My past two weeks.
My writing.
Hi all, After a number of posts not about me, I thought it was time to shout out to the world about what I have been up to with my writing. New Article on Divine I have a new article up on the Divine website. This one is for all those people who love […]
To Plot or Abandon.
Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters (Part Two) If you missed my last post, I have been reading an ibook called Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters. The masters are John Irving, Carol Joyce Oates, Ernest J Gaines, Amy Tan, Norman Mailer and Carol Shields. Plotting a novel. There are supposedly two types of writers: […]
Creative Writing: Learning From the Masters.
I am about halfway through the ibook, Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters. The masters are Norman Mailer, Amy Tan, Earnest J Gaines, John Irving, Carol Shields, and Joyce Carol Oates. I have read a couple of John Irving’s novels (The World According To Garp and Hotel New Hampshire) and seen at least three films […]
Comparison of ebook and ibook prices.
Price of Amazon’s Top 100 Bestsellers. For the past couple of years, every now and then, I have checked the price of the top 100 selling ebooks on Amazon. Originally the top 100 included free ebooks, which quickly came to dominate the top 100, but about a year ago Amazon split the free ebooks […]
ipads and the writer
ipads and the Writer Last week I saw a post for a free writing course called Creative Writing, Learning from the Masters. The six featured writers included Norman Mailer. I quickly went to have a look at it on Apple’s itunes U. I successfully download the ibook of the course onto my computer but […]
My Writing, The Life of Pi and The Hobbit
My last couple of posts were about my writing aspirations for this year and movies I planned to see because I had read the books. So here’s an update on how my writing and movie viewing is progressing. Writing After writing 50,264 words for National Novel Writing Month last November, I have decided to keep […]
My Writing Year in Review
My Writing Year in Review. Okay, I am into stats, so here’s a few writing numbers for 2012. · Last year I wrote, at least according to my daily word counts, 117,649 words, which is an average of 321 words a day. · I wrote on every day of the year, so my output on […]
2012’s Science Fiction in Review.
Science Fiction in 2012. Science fiction has not had a great year in television and movies. No Inception or Moon was released this year. No Torchwood made it on to the small screen and Doctor Who mainly sucked again. But the lack of quality on the big and small screen was more than made […]
Movies of Books.
Movies of Novels. I have read both the Life of Pi, by Yann Martel and The Hobbit, so I will toddle off to the picture theatre to see their films. When I read the Life of Pi I found the Sixth Sense like twist at the end threw me out of a great fantasy […]