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November 23, 2024
Further Progress on the #WIP.
I last updated progress on 28th of October, so a little late with this one. Sorry. At that time, the first draft was up to 80,840 words and I’d started editing to include a new character and had got as far as chapter 14. The old word count was 33,454 and the new to that …
November 4, 2024
Rebirth. A Short Story.
This short story has a long history. It first appeared in the small print magazine ‘Ouse Valley Poetry’, unfortunately no longer around, where it was placed third in their monthly contest in January 2008. Following some slight editing, it was then published in the monthly print magazine ‘Writers’ Forum’, where it gained second prize in …
November 1, 2024
Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari: #BookReview.
Subtitled ‘A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, this weighty tome is actually surprisingly comprehensive. With 67 pages of Bibliography and an Index of 15 pages, the book is a veritable compendium of information, scholarly exploration, and informed opinion on the ways in which human societies have communicated over the …
October 28, 2024
More Progress on the #WIP.
I last updated progress on 8th of this month, when I reported that I’d experienced a strange epiphany not uncommon for pantsters. It meant I needed a new character, and that new person had to appear right at the beginning of the story. He also has an intimate connection to the original main protagonist, replacing …
October 26, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 26th October 24
This week’s #ScenicSaturday post is here, on Medium. That’s where all future posts in the series will be.
October 19, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 19th October 24
This feature is now exclusively posted on Medium. You can access it here.
October 18, 2024
I Am, Perhaps. Short Story:
It’s a few weeks since I last posted a short story here. I’ve been busy with other things. But I decided I’d continue the posts of previously published stories to give them a second chance of being read. Please feel free to comment, share and like as you will. This was published in the now …
October 12, 2024
#ScenicSaturday October 12th 2024.
This series of posts depicts our beautiful world, hopefully encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference. Please note the changes to this series, detailed below. Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean. This track passes through a plantation of mixed evergreens and …
October 8, 2024
A New Post on Medium
Oddities Observed On Outings #24 – no-cost link:
Further Progress on the #WIP, 8/10/24
I’m still working on the first edit of the initial draft I finished, at 84,141 words, on 14th May. On 7th September I let you know I was well into the first edit of the WIP, when the word count had reached 57,341. On 15th September I let you know I was up to chapter …
