Getting ready for publishing, it’s time to tidy up my blog postings for The Brittle Sea. I’ve got about 25 sample chapters online and as I’m getting closer and closer to publication, I think it’s time to remove most of...
The courtroom drama is written and I’m happy with that, though it took longer than I expected. My next, and probably final big challenge is building a cannery. No, not in real life, dear reader, but in the book. My two main characters are...
The current lockdown here in Cyprus means we can’t go outside our premises just for the hell of it, except to walk our dog. For any other purpose we need to send a text message to a special number giving a reason why we want to go out, our...
Bread, sometimes referred to as The Staff of Life, is a staple food in all human societies
It’s 1972 and I’m indulging my teenage passion for speed. No, not the drug, the real McCoy, motorbike racing, or in my case, Speedway. And not the American idea of Speedway, this is the gritty version of dirt track riding round and...
I’ve just watched a fly-by of a police helicopter. Never normally seen in this neck of the woods, but increasingly being put to use to detect illegal gatherings. Sounds like the opening line from a story about a police state, like something...
It’s been pretty hot today, 28°C/82°F here in Cyprus, and it’s still hot at 4pm, despite it clouding over. Wall to wall blue sky means, hopefully, the summer is coming and we’re not due any more bad weather. The...
As I said in a previous piece, I have no experience of a court of law, so writing a courtroom scene has proved and is proving problematic. I’m getting there, slowly but surely. What I do have experience in, and very recently, is a stay in...
So, here I am set for a new writing challenge. This time it’s the same problem, no experience, in an alien setting to me, a court of law. Even more alien is the fact it’s a court of law in America, New York to be exact. So...
The man’s voice was so high pitched he could have mistaken it for a small girl.
Writing is creative process. But you also need a framework to work within.
The Coronavirus pandemic has spread across the globe at an alarming rate, overwhelming many governments who simply were not prepared for what hit them. The virus is spread from human to human by touch, inhalation of infected airborne water...
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