An extra room has magically been added to your home overnight. The catch: if you add more than three items to it, it disappears. How do you use it? As blog prompts go, this one is pretty fun! My first thought was a beanbag, me and a book. But that's rather pointless, really. Why have … Continue reading The ultimate house extension
Sunday Journal ~ life balance, new website and a book launch
Work on my novel revision has been coming along well during the past month. I'm still spending lots of time working on 'creative endeavours' in cafes, and still very much enjoying myself. I have a routine that's not a routine -- that is, it changes from day to day, but there's a certain modular regularity … Continue reading Sunday Journal ~ life balance, new website and a book launch
D&D Chronicles: Zillah takes the unknown path (and has a good day)
ZILLAH I fought a bear, once. That’s how my nose broke and I got the scar. I was only 16, still an apprentice, when my master and I got too close to her cubs. Our fault completely. The mother charged and disembowelled my master before I even knew what was happening. She turned to me, … Continue reading D&D Chronicles: Zillah takes the unknown path (and has a good day)
Book release: Fallen on good times by Rewan Tremethick
Today I'd like to welcome UK author, Rewan Tremethick, to celebrate the impending launch of his debut novel, FALLEN ON GOOD TIMES, which is released in paperback and on kindle on 31 May via Paddy's Daddy Publishing. Book blurb Fairy tales are warnings. Legend is history. Monsters are real. Paranormal detective Laslo Kane learned this … Continue reading Book release: Fallen on good times by Rewan Tremethick
What if the main character dies in chapter 2?
Every so often I read a book that really makes me stop and think about how stories are told. There's a lot of theory out there stating the 'rules'. But, at the end of the day, anything goes as long as it works... As long as a reader engages with it. It's really good to … Continue reading What if the main character dies in chapter 2?
D&D Chronicles: Zillah arrives and explores a citadel
The title of this post might give it away... Yep, another of my Dungeons and Dragons characters has bitten the dust. In fact, three of our party didn't make it through our mega D&D sleepover this past weekend. We're churning through the lower level characters at the moment and it's getting tedious. Meanwhile our level … Continue reading D&D Chronicles: Zillah arrives and explores a citadel
Sunday journal ~ the other client
I've been writing steadily over the past two weeks. That is, I've been putting in a couple of hours most days, mostly in cafes. I've been treating 'creative endeavours' (including 'cafe writing') as another client in this new freelance/self-employed life of mine; another client with its own timesheet category. Not only does this log the … Continue reading Sunday journal ~ the other client
A-Z of fantasy: J is for Journey
One of the things I've always loved about fantasy is the JOURNEY. Journey: an act of travelling from one place to another. This can be literal -- epic fantasy is full of tremendous and inspiring journeys from A to B. None is more iconic of course than the journey of Frodo and his companions in … Continue reading A-Z of fantasy: J is for Journey
Sunday journal ~ entering the world of Mac
The past couple of weeks have been a challenge on the creativity front, owing to a few different factors, one of which has been the bad behaviour of my netbook computer -- which is the machine I've been taking to cafes. Basically the battery has more or less died, giving me little more than 1.5 … Continue reading Sunday journal ~ entering the world of Mac
D&D Chronicles: More death and some vengeance
KAE I have made a grave mistake. We came north with such high hopes, Effu and I. We two together were going to conquer the world and make a fortune doing it. "Opportunities abound in the north," someone said. Who said it? I cannot remember. It doesn't matter. They lied. All I have encountered in the … Continue reading D&D Chronicles: More death and some vengeance
Ellen Gregory 