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Getting the Story Going

‘Action!’ ‘What?’ ‘Action.’ ‘What are you talking about? This isn’t a film.’ ‘I know, but I thought….’ ‘Bloody hell.’ ‘What?’ ‘You’re not one of those writers who thinks are you?’ The protagonist peered out of the page. ‘This,’ he glanced around nervously, ‘isn’t going to be literary is it?’ ‘What? No, of course not. Literary?s

Wherever it Was

Kelly stopped. She looked around. There wasn’t anything to see. The page was blank from header to footer and from left margin to right margin. There was nothing on it. She stepped back a page. The story was still there. A busy Far Eastern thoroughfare, thronging with traffic, from cars to motor bikes and bicycles,s

The Elephant in the Room

Shellac Rentedrooms is probably the world’s most famous consulting detective. His faithful companion Doc Whatsup has recounted his numerous cases in publications all around the world. So, obviously when another great befuddling series of mysteries struck the British Isles, it was Rentedrooms that the British establishment  called upon when all else failed, and there wass

Words and What They Mean

Slowly the adverbs crept towards the unsuspecting paragraph. Its sentences were relaxed, at ease. They had fought off the last attack by the adverbs and their attempt to break up the solid paragraph’s defensive phalanx. A couple of sentences had been lost, but the paragraph’s words were experienced fighters in the editing wars. They hads

Turning it Off and Back On Again

It looked normal. Too normal. Clara didn’t like it. Things, she knew, shouldn’t be like that. When things looked this normal, something had to be wrong. She glanced around as she walked down the street. It looked like a normal Stourham Saturday morning. Which was odd. At least for a Tuesday. The man from thes

Then She Sang

  I knew her back then. Of course, everyone, these days, who wants some claim to hipness, they all like to claim they were there in the beginning before the fame, before it all went wrong. But I really was there, at the time. It was one of the cities near the edge of thes

Free Kindle Humour Novel: In the Beginning

In the Beginning FREE for the next Five days. Get it here (UK link), here (US link), or here (universal link) In the Beginning It’s a God’s life. Albert Meadows, recently made redundant and tired of his disappointing life, is looking to make a new start and is desperate to find something worthwhile to fills

The Modern Improved Cycle Race

Pedalo Velodrome is probably the world’s best-known cyclist. Not only has he won the Tour de France seventeen times, he is also one of the few cyclists to survive the far more punishing Tour of Tipton. It is well-known that those who do not cycle as fast as they can through some of the mores

Tune of the Week: Tony Joe White – I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby

Interesting Things 13/11/2017

A miscellany of links I found interesting recently: There are quite a few this week too, possibly because I’ve decided to change the day I put this out, which will also change for next week, I think. Again, it is dominated by the stuff in the week’s news cycle. A podcast interview on the futures