I came home from Magnetic Island just in time for trimester 3 at uni and also to find how I’d been successful in my application to be a volunteer at the Independent Publishing Conference at the Wheeler Centre. It was fabulous fun. The first day was student day. If your application for ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
As is our wont we went on holidays a couple of weeks ago telling very few people. I expected to continue some online conversations while we were away, we’d checked and were confident we’d have phone/internet access using our mobile phones. How wrong we were. In our unit there were ...
I had lunch at Captain Melville’s the other day. It was a lovely lunch and today’s thoughts pay tribute to the staff there as I could eat several dishes with absolutely no changes being made. This doesn’t happen often and I enjoyed every mouthful. As I walked towards the building ...
Shirt off my back backpack You know those times when you’re in a different part of a shopping centre and you find the best shop? That was me and I was ecstatic. Part of me wanted to buy out the whole shop but the pragmatic part of me muttered words about ...
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Affair of the Gentle Saboteur – Brandon Keith This is one of those books where I feel the story I have to tell is better than the book. But it’s also one of those books from my childhood that I just had to have. The ...
It’s one of those really exciting days when I’m wondering what I’m going to talk about so I click on a link and it opens up a whole new world to me! Here’s the link Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author sued by publisher. I spent a bit of time thinking about ...
I wouldn’t normally put in anything about Amazon but their new warehouse in the UK is very sci fi and I ask myself which are the automaton’s: the humans or the robots? They’ve dumbed the job down so much anyone can do it, whether that’s good or bad is something I’m ...
The thing about doing a uni degree such as mine is that it gives you the chance to experiment with writing styles and to find where you’re most comfortable and where your skills really lie. They give you the chance to write in many different types and as of this ...
I’ve often wondered how you’d know if you were one of the Missing. You might think the project has petered off and will no longer be finished, I can understand how you might think that, I mean, with Terry Pratchett gone don’t all projects stop? He’s gone we no longer have a reason ...
If you’re a published author you’ll want to check out Blasty, it’s still in Beta format but as it’s trusted by Google it looks really promising. Basically, once you’ve signed up it works in the background as you can see in this article and notifies you if your book has potential ...
It’s so easy to get into a rough spot when writing and find yourself unable to continue. Authors who’ve published real live books or journals have found themselves there time and time again. Although some professional writers say they’ve had no problems. What do I do to help keep my ...
Trigger warnings Before I go any further. There’s violence in this film. Yes, a film review because I know so much about movies that I can review them…sarcasm mode completely kicked in…but onto the movie! I’ll lose the sarcasm mode while I scribble some words that could possibly be construed as praise. ...
We had a prompt for Writing Craft at Uni. We had to write 1,500 words on Memory as Seed. That means we had to take a memory and write a short story with that as the basis. It was going to be workshopped so we had to then take enough copies ...
Because I’m stretched for time (when am I not?) I’m not doing anything in particular today. I’ve got a presentation tomorrow for my Communication tute with my topic being the Future of Games, it’s taken up too much of my time as my memory has challenges. The research I did early on ...
I’m sure I’ve ranted about proofreading and how important it is and about my skills as a proofreader. Well, I had to laugh the other day as the irony of a particular email came through my computer. This young lady is currently 23 years old and trying to start a business ...