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Philip Tolhurst

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I never wanted to be a writer, not at a young age anyway. My imagination was too busy being used for other things.

You see I grew up with the release of films like Starwars and Tron. I played Dungeons and Dragons. The home computer became wide spread. My favourite books were the Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. I read White Dwarf magazine in the days when it covered more than just Games workshop products.

All this formed my great love of Fantasy and Science Fiction. But it took a long time before I decided I had a story in me that could really make a great book.

George and the Dragon is that book. Now I've written and published one book I realise there are so many stories for me to tell.
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Philip Tolhurst Creating worlds where reality and fantasy overlap. So that what's accepted as the normal is challenged.

Who knows maybe chameleon dragons do exist you…more
Creating worlds where reality and fantasy overlap. So that what's accepted as the normal is challenged.

Who knows maybe chameleon dragons do exist you just can't see them :)(less)
Philip Tolhurst The best advice I can give is probably the simplest and that's finish your first draft.

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The best advice I can give is probably the simplest and that's finish your first draft.

As the advice goes it doesn't have to be good it just has to be written.

Once you have a first draft you can start to mold it into something better often with the help of others. (less)
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Tuesday mornings are not necessarily the best day of the week for me. So to find I'd manage to write 1085 on the train this morning was quite a pleasant surprise.



I know I'm capable of writing 1000 word in the time it takes Southeastern to get me from Gillingham to Cannon Street (the length of the journey varies, sometimes by quite a lot but never seems to be that which is published on the time tab Read more of this blog post »
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Published on February 02, 2016 03:18

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Mariℓina Happy 2016, filled with love, happiness and a little bit of luck!





Promod Sharma Thanks for connecting. To introduce myself I give below the link to my one of the recent blogs on wordpress.com;
https://promodkumarsharma.wordpress.c...


Carole Gill Ah! the dragon man!
hi, thanks for adding me :)


Philip Tolhurst J.R. wrote: "Thanks for the recommendation, always happy to read about dragons."

It's a good book well worth a read.


message 3: by J.R.

J.R. Barker Thanks for the recommendation, always happy to read about dragons.


Philip Tolhurst So it seems Goodreads has finally discovered I'm an author. :)


message 1: by Jalyn

Jalyn Thanks for the friend invite Philip! :)


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