I’ve been busy.
It has been about six weeks since I posted anything on my blog. I have been extremely busy with my degree. I am currently building a new website for one of the web design subjects. It has interactive elements, i.e., things that move on it, like a slide show of pictures and hotspots that reveal […]
Studying…not much writing.
I’ve been extremely busy with my course since I started it. I reckon I am averaging 50 hours a week on it. I have developed a nasty habit of persisting on a problem until I have solved it, e.g., staying up until 2 a.m. or waking up in the middle of the night with possible […]
Studying/Writing
I am now a full-time student, studying for a Bachelor of Arts (internet communications) through Open Universities Australia. Most of my course is conducted online through Curtin University in WA. I only found out last week that my Austudy had been approved – eight weeks after I applied. Surprised the hell out of me. I […]
My (changing) Writing Efforts in January.
January was a very moody month for me. I had a great break in Melbourne for a few days. I stayed in St Kilda and played tourist. I went to a one-day match cricket match. I thought Australia would lose, but Glen Maxwell hit 94 runs, and Australia beat the Indians. I had my birthday […]
My Ranking of 2015’s Science Fiction Movies.
As I have done the last few years, here is my review of the science-fiction films I caught up with last year. Compared to 2014, last year was a massive letdown for science fiction. In 2014, there was the wonder of Interstellar, the cleverness of Predestination, and the action-packed thrills of Edge of Tomorrow. All of them […]
My Writing Efforts in 2015.
2015 is over. I won’t miss it. It was a year when tiredness had me questioning, more than usual, my writing abilities. I had a bit of a writing breakdown in April when I realised my writing was going nowhere slowly. I simply wasn’t writing enough. I still don’t, but my word count did go […]
Female Heroes
Recently, some media commentators have said that female heroes are coming to the fore in science fiction because of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Mad Max: Fury Road. But female heroes have been around for years in science fiction, depending on your definition of a hero. Here are some that I think fit the […]
Christmas Anthology
I have a gift for those who read this blog: a Christmas anthology containing a fantasy story written by me. I have just fixed the epub and pdf file links, as they did not appear to be working. epub file mobi file pdf file It has a diverse range of stories written by writers from […]
My writing efforts in November
The graph to the left shows a drop in my word output in November, suggesting I spent much less time writing. That is not the case. My word output dropped because I was proofreading/editing and redrafting. I continued redrafting a novel and spent a week trying to finalise a long short story due for submission […]
My writing efforts in October.
I finished the first draft of Branded in mid-October. At 135,000 words, it is way too big for a young adult novel, so I will have to try to cut tens of thousands of words from it. I have already written notes for its sequel, set 20 years later. I am happy with the story, but […]