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Zombies! With a little Pride and a little Prejudice. #MonsterMondays 39

I have a film rec for you today, because I have finally seen Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and it is glorious :).

Zombies! With a little Pride and a little Prejudice.
Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Rating: 15
Cast:
Lily James ... Elizabeth Bennet
Sam Riley ... Colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy
Bella Heathcote ... Jane Bennet
Ellie Bamber ... Lydia Bennet
Millie Brady ... Mary Bennet
Suki Waterhouse ... Kitty Bennet
Douglas Booth ... Mr. Bingley
Sally Phillips ... Mrs. Bennet
Charles Dance ... Mr. Bennet...

The 5 Stages of Writing #ThinkyThursdays 14

Hello, and welcome to my blog today. So I am just coming up to finishing the first draft of my new novel, so all I seem to be thinking about at the moment is writing. Hence my choice for Thinky Thursdays 14:

The 5 Stages of Writing
We all know there are five stages of grief, but there are five stages of writing too - I kid you not. Well, at least according to me there are ;). This is how I see them.

1) Oh hell, what am I going to write now?
This is what I mentally refer to as the "brain freeze" m...

Flash Fiction: Mightier by Natasha Duncan-Drake #WriterlyWednesdays 31

Welcome to my blog for Writerly Wednesdays 31. This week I have a piece of flash fiction for you, which I hope you will enjoy. It's on the dark fantasy side. Many thanks for visiting.

Mightierby Natasha Duncan-Drake
They say the pen is mightier than the sword. In my case I am absolutely sure of it.

I inherited this particular pen from my grandmother.

To look at it's nothing special. It is made of black ebonite with gold metal work, some of which is showing its age. This is a pen which has been us...

10 Free Software Packages I Cannot Live Without - #TipsTuesdays 31

There are some pieces of software that run on my computer on a daily basis that are not simply the obvious ones like Word and Photoshop and McAffe. I find them very useful, so I thought I would share.. What's even better is all of them are FREE :).

10 Free Software Packages I Cannot Live WithoutSome of these I use solely for work, some solely for pleasure, but nearly all of them are all started up almost every day.

Calibre - eBook Management SoftwareCalibre not only manages all your ebooks for...

Why the Unseen Monster is Often Scarier than the Seen One - #MonsterMondays 38

Good morning/afternoon/evening and welcome to my blog for another Monster Monday. Today I have a thought rather than a specific monster to talk about. I very much hope you enjoy the post.
Why the Unseen Monster is Often Scarier than the Seen OneHave you, like me, ever sat through a horror movie being really scared until, that it, the monster actually appears on screen? Up it pops with dripping fangs and snarls and all sorts of other effects the director decided to throw at it, but the whole pa...

Review: Wicked Little Things - A Satisfying Horror #FanFriday 20

Review: Wicked Little Things
A Satisfying Horror
I mentioned this film yesterday over on my Livejournal, but I enjoyed it so much I decided it was worth a full review, not just a recommendation. Now I usually start with the poster for the film when I do a review, but since the poster appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with the movie, I won't today :).

Title: Wicked Little Things (2006)
Cast:
Lori Heuring ... Karen
Scout Taylor-Compton ... Sarah
Chloë Grace Moretz ... Emma
Ben Cross ... Aar...

Guest Interview - Author Jay Mountney #WriterlyWednesdays 30

Please join me today in welcoming the lovely Jay Mountney to my blog. She had kindly agreed to give an interview for Writerly Wednesdays this week.

Jay Mountney - AuthorInterview
Can you tell us a little about yourself?
I started writing as a small child and 'wrote' a play (scribed by my mother) which the Brownies performed for the village when I was five. I can remember very little about it other than that it was a fairy story, which I suppose means it was my first foray into fantasy. After tha...

How To Storyboard Using Excel #TipsTuesdays 30

Welcome to my blog on this rainy Tuesday (I hope it is nice and sunny where you are :)). I've been talking about Word a lot recently, and today I'm moving my focus to Excel. If you have Word then the likelihood is that you have Excel too, or the equivalent with Open Office.

How to Storyboard Using Excel
Now I know a lot of us use Scrivener which had it's own storyboarding tool, but this is for those of use who don't have a program with that facility. yWriter, which is what I use, does have a st...

Back to the 80s - Ghoulies! #MonsterMondays 37

Hello and welcome to my blog, I'm sorry my post is late today, but it's a bank holiday here in the UK and so we had something of a lie in this morning. I hope you are all well.

Back to the 80s - Ghoulies!
Back in the 80s there was no CGI, but there were still some great monsters. Some of my favourites from the time is Ghoulies. The monsters are all people dressed up or models and they have their own charm.

Jonathan from The GhouliFor those who have never seen Ghoulies, the plot is a simple one:...

Highlander - the Fandom that Dragged Me Online #FanFridays 19

Greetings and welcome to my blog for another Fan Friday. Today I have chosen a fandom which started  my whole online life and which still holds a special place in my heart.

Highlander - the Fandom that Dragged Me OnlineNow Highlander actually started way back in 1986 with the original film and the original Highlander:

Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod (I saw this movie on VHS and let's just say it made an impression. I love the movie, I love the music and I really, real...