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Archive for November, 2007
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On Eating Elephants
Posted on November 28, 2007 | 1 CommentThere’s a great piece by Karen Miller in the Book Swede’s pages about how to write really hard, big novels…it resonates for me powerfully, after spending this year on a complex... -
On Beowulf, 3D
Posted on November 19, 2007 | 1 CommentMany years ago I studied Anglo Saxon as a module at University, and could actually read and speak a few snippets of that of that long dead, resonant, rhythmic, repetitive, blood-drenched-battle... -
On the Writers’ Strike
Posted on November 16, 2007 | No CommentsThe Writers Guild of America are currently on strike…in Britain, there are many screenwriters so starved of work that the idea of going on strike actually seems comical. And very... -
On Screenwriters as Authors
Posted on November 7, 2007 | No CommentsI went to the London Film School Screenwriters Showcase on Monday night, at the ICA (that wonderful white building on the Mall). This is an event designed to promote the... -
More on NASA TV
Posted on November 4, 2007 | 2 CommentsI glanced briefly at NASA TV yesterday, but it all looked rather boring – the usual shots of men in Mission Control eating their biscuits and scratching their ears. Had... -
More on Imaginary Worlds
Posted on November 2, 2007 | 3 CommentsLast night’s Writer’s Guild forum on fantasy and science fiction writing proved a great success. We had a full house of interested writers, many of them non-Guild members (there was...