Cut & Paste - a new dimension
BOOK COVERS - THREE STAGES - SO FAR This is the making of the cover for a book of short stories to be released late this year or early...
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You can't proof-read too often
OK, so it wasn't the final ultimate version hot on its way to the printers, but it had had at least twenty reads-through. And still I...
Cut & Paste - still using the old way some days
You write something - a chapter, perhaps, or a short story. Then decide it's not in the right sequence, so you have to add bits,...
An irreverent 3-minute tale from the yet-to-be-released "Go Girl" (non-sci-fi)
CONSULTANT ‘Heavens Above, this place is a total shambles. No wonder you begged me to come and sort things out for you.’ The personnel…...
Aiming High for this Year?
My writing goals for this year? LinkedIn, and Nottingham Writers asked. 1. Survive the year, retaining full control of all bodily and...
Realms of Kyre
Realms of Kyre - Medieval Fantasy Saga - Book 1 - Foundling I spotted a picture of a caped figure with a sword recently, and thought it...
Diary of a Writer, 2022. Bit of a B+gger so far, this year
Isn’t there always something? 2022 has been a bit of a whatnot so far + but they all have a ++++ side… 1 Flooded bathroom. Plumbing...
Breathe, breathe, breathe.
Breathe... Breathe… Breathe… Slow… steady… I breathe. It seems to be mechanical; it is so regular. But it changes if I think about...
"The Wolf Whistle" and other stories from OsssOss Books
One complete Two-Minute story from "Twists & Turns" One wolf whistle in that situation is one too many. I mean, I’m the office stunner....
Sci-Fi "Further Yet" launched now. Read the whole of "Not Exactly" in one minute.
A week earlier than planned (I pressed the wrong button) here's Book Five in the New-Classic Series "Further Yet" NOT EXACTLY ‘Species?’...
The things you hear in the pub - One-minute story from "Continuum" - waiting to be released.
MY WIFE HAS THE FATTEST BACKSIDE ‘My wife has the fattest backside you’ve ever seen.’ I was looking round. We’d arranged to meet here at...
STILL MARKING the new year
STILL MARKING the new year… - Jimsgone – the secret planet. Grandad knows its secret, but can he find it in time? Would you want...
There's always Option 3
OPTION THREE. My conchiglie partner’s shell has suddenly begun to thicken up. ‘Winter’s coming, Rod,’ she told me. ‘First day of Autumn.’...
On BBC three times in a week!
Okay, so it's not for my writing. But three times in one week as the background picture for the BBC TV weather forecast is quite...
Making problems for yourself: Part 99: Book Titles
I’m assembling a short story book which was originally to be called “Travelling Light”. But I decided the stories were more about the...
Goals for 2022? LinkedIn was asking.
Goals for this year, LinkedIn asks? 1. Survive the year, retaining full control of all bodily and mental functions. 2. Write two...
Trying times with a book title and cover
Saturday p.m., in the UK, and I fancy a rest and re-think on writing a story about a young English man in Japan struggling to write...
After 59.5 years, I write about this day, with scarcely the slightest twist, to protect the guilty.
RIDERS IN THE SKY - Friday, 20th July, 1962. The day I left school (as a pupil - I did another 50+ years the other side of the...
Happy and Prosperous New Year - subscribers, regulars and visitors alike.
To mark the new year… - On the blog I have posted two brand-new sci-fi stories – very hot off the keyboard, and never seen the...
Daisy’s got her fingers stuck in the popcorn machine - 10-min story from "Of Other Times and Spaces"
Daisy’s got her fingers stuck in the popcorn machine Whatever Daisy saw, she had to poke at. The car radio packed up two days ago. Her...