Allow me to raise you Æthelred the Unready - a nickname that works on two levels, both in modern English and in the Anglo-Saxon tongue of...
Time for Dan Jones and Essex Dogs. Described as the Hundred Years' War as directed by Oliver Stone. I'm looking forward to some historical fiction...
You see, my preference is for the older games. Don't get me wrong, I loved the first game in the Final Fantasy VII Remake series, but it just...
I may be 20-odd years behind the times (which is about my average), but I've just been making real in-roads to Knights of the Old Republic at very...
Wagner into Vivaldi. Marvellous. I always associate Wagner with a cold November night in 2016. We walked out to Ride of the Valkyries for the...
I'll second Behind the Name. It's on my bookmarks for just that reason. Names I write with tend to be meaningful somehow, even if it's a vague...
I don't claim to in any way be an expert on police procedure in SA. Ask me the same about England and Wales, and I can pontificate on the subject...
I've always enjoyed the EU. And Luceno has always been one of the stronger writers in it. I've also really enjoyed Matt Stover's works. The guy...
That does sound interesting. Always worth looking at the underpinnings of the writing craft rather than just the surface, and I may have a gander...
Is there any need? Like, any? If the bloke had done something worthy of a hit job, such as covered up a major international fraud, was the...
When I write, no. 5,000 words in a day is possible and has been done many a time. Getting opportunities to write? Now that's the challenge. I'm...
I love my job, I really do, but this last few weeks have taken the proverbial. No stable base, moving around every lesson, no secure bubbles were...
I have been asked to write an article and act as an associate editor for an online archive. It's nice when your non-fiction work gets noticed and...
I think it's time to reintroduce myself. I was a regular a fair few years back, ended up on the staff for about a year, then life got in the way....
Seconded. This is a good use of a prologue, and advice I'd follow. Think about how other writers have approached this problem: GRRM is a good...
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