Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category
I Hold in My Hand…
Friday, June 20th, 2008… my paper copy of Astonishing Adventures Magazine Issue 3. It will be joining my growing pile of summer reading including Pulp Fiction The Villains,June’s BBC History Magazine (for the articles on revolution and Chamberlain’s place in history being unfair), July’s BBC Focus (for the articles on what Britain would be like if all the […]
A little routine Overhall
Thursday, June 19th, 2008I’ve been busy on some routine back end improvements on the impworks site. The WWW equivalent of tuning a cars engine – in this case moving to a stricter version of html and making sure all the correct header strings are being sent to the browser that go with them.
Astonishing Adventures Magazine Issue 3 Print Version Is Available Now!
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Astonishing Adventures Magazine Issue 3 is now available in print on Amazon for $9.
Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom – Away
Friday, May 30th, 2008I’ve sent Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom off to Astonishing Adventures Magazine last night. Glad I gave it one last proof read because some little graphics had crept in to the file. I think they were Word 2007 editing markup converted to graphics by switching to old style doc format but I […]
First Vue News Interview
Monday, May 12th, 2008I’ve just posted the first Vue News blog interview Monsoon and Wabe: Burning Up the Vue!
Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom
Sunday, May 4th, 2008I’ve spent the day finishing the first draft of Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom – as usual the stories over the 3500 word limit for AAM. So I’ll have to slim it down in draft 2.
Astonishing Adventures! Magazine Issue 2 Now In Print
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Astonishing Adventures! Magazine Issue 2 is now available in print from Amazon it has my story The Steward, the Kriegsherr, his Femme Fatale & her Brother in it.
Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting- Part 3
Monday, April 21st, 2008Last week in part 2 of Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting – Part 2 I covered two variations on a three point lighting rigs. Tonight I’ll cover another of the variations. Again the key light is at 30 degrees to the horizontal and 45 degrees from the front of the subject to be […]
NitS: Draft 2 Done
Sunday, April 20th, 2008I did the last twenty pages of Night in the Sidhe draft 2 today. Now I have a complete list of all the characters, places and other important things that appear in the story. I also know how much work there is to do on finishing the inner story in draft 3 before moving on […]
Omid Djalili would have struggled…
Thursday, April 17th, 2008… and DarkDwarf’s post Title Would Have Been Cut too. I finally watched BBC4’s "Auntie’s War on Smut" just before it expired from my iPlayer download tonight. Afterwards I looked up the little green book, properly known as BBC Variety Programmes Policy Guide, that BBC light entertainment writers had to conform to in the 1940s […]