Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
Sugary Pulp Research Goodness
Monday, July 14th, 2008I love it when research material falls into my lap. I came across a book about the espionage and shady goings on in Shanghai in the 1920s-40s era for the massive sum of £1.99 in my local remaindered book shop on Saturday. Handy since some of NitS is set there around then and involves shady […]
Trying to Lose My Muse
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008I’ve been asked to write an article. That shouldn’t be a problem I’ve done it before and written far longer ones in a few evenings. Except I keep getting ideas for stories. I even know where my stalled alternate history, action, highwaymen novel ought to be going finally. All I need is a box I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
NitS: Draft 2
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008I’ve twenty pages of NitS left to work over on the second draft. I’ve now got most of the mini cyclopedia of locations, characters, species and other such stuff. That will help me flesh out the details and keep track of it as I go along. I’ve also got a short list of the three […]