Apologies for the lapse in blogging, dear friends – real life had that annoying habit of getting in the way. Weddings, interviews – that sort of thing. Anyway. I’ve just been looking back through my notebook and discovered I actually have some reasonably decent work squirrelled away in there, so I must prompt myself to […]
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We’re on The Road to nowhere…
Let me get this out of the way before I get to the meatiest part of my post. The Road is a very beautifully-shot, gorgeous film, and I can’t fault its cinematography. However, it feels to me like it’s related to one of those vapid bimbos that you come across from time to time – […]
Another piece published!
t is with great delight that I use this post to publicise the fact that I have another piece of fiction online! You can find it at The Tomlit Quarterly, in issue two. It’s available as a free PDF, which means not only do you get my short piece, Cold, you also get tons of […]
To CGI, or not CGI…don’t make the Phantom Menace mistake
Celebrated sci-fi author China Mieville has written this post for The Wall Street Journal to explain just why CGI is rotting sci fi cinema from the inside. For the most part, I’m only too happy to agree with him. If you ever read my post about Pixar, you’ll know that I like CGI only if […]
Silver Blade – A Spot of Promotion
There are an awful lot of online magazines and anthologies out there in the cobwebby recesses of the Internet, and I thought I would take this opportunity to briefly swing my torch and shine its light onto one of my favourites, Silver Blade. Yes, it’s true, I am slightly biased towards them as they’ve published […]
Creativity game
There seem to be posts on creativity all over the blogosphere at the moment, two of the best being Melissa Donovan’s post over at Writing Forward and Mary Jaksch’s post at Write to Done. I remember one person saying that you couldn’t describe yourself as ‘creative’ unless you did anything deemed to be such, since […]
