Adrian Faulkner's Blog, page 151
June 27, 2012
Website Updates
For some reason I’ve overhauled the website. I’ve long wanted to expand my bibliography with details on some of the articles I wrote for Memorablia magazine a decade ago. Not so much to make the bibliography bigger but because I worked hard on that magazine during its lifespan and I’m proud of the articles I wrote.
Trouble was that I thought I’d lost all my copies. That was until I was packing up the old house a couple of months back and came across them buried away in a cupboard. I was over t...
June 23, 2012
My First Publishing Credit
When I was clearing out the old house I came across a lot of my old print publications that I thought I’d lost. I took them with me and, today, have spent the afternoon scanning covers and updating bibliographies. With some magazines I was actually quite surprised just how much I wrote, and whilst I doubt the effort of listing them all will give me any real benefit, it does give me piece of mind that I now have a complete list of my publication history.
One of the items amongst everything that...
June 20, 2012
The Rains of Castamere
I’ve currently got the music from the second series of Game of Thrones on repeat. The album came out this week and is the perfect accompaniment to one of my writing projects. There’s a lot of good tracks on the album (although if I’m honest I don’t think it is as a strong as the first season’s) but this one has to be my favourite, even though it has vocals. I find it strangely haunting. Word by George R R Martin, Music by Ramin Djawadi and sung by The National.
June 19, 2012
Thoughts On Games Writing
Games writing seems to be in the spotlight at the moment with complaints that it falls foul of sexism and genre tropes.
Let me say, at the outset, that I think people wanting a better quality of writing in their games is a good thing. Only by people questioning the current norms can the issues be highlighted and hopefully resolved.
However, I do want to say a little in the games industries defense. Games writing is still in its infancy. It took comics over 40 years to create Watchmen, yet it’s...
June 18, 2012
It’s Not About the (Geocaching) Numbers
It’s fair to say that this year has been a terrible caching year for me. It seems like there have been a long procession of issues which have stopped me caching.
We have a saying in geocaching circles: “it’s not about the numbers”. That’s mostly true, but for some it is about the numbers. Everyone finds their own challenge: for some it’s finding a well hidden cache, or one in an extreme location, or being able to walk a certain number of miles. And for some there’s no challenge at all, just a...
June 17, 2012
It’s All About The (Writing) Numbers
With the day job meaning I was on call and a bad back stopping me doing any really serious Geocaching, this weekend seemed to be a good weekend to make progress on two of my writing projects.
Project Llama is an unusual beast in that word count can be deceiving. Still in the absence of a better metric, I managed to do a good 5000 words on the project over the weekend. It’s becoming much larger than I originally envisaged, but it’s a lot of fun. I reckon I’m only a third of the way through alth...
June 14, 2012
Storm of Swords
I’d put off reading Storm of Swords. It’s a big book and I’m a slow reader. I’d also not enjoyed Clash of Kings. The circumstances regarding Renly annoyed me greatly, as if the tone of the worldbuilding suddenly shifted. It felt a forced book, one where the writer’s machinations were too clearly on show.
However, I greatly enjoyed the HBO show of Game of Thrones (as well as the book of the same some years prior). George R R Martin proved to be an excellent reader at Eastercon so I decided to g...
