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Getting Published

This is the follow-up to my article Writing's Brilliant. The title of my last piece wasn't devilishly clever or witty like this one, and that was the intention. Writing is simply fun, and if you write for the pure enjoyment of creativity, you will find it a fulfilling venture. I also alluded to the business [...:]

Win a Sony E-Book Reader!

Winning stuff is bloody fantastic.
I'll tell you something else which is bloody fantastic, and that's The Great Right Hope. Yeah, OK, so I wrote it, and I'm biased, but there really is no other book like it. It's about a drunk Northerner who punches vampires in the face. How good is that?
If you haven't read [...:]

Writing’s Brilliant

Writing’s brilliant. I mean that with every ounce of sincerity that I can muster. I love it. I love creating things, and with a notepad and a pen, I can do just that. I can create anything. I can be anything. … Continue reading →

Writing's Brilliant

Writing's brilliant. I mean that with every ounce of sincerity that I can muster. I love it. I love creating things, and with a notepad and a pen, I can do just that. I can create anything. I can be anything.
How powerful is that?  To really enjoy writing, you need to be the characters. You have [...:]

Lookalikee! David Schwimmer and ALF

Got a great lookalike sent in by my old housemate, Dredge: The lovable rascal alien, ALF, and Friends star, David Schwimmer.  The likeness is uncanny.

Dredge points out that the most notable difference is that ALF likes pussy.
 
If you have any look-a-likees, that you can see, and no-one else can, or just any that will get [...:]

STEVE RYAN! LEGEND OF AIR ROCK! (nb: not Ayers Rock)

A while back, I interviewed a top lad, Steve Weinberger, author of the hilarious book, No Air Guitars Allowed (to recap your memory, here's the interview link). A little while later, I got a message on Twitter from a guy from New York City, not that I knew this, as I didn't have a clue [...:]

Look-a-likees! Robbie Williams and …The Crazy Frog

After pointing out the now glaringly obvious similarity between TV Supernanny, Jo Frost, and porn sensation, Ron Jeremy (blogpost), a few of you sent me other unlikely look-a-likees (tonguetwister, that), and I thought, why not use this blog as a place to share this important and often hilarious knowledge.
If you have any look-a-likees, that you can see, [...:]

The Next Action Hero (the decline of the lad's mag)

 I wrote this short story after discovering that Men's Health had overtaken FHM, in terms of sales. Thinking of sending it off to Men's Health, actually. Worth a shot.  They'll probably conclude that I'm a little bit weird. Anyway, enjoy.
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It's Sunday, therefore, I'm hungover. I have to make it through the day for no other reason, [...:]

Nick Tate Has Entered The Building

As you well know, I'm the lead singer in the band, Five Inches of Steel. Admittedly, we don't write our own music; we certainly don't play our own music; we don't sing live; we look crap without make-up; but we do write our own lyrics, which means we ain't doing too bad when compared to [...:]

Soldiers Base Jump for the Poppy

I'm not a crazy guy. "What do you mean, you're not crazy, Jacko?" you cry. Yeah, it's surprising. After all, I studied science at university; I spend my evenings in front of a computer, writing fictional tales about vampires and benefit-fraud; and I was Great Yarmouth's finest table tennis player, U15 category, in the year [...:]