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Yearly Archives: 2013
Slowly… but surely
Once you get the ball rolling, it’s difficult to know what to do. Service the blog? Make connections to new social networking sites? Try to maintain interest? Finish the book? I’ve opted for the latter. It’s getting there. Just got…
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II-V-I visual chord method
I’ve been trying to find a way to memorise 2-5-1 on the alto sax and I came up with this. If you’re into cycling through such chords, you may find this visual approach useful. N.B. the keys in small font…
Posted in Movies and music
Pure evil… In my attic
Having spent the entire day fighting my way through rolls of fibre glass and rats, I finally discover THIS FIEND in the corner. It’s about four foot tall and smells of soot. Any takers?
Posted in Muse of the moment
Dirty Loops just hit me
Really excited finally to hear a new tune from Dirty Loops. I got to it when it had only had 300 views, an hour after uploading. Join me in watching it (again).
Posted in Movies and music
The library scene from Se7en
When I was chewing over the idea of children exploring a (potentially ominious) mirror world and spending years in the Replica reading books, I had this scene in the back of my mind. In a film that is largely characterised…
Posted in Movies and music
Tracking shots that create tension
A number of people who have read The Mirror Children, say that it reads like a screenplay. I know that I think visually, but I realise now that when I am writing I am often visualising a scene in movement. With…
Posted in Movies and music
Punctuating thoughts in prose
It’s taken me a long time to settle on a method for punctuating thoughts. A lot of the older children’s novels I read (from the 1950s and 1960s) punctuate thoughts with double or single inverted commas, but this makes the thoughts…
Posted in The publishing process
Final draft… I think
I’m nearly finished with what I hope will be final draft of the book. To get to this stage, I converted a earlier draft into an e-pub (iBooks) file and emailed to as many people as I thought would read it on…
Posted in The publishing process
Atari’s console dud ET to be re-animated!
This is old news but such a crazy story that I thought it worthy of mention. Perhaps the most appalling console game ever devised, Atari’s 1982 Christmas clanger ET, is to be dug up from where it was buried in Mexico…
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