Jess Mountifield's Blog, page 20

How to make the most of your writing time

Often in the early stages of a writing career, and sometimes even in later stages, there can be a lot of demands on your time. This often results in reduced writing time. When you’ve not got long to write you don’t want to be wasting it by not writing, so I thought I’d explain some [...]

A-Team: A Review

I’ve been reviewing rather a lot of Liam Neeson films lately so I thought I’d dig out some of his older films and re-watch those with the intention to review so here’s the film based on the 80′s TV series. This is one of those films where you expect a lot of explosions and stuff [...]

Character Spotlight: Wahanui Huatare

There are actually two characters with this name in my historical adventure novel, Chains of Freedom, so we’ll talk about both of them. They both belong to the same tribe in New Zealand which is where they get their surname. Huatare is the name of the tribe and would have been the second name of [...]

Fracture: A Review

I was given a copy of this book by the author, D. D. Chant to review. It’s the first book in the Chronicles of Discord series. I totally loved this book! There were a few tiny niggles so I will start with those and get them out the way. Firstly there was the same omnipresent [...]

Changes

I’ve been blogging for well over two years now and I’ve decided that I want to change things around a bit. Since the beginning I’ve been blogging once every three days and writing all sorts of blogs in a sort of revolving pattern. From now on I’m going to try blogging twice a week, on [...]

Unstoppable: A Review

I saw the trailor for this and noticed it had the actor who played Kirk in the rebooted Star Trek series and Denzel Washington and thought it might be worth watching. As you can see from the picture here this is all about stopping a runaway train. This was actually based on a true story, [...]

Location Spotlight: Catalpa

This is the name of Captain Alexander Hayes’ first ship and is loosely based on the ship, HMS Surprise in the series by Patrick O’Brian. This is the floor plan for the HMS Surprise as put together by the lovely people here which I studied about six years ago to help me get a feel [...]

The Promise: A Review

I was given a copy of this novel by the author in return for my honest opinion of it. It’s the first book in the Lady Quill Chronicles. Let me start by saying I love the olde worlde sort of setting so I was fairly sure I’d enjoy this book and enjoy it I did. [...]

Calling vs Career

This has been a pretty hot topic in my life recently and I’ve had a lot of people giving me advice on what to do in certain situations regarding writing over the last few months. After a while I realised that, whenever I got two opposing sets of recommendations for what to do and how [...]

A Good Day to Die Hard: A Review

I went to see this one at the cinema as part of this years massive run of films but forgot to review it until now. Yes that does actually say a lot about this film already. Unfortunately it was rather forgettable. Let’s face it, none of the die hard films have been amazing (except for [...]