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When not to Advertise Anadin
CSI, The Theory of Everything , on Channel 5 in the UK included a plot with victims who had accidentally overdosed on headache medication. The ad breaks right after this revelation included an...
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Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom
I've spent the day finishing the first draft of Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom - as usual the stories over the 3500 word limit for AAM. So I'll have to slim it down in draft 2.
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In Bruges
In the way that dark chocolate became a lot darker a few years ago In Bruges takes dark comedy gangster films and makes them a lot darker. Its an action thriller with little action. An 18...
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Definitly Too Many Ideas
I'm having one of those weeks where I just seem to be constantly juggling projects... I've almost finished Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom . I've been retooling some of my old...
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Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem
Tonight The Sontaran Stratagem didn't make UNITs 3 extras in berets and a couple of Land Rovers and so far the Sontaran havn't been reinvented as the sixth member of the Village People . So the...
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Astonishing Adventures! Magazine Issue 2 Now In Print
Astonishing Adventures! Magazine Issue 2 is now available in print from Amazon it has my story The Steward, the Kriegsherr, his Femme Fatale & her Brother in it.
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Citrus-marinated Chicken
A recipe I really enjoy that I cooked a couple of weekends ago and thought I'd share here today. I use all the optional ingredients because I like it spicky but I know thats not to everyones...
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Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting- Part 3
Last week in part 2 of Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting - Part 2 I covered two variations on a three point lighting rigs. Tonight I'll cover another of the variations. Again the...
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NitS: Draft 2 Done
I did the last twenty pages of Night in the Sidhe draft 2 today. Now I have a complete list of all the characters, places and other important things that appear in the story. I also know how...
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood and other Time Travelling Adventures
Another Saturday night, another episode of Doctor Who using one of the classic Doctor Who styles: Doctor and assistant run around chased by guards while the story unfolds. Fortunately there...
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Omid Djalili would have struggled...
... and DarkDwarf's post Title Would Have Been Cut too . I finally watched BBC4's "Auntie's War on Smut" just before it expired from my iPlayer download tonight. Afterwards I...
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Omid Djalili - Live
Went to see Omid Djalili at the Liverpool Philarmonic tonight with Kim of the Split Writing Personalities and DarkDwarf . I liked the TV show but it didn't seem as funny as some of the...
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Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting- Part 2
Back in part 1 of Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting I said I'd work through renders from some of these different rigs. Tonight I'll cover two of the variations. Both of them place...
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My Second Favourite Onion Story of All Time
My favourite Onion article of all time has to be Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation . As of tonight I've a second place favourite: N ovelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation...
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Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii
So a nicely put together time travelling episode that not only managed the emotional plot development and remained reasonably logical throughout. Along with a hint of the shows darker side...
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Lets Go To The Castle At Night...
... He won't be expecting us then. A line from one character when friends of mine when playing the original Ravenloft adventure. I wasn't actually there but I've heard it so often it almost...
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Softening the Edges of God Rays
I was asked how to soften the edges of the god rays falling on the ground when following my Punching Holes in the Sky tutorial. Fortunately its pretty straight forward: select the sun and in...
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Moments of Inspiration and Vue
I've been playing with the trial version of Moments of Inspiration (MoI) a handy 3d modelling package which has a striking resemblance to Rhino. Thats unsurprising since it was created...
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NitS: Draft 2
I've twenty pages of NitS left to work over on the second draft. I've now got most of the mini cyclopedia of locations, characters, species and other such stuff. That will help me flesh out the...
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Dizzy!!!
Dizzy, I'm so Dizzy, my head is spinning Like a whirlpool, it never ends And it's Vue [girl], making it spin you're making me dizzy Yeah! After several frought attempts I've finally...
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