? (Part One)
I do not think that any Realism is beautiful H.P. Lovecraft What can I say, the man is right. What follows dear reader is a quasi-realistic, over-simplified page of about 1,000 words which I built for my book, Rebellion of Mars. I’m still deliberating on what I should call the series, as it began in …
Mightier Is The Pen 