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March 10, 2019
Why Did I Write Generation Mars This Way?
Earlier today I received an email from a visitor to this site, explaining he couldn’t review my Generation Mars series of books because he found the…
13 After Midnight, by Jaime Martinez Tolentino: #BookReview.
274 pages Fantasy? This book is promoted as a collection of stories in the fantasy mode. That collection is preceded by a wordy, lengthy, introduction dealing…
March 7, 2019
The #Write #Words? Post 1
A new series of posts about what words to use, and how. In this series, I’ll consider Onomatopoeia, Simile, and Collective Nouns. From time to time,…
March 6, 2019
How Do You Deal with Non-Creative #Stress?
As artists, craftspeople, creators, we all have interruptions to our creative lives from time to time. How do we deal with such intrusions? I’ve been battling…
March 4, 2019
Independence: Two Democracies: Revolution, by Alasdair Shaw: #BookReview.
Science Fiction 6,000 words This free short story is a taster for what is currently a four-book series. In that role, it works well, drawing the…
March 3, 2019
#Free #Ebooks from 3rd to 9th March
I’m taking part in the Smashwords Read an Ebook Week by discounting all my books on the site to make them free! The deal lasts from…
Creative #Writing #Contests Table Updated
The time has come round, and I’m a little late (been a little buried by events outside my control)! Still, here’s your monthly reminder that the…
March 1, 2019
The #Write #Word? Post 60 (Final)
This is the final post in this series, which has dealt with words as Synonyms, Antonyms, Contronyms, Adverbs, Clichés, Redundancies, Plain-Language Alternatives for Wordy Phrases, Untranslatable…
February 27, 2019
Unseasonal Weather: a #Poem
Unseasonal Weather But one month of the year complete and the next is almost done Where is the wet the chill the flakes of seasonal snow…
February 26, 2019
Halfway to the Stars, by Marcy Sheiner: #BookReview.
Fiction/Transgressional Fiction 97,610 words It appears I downloaded this book, through Smashwords, in 2014 and then completely forgot about it. I discovered it whilst tidying files…
