3 fantasy beasts of around 700 pages each plus a science book by the wonderful Brian Cox. Currently reading another fantasy book and Dawkins'...
Woo hoo, 3K mark passed! Not much I know, but I'm getting there.
Woop, woop. 30K is awesome for this time of the month! Are you trying to write a trilogy?? :p
Nononono, The Witches beats Free Willy every time. I'm having a heavy night of writing tonight. Hoping to get past the 3K mark ideally. Any...
Just remembered it's November so spent the last 20 mins "vomiting" 619 words onto the page. Excellent. I love Nanowrimo as an exercise in...
How do I keep my work safe? I make sure it wears armbands when we go swimming. It knows not to talk to strangers. I've taught it to look both...
I don't mean this glibly, but may I suggest that you read some of the short stories available on the web. There are dozens of excellent eJournals...
Falling 20,000ft from an aircraft with no parachute into a tractor-trailer full of hay, then dying of a fatal bout of hay-fever.
It has to be Steerpike from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. A wonderfully dark, complex character who embodies perhaps the best and worst...
To back up what's already been said, long descriptions and wotnot do need to benefit the story. Remember, the idea of a story is that the reader...
Alien will always be awesome. As will Terminator I & II. 'Nuff said.
I'd like to have the time. I do write every day, but most of it has to do with work and wotnot. Still, there have been many many many excellent...
Yes it is. Of your namesake Mr Steerpike. I love Peake's art as well as his fiction. One of my favourite pics is found in the Manchester art...
Just as there is a huge amount of contemporary vampire literature that the public will see little of. Dracula / Frankenstein etc are successful...
Blimey, who'd have thought a dig at Dave Cameron would sink so badly. Have I Got News For You is gonna struggle this year...
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