E-Books vs. Real Books: The Solution

March 22, 2011
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I’ve wanted to write a post about the on-going battle between lovers of e-books and those who prefer “real” or printed books for quite some time. It was originally going to be an article to be pitched to Writing Magazine and was going to be called, Stop Your Incessant Whining. I’ve never bothered writing it [...]

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Stationery, not standing still.

January 23, 2011
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Why do I have so many notebooks and pens? I need them for being a writer with. No really. Stop laughing, this is serious. Shut up. Look, I need this pen because it goes with this notebook which matches my hat.

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New Year, New Projects

December 28, 2010
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Look out! It’s only 2011 barging its way in, isn’t it. Bloody New Year, charging about like it owns the place. That’s the trouble with New Years, they’re full of demands. What demands? Why the demand that we all make resolutions, for starters. Personally, I can never be bothered with that sort of thing. I [...]

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NaNoWriMo: These Things I have Learned

November 30, 2010
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Well, I did it. I wrote 50,000 words—52,171 to be precise—in 30 days making me a NaNoWriMo winner. Does that make me better than you? Yes. I think it probably does. Now that we’re all agreed on that, I shall tell what I learned from my experience. It all started way back at the beginning [...]

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NaNoWriMo – Ready to start?

October 25, 2010
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I’ve got my hat so I must be ready to start my NaNoWriMo story. Yeah, that sounds right and must be true… But it ain’t. The hat dilemma was a cause for consternation and I ended up buying three different ones. I sent the Newsboy Cap back because it was too uncomfortable and bought this [...]

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