I’ve been poking around the Wheel of Time books of late – not reading them as such, more studying how they – and a few other books – are written and put together. I first stumbled upon WoT sometime in the very early 90s – around the time of the third book, The Dragon Reborn [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Trafalgar Flag and Waterloo Chair
Posted: October 22, 2009 in GeneralTags: history, napoleon, nelson, trafalgar, waterloo
When it comes to the Napoleonic Era, I’m fairly intrigued. So it was with great interest I recently found out that not one by two fairly significant artefacts of the period are up for auction. The first is the chair Napoleon Bonaparte sat on before his army was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. I’d [...]
Captain Mal Reynolds Returns
Posted: October 21, 2009 in GeneralTags: castle, firefly, nathan fillion, tv shows
Before any Firefly fans – and I count myself as one – get too excited, Firefly isn’t returning. I am instead referring to Castle, which stars Nathan Fillion, and specifically to the promo for next weeks new episode. Yes, that is right – Castle (as played by Nathan Fillion) dresses up as Mal Reynolds (as [...]
Of Progress and Names
Posted: October 17, 2009 in fantasy, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, writing, writing update
This last week has been wild. Seven straight days of hitting the 4K+ mark of words. 30,403 words written in total. All new. That is almost as much as I managed for the whole of last month. I had hopped after the first couple of days I could keep the progress up and have been [...]
What I’m Reading
Posted: October 15, 2009 in What Im Reading, writing updateTags: books, reading, writing
Been a few months since I had a look at what books were cluttering on the bedside table, so it is time for another look. Some are new, and some are still there from last time. Oddly, most aren’t there to simply be read. Some are for inspiration and ideas, and others I’m trying to [...]
On Fire
Posted: October 14, 2009 in fantasy, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, writing, writing update
As I mentioned on Monday, I had started working on something new, something with no plot and no clue to where it was leading. As of today it has continued to explode into life. From 5pm Saturday to 5pm today (Wednesday), I have managed 4k+ a day and in those 96 hours have written 20,000 [...]
A Strange Turn Of Events
Posted: October 12, 2009 in fantasy, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, writing, writing update
The last couple of days have been unusual to say the least. Saturday morning started fairly normally. I scratched out around 1000 words of the rewrite of Tears of the Mountain, but I was, as normal, not putting a lot of effort into it. Come afternoon I was trawling the ‘net wasting time. Along the [...]
Wolf and the Stars
Posted: October 9, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, World Building, writing, writing update
The second of the Cahuac Cycle short stories has been finished off and upoaded now. This one is called Wolf and the Stars, and is a little different than the other three in that, though it features Cahuac, it doesn’t revolve around him. It can be read here. I think it should be obvious what [...]
Cahuac and the Bees
Posted: October 9, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, smashwords, World Building, writing, writing update
The third short story of the series of mythological fantasy tales about Cahauc has been added to the site and to smashwords. This one is called Cahuac and the Bees and follows on from the events of the first two, though is still a stand alone story. In this one Cahuac must find out why [...]
Smashwords Update
Posted: October 8, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: Pure Escapism, smashwords, writing, writing update
Was surprised when I did a count of the number of downloads of the various Pure Escapism short stories on Smashwords to discover there have been almost 1700 to date. Which would imply a few people are reading my stories – or at least starting to read them. The Hall of Black Trees is to [...]
