News Surfing round-up on The Digital Fix! Pond Life semi-review! Red Dwarf space disaster! Exciting.
Link: News Surfing round-up on The Digital Fix! Pond Life semi-review! Red Dwarf space disaster! Exciting.
Latest review of Sinbad on Dork Adore. Has it improved yet, or will my despairing tone be continuing?
Review of Charlie Brooker's A Touch of Cloth on Dork Adore. So subtle, you wouldn't notice it punching you in the face.
I review The Walking Dead season 2 DVD on Dork Adore. Includes link to watch my favourite featurette online.
Latest TV news round-up on The Digital Fix, including Doctor Who "Pond Life" miniseries and some actor/writing squabbling.
Review of the BBC's exciting crime drama Accused on Dork Adore. Is it good? Or better than Sinbad, at least?
Writing About Writing About Writing
So, for this week’s blog post about writing: the painful art of commentating on your own work.
You might think blog posts about writing might prepare me for the 2,500 words commentary I have to produce about my 16,000 word portfolio. I hoped so too, but it turns out I never talk in detail about my own work, only that of other people, mostly in broad strokes. Nonetheless, here is what I have found so far whilst commentating my own material.
Latest Sinbad review on Dork Adore. Yeah, it's pretty bad, but please read the review anyway, I suffer for this.
Latest News Surfing on The Digital Fix! Includes ponderous look at Celebrity Big Brother, Doctor Who, Thick of It, Glee...
News Surfing column on The Digital Fix, rounding up new Joss Whedon Marvel TV, Doctor Who and X Factor news. Yes, X Factor.
Pirates, Zombies and Monkeys – Oh Christ!
For every craft, there is an easy shortcut. In cooking, you can just add salt. In fashion, just wear black. In warfare, just launch a nuclear weapon.
And also in storytelling, you can just throw in vampires, zombies, pirates, monkeys, cowboys, aliens, wizards or one of the other big tropes. I’m not saying these things always suck (vampire joke), but I am weary of them being used as a substitute for new ideas.
My write-up of the new Merlin trailer on Dork Adore, including possible connections to Batman.
Link: My write-up of the new Merlin trailer on Dork Adore, including possible connections to Batman.
Friday short story time: "From Above"
Another not-that-mature effort this time, perhaps, but it’s not very long and does include reference to the concept of “morphic fields”, so it’s not all lowbrow. And it’s probably an incorrect reference, but the lead character isn’t meant to be a scientist or anything.
Much like myself. Oh, and if you want to see the situation in which I wrote this, Tuesday’s post on writing environments still exists. This story came out of a conversation I had whilst on holiday in Austria, and is the closest you lot will get to a souvenir. Enjoy!
Much like myself. Oh, and if you want to see the situation in which I wrote this, Tuesday’s post on writing environments still exists. This story came out of a conversation I had whilst on holiday in Austria, and is the closest you lot will get to a souvenir. Enjoy!
