A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
I just love stories about odd happenings nobody can explain. Enough said.
There’s a song Tom Jones used to sing (clue’s in the title) and as a kid I got to listen to it, a lot, on the radio. Usually on the BBC on something called ‘Workers Playtime’ which was a radio programme broadcast by the BBC during World War II and intended as a morale booster…
There’s a lot of hoo-hah going on in the writing community at the moment concerning outlining in writing. Let me be straight about this piece. I’m not advocating this is how you should write a story or book. This is simply me telling you, dear reader, how I write my books in the Twilight Zone….
Artificial Intelligence – AI It’s a subject that is creating great disturbances in the dark side of writing. The dark side being that area where so called authors are claiming the rights to a book or books that has actually been written by an AI app. Most writers will be up in arms about this,…
Something weird has happened in my world, my real world that is. You would expect weird events in worlds I’ve created in my books, but no, this is a real world weird event. You may realise I’m recovering from cancer, I’ve written about it often enough. One of the odd things I’ve experienced is no…
Have you ever wondered where certain sayings come from? Saved by the Bell is one that’s especially dear to my heart. The saying is supposed to be a reference to boxing, where the ringing of a bell signals the start and end of each round. The bell that sounds to signify the end of a…
In my working life with computers designing software and designing logos for t-shirts, or in my retirement, writing novels and stories, worrying about the word count, or simply reading a book on a tablet, wondering how many more pages to go before I get to the end of the book, numbers play a significant role…
I wrote the following piece in 2014, nine long years ago. So much in the world has changed since then. We’ve had Covid-19, there’s a war between Ukraine and Russia where drones are being used for the first time in real combat missions. And of course, we have a lot of screaming and shouting about…
A post on Twitter about not remembering a song/artist’s name has prompted me to remembering the times I’ve had music or songs I dislike going through my head, and not being able to get rid of them, sometimes for days. I’m usually pretty good at remembering songs/tunes/artists, I even get some right in quizzes, but…
Once upon a time I worked in an Oast House… “What’s an oast house?” I hear you ask. It’s a place used for drying hops, which is a main ingredient in the production of beer. It’s what gives beer its distinctive flavour and is quite smelly when picked from the vine like plant which grows…
Brown snakes on the Pacific Island of Guam are so much out of control, causing problems for the local bird population, i.e., eating the birds, and even causing power outages, that the authorities have employed parachuting Ninja Mice to hold back the invasion. Okay, so I’ve stretched the story a bit, they are not Ninja…
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