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Progress on my serial
Friday will be the tenth week that I will be hitting ‘Publish’ on my web serial, Tales from Vertigo City. In honour of that, I thought I might write a blog entry about the serial, to hopefully explain more about it. The idea behind the serial was to write a series of tales, all set […]
House Plants
I never thought of myself as having green fingers, but after working in an office festooned with pot plants and ferns, I came around the the idea of trying to grow something myself. Basil, rosemary, a grape hyacinth and African violets all lasted a while, but not really knowing what I was doing came to […]
Fiction Friday #7
Here’s my attempt for this week’s Fiction Friday challenge on the Write Anything blog, also submitted to the Friday Flash collection. The prompt was; While digging in a cereal box for the toy surprise, a child makes a grisly discovery. “Must you go rooting through the box like that, Tim?” Annie pursed her lips as her son plunged his arm deeper […]
How to use smell when writing scenes
I found a rather useful entry about composing scenes on the Write It Sideways blog, and it got me thinking. Scenes are incredibly important to fiction, as they tell us about location and setting, introduce us to characters, and move the plot along. Think about cinema – everyone can always think of favourite scenes. One […]
The Cinema of Spectacle – Or Pure Escapism
I went to see Clash of the Titans on Saturday night, and I’m pleased to tell you that I actually really enjoyed it. Sure, it’s hardly Hamlet in terms of dialogue, and Sam Worthington proves yet again that his acting talents don’t stretch far beyond “thug with a heart” (but he’s so watchable, I’ll forgive […]