I was fixing up a magazine on my website, a nice little part-work magazine just making sure it had enough information for some lovely person to buy and noticed what I was typing. Transplant a heart and it will die unless its tissues match those of its new owner. Volunteers, ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Last night I came across this article which had me intrigued. It talks about writing professors being partial to literature and against science fiction. The comments are even more interesting as some of them show not all professors are against science fiction. And this morning I was directed to this ...
Balance of Power is one of the Tom Clancy’s Op-Centre series. The description on the back is as follows: Spain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in a thousand years. Certain well-place Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Centre’s intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain ...
I was reading some random stuff in my history, something the kids had been reading, and it got me thinking. The author was talking about his writing and how he’d written a story based on the scenario of “you wake up next to ‘x’ what do you do?” and it ...
I might be lying there, it may not be ten, but it looks good as a header. I’ve been really struggling to find inspiration on writing matter this week, today is the worst day. I have thoughts for Tuesday as it’s Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday, then Squid Ink does Thursday ...
When printing really got going anyone could be published and it wasn’t called vanity publishing, actually, not anyone but almost anyone. Then as the decades went by publishing houses developed and more decades went by until publishing houses were becoming more and more picky about the books they published. At ...
Boxing Day is generally a day for people to kick back and relax after the hecticness that precedes Christmas and the madness that is Christmas. It’s a time for the body to process the food it’s eaten and a time to look at the presents and think of the family ...
I have this love/hate relationship with Amazon. The hate part is mostly by heresay, I have nothing to substantiate the information I’ve been given but it deals with the amount of money the publisher and author receive from the sale of new books. I’ve heard it’s not terribly much and ...
So, I’m still in New Zealand and this is the first post I’ve written from here, up till now everything you’ve been reading from me has been pre-written and scheduled, I do intend to change that from today and go back to my regular Monday to Friday publishing schedule. It’s ...
The boy looked familiar, I couldn’t quite place him, we see so many people in the store some of the faces blur. I do my best but if they only come in once it’s hard to remember them. He was at the table checking tickets and I had plenty of ...
It’s been an interesting exercise. Out of the whole book I chose to do almost a monologue with the lady behind the counter in the check incident. It seemed to embody all of the lying and stealing by Wolff in the book while giving him different role models. I had ...
He was just wandering back and forth in front of the store, looking so normal I may not have remembered him if it hadn’t been for the horn-rimmed glasses he was wearing. They look uncomfortable on him as if he wasn’t really used to wearing them. There was nothing to ...
The task was to write a creative response to Tobias Wolff This Boy’s life and then write a Reflective Commentary. It was suggested we write 800-1,200 words for our prose response and approximately 200-300 words for the Reflective Commentary. We discussed this in class and did a lot of research at ...
Typing on an iPad is a very different experience. I learnt to touch type on a manual typewriter, my teacher was of the old school and she expected us to know where all the keys were without looking down on the keyboard. Thanks to her I can now take notes ...
I came across this rather strange acronym looking rather like NaNoWriMo this week, it was imperative I look it up. They are both interesting words, NaNoWriMo means National November Writing Month while NaBloPoMo is the same but to do with writing blog posts. NaNoWriMo is all about stretching yourself as ...