March 9th, 2010
The idea behind photo365 – taking a photograph, any photograph, every day, for a year – has been around for a few years now. Flickr is full of photo365 feeds. More recently, artists have been tapping into the idea with draw365, something I have been doing for just over a month.
Time is everything lately. With [...]
October 22nd, 2009
I follow a handful of literary agents on twitter. One of the more consistently interesting and helpful is Rachelle Gardner, who feeds us eager authors insightful advice to light the path to acquiring and agent and publisher.
On her blog this week is a guest post from Billy Coffey, one of the authors she represents, discussing [...]
June 3rd, 2009
What do you do when you come across a list of literary agents and publishers on twitter? That’s right, spam the lot of them!
I now follow a number of literary agents who use twitter, thanks to a recently distributed list. It has turned out to be quite an education. Amongst the personal messages and posts [...]
June 2nd, 2008
Anyone who is a user of twitter, the microblogging service, will know that in recent weeks it has been providing a less than stable and predictable service.
Like many, I use a desktop client application (Twitterific in my case) to send and receive to and from twitter. You can also have the twitter messages (tweets) sent [...]
April 7th, 2008
I was initially resistant about twitter, the micro-blogging service that has opened a new means of trivial communication across the net. I cannot say it has become an invaluable tool, but it is a valued accompaniment to my day.
For the past few days, and for no particular reason, I decided to de-twitterfy my life. I [...]
January 22nd, 2008
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January 9th, 2008
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November 23rd, 2007
Gold gathering tips for WOW
Gold is essential in making the most of WOW (World of Warcraft) – but I don’t need to tell YOU that! Getting your hands on gold can be one of the biggest frustrations in playing the game.
Do you want to spend hour after hour struggling for every bit of wow [...]
November 17th, 2007
A quetion I was asked a few days ago: why set Table Rappers in the Edwardian era as opposed to any other?
The decision to have my characters play out their adventures during the formative years of the 20th Century was not entirely too difficult to make. One might assume that as my stories are dealing [...]
September 15th, 2007
One of the biggest blocks to creative writing is the word processor. “Hang on! Surely you aren’t suggesting we go back to the days of quill and parchment?” I hear you cry. No, not quite, but you’re along the right lines.
Writing is re-writing. 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration. And I suspect there are more along similar [...]
