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I’ve got Simon to post one story up, will post the next one when it comes back from the tutor..marked. I hope people recognise the main character, and would appreciate feedback.

We were rather last minute (or I was, at least) but we’ve finally handed in our final coursework for the Creative Writing: Science Fiction and Fantasy course that we’ve been doing for the last twelve-or-so weeks. It was thoroughly enjoyable Read more…

Back at university, entire semesters would go past with hardly any work to do, then we’d suddenly find ourselves deluged by multiple coursework projects, all to hand in the same week, leading to a manic final dash to get everything Read more…

Back in the day, I used to make films. They weren’t particularly good but they were great fun to put together. More importantly, they taught me a lot about what not to do. Unfortunately, just as I felt like I Read more…

No, not of my novel, Evinden, but of a film script I’ve been working on for a fair few weeks now. Rather a long slog, and it’s still only a first draft, but at last the entire thing is down Read more…

I was reading an issue of Amazing Spider-Man last night and unexpectedly stumbled across a rather nifty definition of what it means to be a patriot, written by Mr Mark Twain. I quote: In a republic, who is ‘the country‘? Read more…

I’ve added links to a few more recent short stories I’ve written. Most of these are literally 10-minute jobs written as exercises for the creative writing course we’re on at the moment and are tests of style/character/POV etc. Next up Read more…

I’ve just put links up on the right to a couple of stories I’ve written as part of the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Creative Writing unit we’ve been doing for the last 8-or-so weeks. They’re pretty short, so take a peek! Read more…

After neglecting our little website for many a month, I’ve finally got round to rejiggling it a bit. The first step being to remove just about everything except this blog. Now that I’ve finally detached myself from 90s-style websites, hopefully Read more…

I forgot we had this, and now I remembered I figure I may as well post on it! First things first, I am now officially thirty two years old. How old is that? How grey am I? And how have Read more…