The next chapter in The Chronicles of the White Bull is now on the site, entitled Wisdom from The Ashes. It follows on from the events of Echoes of Dark Reflections and Nhaqosa is not in a good state physically or mentally from the encounter in the dark crystalline tower. His band is starting to [...]
Archive for the ‘Pure Escapism’ Category
A New Nhaqosa Story: Wisdom from the Ashes
Posted: December 3, 2010 in fantasy, Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, minotaur, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
0
A New Approach
Posted: December 2, 2010 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy writing, novel writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing update
I’d be the first to admit that I am not all that great at marketing myself – in fact I am terrible at it. I just don’t have the personality to push myself forward like some do. But that has to change. I need to start doing so, to get my stories out there for [...]
Coming Soon
Posted: October 6, 2010 in fantasy, Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, minotaur, Pure Escapism, Short story, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Just a quick update of what is in the works – besides the work on the website. Secondly, and possibly more importantly, I need to complete Wisdom from the Ashes, the forth story in the Nhaqosa series, The Chronicles of the White Bull. The sooner the better, so that I can update the compilation for [...]
Plenty Of Minotaur Fans Out There
Posted: September 21, 2010 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, minotaur, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Since I started this blog almost two years ago I have made some 300 posts. Of them one post – simply entitled The Minotaur – has been responsible for more hits from search engines than any other. By a massive amount. Minotaur has resulted in almost 7 times as many hits as the next highest [...]
Upcoming Changes
Posted: September 18, 2010 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: Cara's Choice, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, smashwords, writing, writing update
Its been a bit since I last posted on here – got kind of sidetracked with others things. I’ve got a couple of things planned to do soon ™. First is to get The Tears of the Mountain tidied up enough and start shopping it around. The other, and bigger, project is to do a [...]
A New Idea
Posted: August 24, 2010 in fantasy, Pure EscapismTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, gladiators, minotaur, pulps, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I’m midway through the rough draft for the new Nhaqosa the minotaur short story, untitled as yet. The very first story I put on this website – The Pit – was about him (though it wasn’t initially meant to be so) and is still one of my favourites. I’ve just rewatched Gladiator, and doing so [...]
The List
Posted: August 5, 2010 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, pulps, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
A couple of years back, when I first started this site (wow, has it been that long?) I also started jotting down short story ideas in various notepads. That list just keeps getting longer despite some seventeen short stories and seven parts of the Cara’s Choice serial completed. There are some fourteen ideas in the [...]
Ray and the Alien Princesses
Posted: May 27, 2010 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: aliens, humour, robot, sci-fi, Short story, writing, writing update
The rather silly little sequel to the rather silly little short story Ray and His Human has been completed and posted for your amusement. Ray was meant to be a one off short story but I liked it enough to write a sequel – and maybe more will make an appearance in the future. In [...]
The Next Rough Draft Done
Posted: May 17, 2010 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: Pure Escapism, sci-fi, Short story, writing, writing update
Have finished off another rough draft, this time for a sequel to the rather silly little sci-fi short story Ray and his Human, called Ray and the Alien Princesses. And yes, they are green. As normal things go wrong for Brian and it is up to the snarky, sarcastic android Ray to save the day. [...]
Thats A Few Words
Posted: May 14, 2010 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I decided to do a word count on all the stories I have made available and discovered that it totalled up to around 121,000 words in 22 stories. That is slightly larger than your average novel and more than I had expected. And it is not done with yet. Another is getting close to completion [...]
