So it's that time of the year again, and once I've finished scaring the bejesus out of the local kids (I'm on a strict warning to tone things down, after 'the-night-no-one-came because 'what the hell was that you put in your window?-incident-of-2016....') and doling out enough sweets to push Cadbury's shares up by another 2%,... Continue Reading →
A short one today because there's a whole lot going on and coming up... But given we're now at October 13th, I thought it might be time for the Halloween countdown to begin. (You know, reverse the numbers...or something?) Over the next couple of weeks I'll be posting up some Halloween stuff: movies, novels, shorts,... Continue Reading →
This list of a hundred resources is, as I've previously written, going to be a mixed bag of stuff. Many websites will tell you the classic writing manuals you should have in your possession, and there's a fair chance a few of them will appear in this list at some point. But as I get... Continue Reading →
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) The tag line in the poster above sums up as much as you should know about this documentary: On Nov 5 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered. To memorialize him, his friend Karl began making a documentary film. Then the killer revealed she... Continue Reading →
Today while clearing up my writing space I came across my old Macbook, last used approximately four years ago...(my son loved the Mac, I've never really got on with them myself but did use it occasionally for movie editing and sometimes a bit of writing...) Anyway, I found some interesting things on there (if interesting... Continue Reading →
There's a lot of writers out there who have never written a novel, a play, a poem, a screenplay...but they certainly write a lot online - and there's more and more places to do it. So here's a few reviews of movies via popular review sites...guess the film: and if you can't drop me a... Continue Reading →
