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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Three New Short Stories
Idris was a dragon. Not a huge, fierce, fire-breathing dragon. No, Idris was a tiny, two weeks out of the egg, baby dragon, who had lost his mother. Fortunately Idris had met a young human, Jim, who was on the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Boffin, General, Mage, Miscellaneous, Science Fiction, Society, Writing
Tagged baby, dragon, Education, Egg, ending war, idris, secret, trade, university, war
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Writing is dangerous
Writing is dangerous. When you put that pen to paper, or more likely, hit that first key, you don’t know where you will end up. You set up a situation, a garden, say, with God, a tree, a couple, and … Continue reading
Posted in General, Internet, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Writing
Tagged Adam, Apple, Eve, God, Lord of the Rings, Pear, Road, Tree, Writing
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The Coming Apocalypse
I see people and nations trying to come to terms with global warming, but the efforts to reverse it seems disorganised, incomplete and ineffective. Governments sign agreements containing measures that sound good, but which are not implemented or implemented badly, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, General, Internet, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Society
Tagged Apocalypse, autocracy, Death, democracy, famine, Global Warming, Greta Thunberg, Millennials, war
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A New Book
I’ve just published a new book, a sequel to “The Last Beautiful Woman”. It’s a short novel (approx 20,000 words long) called “The Shock of Her Life”, and takes up the story of Jenna and her friends. When it … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Jenna, Last Beautiful Woman, Miscellaneous, Writing
Tagged Jenna, long life, Sandman
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The Last Beautiful Woman – discounted
For a limited time, my eBook, “The Last Beautiful Woman” is available for $1.99 at Smashwords. Please use the code FD56V at the checkout.
Posted in General, Internet, Last Beautiful Woman, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged fiction, Last Beautiful Woman, price cut
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A Can of Worms
This is yet another post about the writing process. OK, it fascinates me, as I consider what happens in my brain/mind as I write something, but I risk the possibility of it not being interesting to anyone else. It’s around … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Computing, Internet, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Society, Writing
Tagged character, edit, merge, modify, plot, Shakespeare, shorten, story structure, technology, typewriter, writing process
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Writing and Arrogance
Have you ever written a word and wondered if you spelled it right? You say to yourself, “That word looks weird!” But the spellchecker doesn’t underline the word. It must be right, mustn’t it? I typed “arrogance” above and it … Continue reading
Posted in General, Miscellaneous, Science, Science Fiction, Society, Writing
Tagged Arrogance, characters, location, Lost in Space, people, place, problem, story
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