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September 15, 2017
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #55
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the…
September 13, 2017
Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.
As work on this is mostly confined to the void that occupies most of my skull, I don’t have a lot to report today. Preparation, they…
Travelling Light, by Vickie Johnstone: #BookReview.
I exercise a degree of caution when reviewing poetry, since I’m by no means a competent practitioner. Therefore my judgment is necessarily both subjective and lacking…
September 9, 2017
Emanation: Shadeward Saga #1, by Drew Wagar: #BookReview.
Genre can be the bane of the author’s life: most publishers insist on slotting fiction into predefined pigeonholes. But some books defy this process,…
September 8, 2017
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #54
A series of posts for all word lovers, offering help for writers and language learners. This week’s words: Important; Congeries; Hopeful optimism; Heard it…
September 7, 2017
Review of ‘Blood Red Dust’ by Stuart Aken
Originally posted on Andrew Wallace:
The first of Stuart Aken’s ‘Generation Mars’ books takes three major contemporary social drivers – capitalism, religious fundamentalism and liberalism –…
The first of Stuart Aken’s ‘Generation Mars’ books takes three major contemporary social drivers – capitalism, religious fundamentalism and liberalism –…
Ways to write science fiction
Originally posted on Andrew Wallace:
This discussion between science fiction authors Drew Wagar and Stuart Aken at FantastiCon 2017 became a mini-masterclass in speculative writing, while…
This discussion between science fiction authors Drew Wagar and Stuart Aken at FantastiCon 2017 became a mini-masterclass in speculative writing, while…
September 6, 2017
Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.
War Over Dust launched at Fantasticon 2017 in Hull, England, over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd September. Fortunately, I was there to sign…
September 1, 2017
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #53
Help for writers and language learners. This series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Gabble, Left, Chiasmus, Genuinely,…
August 31, 2017
Creative #Writing #Contests Table Updated
For my photographs on Picfair, please click here. Here’s your monthly reminder that the writing contest table has been updated. I update frequently; in…
