Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Why I Write Reviews
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Why do I write what I call reviews? The short answer: Because it helps me think about my own writing. The long answer: I used to write what I’ll call proper reviews, they’d appear in Valkyrie and Ragnarok. My review of 7th Sea produced at short notice got me the writing gig with Valkyrie so […]
Where Did All the Good Spam Go?
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009The hardest thing I find about writing (after the actual slog of the writing part) is naming characters. It can become a real drag to find the right name and it makes the slog so much harder. So a couple of years ago I started using names pulled randomly from the names of senders on […]
Vue Preview Colour Change Script Page
Friday, July 24th, 2009Short and sweet tonight: I’ve added a page to the Vue section of impworks for the Vue Preview Colour Change Script. Need to work on my snappy title writing skills.
Radio 7 Heinlein
Monday, June 15th, 2009Discovered Radio 7 is doing a series of readings of abridged versions of Heinlein short stories. Forget the endless discussion of his politics which too often ignore a lot of the “meaning” in the stories in favour of having an easy bash at something the analyst doesn’t like (and sometime miss that Heinlein made it […]
Too Many Things
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009I think I need a few extra hours in the day – if I did each of the following would probably be its own post… Having finished a fascinating book on illegal gambling in the UK in the ’50s I started reading the first volume of Michael Palins’ diaries on Saturday and there a great […]
Consort Review
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Having finished The Translated Man I felt like reading some more fiction so I’ve just finished reading Kim’s latest novella Consort. Skipping quickly past the rather cliched cover. Not that its badly done but it reminds me of racks of second hand romance books in charity shops. At least with an e-book its not there […]
The Translated Man
Sunday, April 5th, 2009Finished reading The Translated Man by Chris Braak yesterday. Since I’m being regularly e-mailed by a web site who’ve taken to including my posts tagged reviews are included in their review listings where the reviews are in turn reviewed I’m going to do a bit of a Corbett first. While I may tag this as […]
Stay on target…
Monday, December 1st, 2008Sometimes the biggest problem I find when writing isn’t writing too few words its writing too many. Stop heckling from the back – I know when you’re trying to get past the end of the first chapter of a three volume novel trilogy to propel you into the best seller list so you can spend […]
Le Doulos
Sunday, November 16th, 2008I saw a write up of Jean-Pierre Melville’s film Le Doulos [1963] in one of those greatest films of all time lists burried between the always present classics and the good recent films that get voted onto lists for a few years and then fade. It caught my attention because its not one of the […]
'Addicted' to Addiction
Thursday, November 13th, 2008As I get older one thing that annoys me more and more is the quantity of what passes for journalism. The rise of editorial over actual reporting. The need to have a journalist at the scene of the event to give a live report to camera and have a nice chat with the studio where […]