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A Cold, Tea drinking and Parallel Worlds…
Illness. It’s that time of year again for illness. I am lying in bed as I write this and my head feels like it is full. Full to the brim with mucus and dullness. I have felt like this for about a week...
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Star Trek, Computers and Pulling out the Plug!
So…here is an idea. A science fiction idea? I will let you decide. It is a fact that the processing power of computers is growing exponentially. And there is nothing to make us suppose that this will...
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Art and how we imprint ourselves on the world…
Art and and creativity often leads to more art and creativity. This, I feel, isn’t always incestuous (although it can be) and can be produce some interesting results. Another week and another...
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Marx, Replicators and the Future of Communism
Karl Marx. There is a name that conjures strong opinion. And whatever your opinions are it is undoubted that his thinking has had a major effect on the world for the last 150 years or so. For good or...
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The Isle of Wight; an Island from the past?
Last week I was lucky enough to have a few days on the Isle of Wight with my mother and five year old daughter. For those of you not from around these parts, the Isle of Wight is that island that hugs...
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An End of Poppies: Music for #NaNoWriMo
I have not posted so much this month due to being immersed in NaNoWriMo (google it if you are unsure what this means) for the second year running. As it stands I am about five thousand words from...
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Am I a Novelist?
So…now I have completed the first draft of my third novel. Hmmm…yes…indeed. I did this through ‘NaNoWriMo’ (National Novel Writing Month) where you are challenged to write fifty thousand words in one...
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Isn’t it time America ditched the guns?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. This is what the second amendment of the United States...
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Snow Days: When Editing is actually Writing…
So. For the second day running, delightfully, I have a day off. I am a teacher so I am experiencing the joy that is the ‘Snow Day’. I know there will be many who are perhaps jealous and feel that us...
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Voyeurism, Self-Awareness and Sex beyond the Keyhole
Imagine, if you will, that you are in the corridor of an old fashioned plush hotel. The deep pile carpet feels warm nestled against your knees. You are breathing deeply but are unaware of this. The...
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Retrograde Amnesia: An Unfinished Short Story
So…here is an unfinished short story I have been working on. I have some ideas about where it is going, what it is about and what might happen, but I thought it might be fun to post it here and see...
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The Last Englishman: My First Novel – Available now…
So…I have finally done it. I have published my first novel; The Last Englishman and the Bubble – self published as an ebook – now available to download online. This book began its journey as my first...
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My problem with ‘Genre’…again…
So another year and another round of agent submissions. Pretty much at this same time last year I was sending out my first round of submission to literary agents for my first novel ’The Last Englishman...
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Paperbacks or Ebooks?
Paperback or Ebook? This seems to have been a debate for quite a while now. The question of whether an electronic book or a book made of real paper is best. Of course printing and print books have been...
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Writing a book is like climbing a mountain…
Two weeks ago I climbed a couple of mountains. Which is kind of a new experience for me – a man who lives in Norfolk, one of the flattest parts of the UK. The aforesaid mountains were in Wales;...
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The Goldfish and the Button; a story of the unexpected…
Once upon a time there was a fish out of water. Well, to be perfectly honest it wasn’t exactly a fish; more of a human being. But this particular human being had the same suffocating feeling that a...
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Herbert and the Wallpaper; a short story about decorating…
Once there was a house. An impossibly old house. From the outside one wouldn’t realise immediately exactly how old it was. It sat like a squat square cake at the end of the street. Two ordinary floors,...
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#NaNoWriMo: ‘The Whispering of Walls’– an extract…
It’s November and of course that means NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month – 50,000 words in thirty days), so I am busily typing away. At this point, one week in, I have hit over 17,000 words so I...
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#NaNoWriMo –‘The Whispering of Walls’ Extract 2
So, it’s week two of NaNoWriMo and at this point I am still ahead of the game with 28,418 words written. Although I have to say I have slowed down this week and found it altogether tougher. Anyway,...
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#NaNoWriMo –‘The Whispering of Walls’ Extract 3
Week three of NaNoWriMo and I am still just about on track, clocking 36,369 words as I write this. The story itself is becoming more complex and darker with every word I write. Anyway, here is the...
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