Reading Time: 1 minute “Do you have any advice for a traveller?” “Yes, get a beach house. It gives you somewhere to go … a beach house doesn’t even […] Read More
Category: books
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes – I managed to complete a 50,000 plus word ‘novel’ in November and win NaNoWriMo 2014! Lets get the stats out of the way […] Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes So I’ve completed day 8 of NaNoWriMo 2014, and the best way to describe it thus far is ‘not bad‘. I came into this year’s […] Read More
Reading Time: 1 minute It has been three years since my first (and last) attempt at National Novel Writing Month in 2011, and though I enjoyed it, and was […] Read More
Reading Time: 5 minutes I waited a bit so I could read and cover all three of these books in one fell swoop – Ian Tregillis‘s Milkweed Triptych – […] Read More
Reading Time: 3 minutes What makes people successful? Is there anything to the nature vs. nurture? What other factors impact success? These are the kind of questions Malcolm Gladwell […] Read More
Reading Time: 1 minute November is almost upon us once more, and as many know, that’s the time for National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo. The goal: write a […] Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’d been a while since I read some classic science fiction, so I just finished up Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘humanity’s first encounter’ work “Rendezvous with […] Read More
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s always good when you happen upon a book series by an author you don’t know, and it turns out to be very decent indeed. […] Read More
Reading Time: 4 minutes Well, after 28 days of solid writing, thinking, more writing, less thinking and then more writing, I was able to submit my novel to the […] Read More