Jess Mountifield's Blog, page 44

Captain America: A Review

I went to see this film at the cinema in 3d just after it came out. I don't read the Marvel comics so I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. I knew Captain America was the first Avenger and that this film was the lead up to the Avengers film next year. I also knew [...]

Making a language from scratch

If you've looked at some of the other pages here on my blog you may have noticed near the bottom of the other page, it talks about me writing my own language. That language is currently called Nafairu and is based loosely on Russian, German and a few other languages here and there for good [...]

The Plan: October 11

Last Month I only worked about half of September but the half I did work was extremely productive. Here's the bullet point list. Typed approx 15k (including emails and blogs) Spent about 30 hours reading Spent about 5 hours working for Flight Spent about 10 hours working for Red Feather Writing Spent about 5 hours [...]

Author Interview: Kimberly Menozzi

Kimberly Menozzi kindly agreed to do my interview for today. Tell us about your latest project. Well, the US edition of my debut novel, Ask Me if I'm Happy was released in June this year, along with the novella prequel, Alternate Rialto. Ask Me if I'm Happy is a love story, set in Bologna, Italy, [...]

With Proud Humility: Print Book Cover + Giveaway Result

I've finally got my print version of With Proud Humility ready to print and have ordered my proof. Since people have been waiting so long I thought I would share my very shiny new cover for the book. As people might remember from a few months ago I gathered every item seen in this cover [...]

Karate Kid: A Review

I held out from seeing the newer version of Karate Kid for quite some time. I loved the old version and often rewatched it when it was shown on tv. The new one, like the old one, is about a young boy who has to move from his home to a new place because of [...]

Blogs and Blogging

I spend a lot of my time when on the computer reading other peoples blogs. I'm often distracted by a tweet or facebook message from a friend saying a certain blog post should be checked out. Sometimes they are the usual bullet list on how to improve something or other but occasionally there is a [...]

Sherdan's Prophecy

As luck would have it our constant source of news on Anya and Sherdan has managed to find a small part of the prophecy they've been talking about over the last few months. An excerpt of the prophecy is posted below, unfortunately we could not obtain all of it, only some… When the lion with [...]

Sense and Sensibility: A Review

Having now read the book and watched the film from 1995 I am going to review both. The Book As always Jane Austen manages to make many witty insightful remarks about English society and it's one of the romances I find most tense of hers. It really does seem about two thirds of the way [...]

The Plan: September 11

Last month I really didn't get much done last month, unfortunately I got sick right before my holiday so I stopped work sooner but I made progress on a few things. I won't bother with my usual bullet point list because I probably can't remember what I did even if it was worth making a [...]