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Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War

Macbeth is my favourite Shakespeare play.  I was lucky enough to study it twice in high school – at two different schools.  Foe English Literature I did at essay on Macbeth and the changing roles of...

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No Man’s Sky: Exploring The (Near) Infinite

As I have mentioned in the past, I would love to have the chance to explore places that no one has ever seen before. Given the lack of options available in reality, I do so through writing, and through...

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Unexpected Finds: The Kingdom of Makuria

Sometimes you stumble across things you had no idea about and end up rather blown away by it.  For me, history especially does that.  I love to find out new things about the past that I had never...

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Digital Data Storage That Can Last Near Forever

Anyone who has used computers or any other device that stores data has run into the problem of disc failure that leads to lose of data.  It is the reason we make – or should – backups in case the main...

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20 New Lines Found For The Epic Of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest narrative works known to man, dating back to as early as 2100BC and the Third Dynasty of Ur, in Mesopotamia.  It tells the story of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk,...

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A Recent Interview

I recently had the good fortune to be featured on Lorna Suzuki‘s All Kinds of Writing blog, in which I was interviewed concerning my writing and books. Lorna is the author of the epic fantasy Imago...

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The Year Ahead & January Update

It is possibly a little on the late side to be doing a post on writing plans for the year ahead but here it is. At the start of the year I set out some goals that I’d like to accomplish this year, the...

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A Whole Lot Of Real Estate

NASA has this week announced the discovery of a star system, TRAPPIST-1 which has not one, not two, not three, but SEVEN earth sized planets in it.  That is the most discovered so far around a single...

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February Update

It is hard to believe that we are already two months down in the year. February was another good month.  I kept on with the writing every day, plus managed a couple of other things. Word count was...

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March Update

This update is a little later than usual – half way into the month.  A quarter of the year is now down. The output for March was 20.6K of drafts and 50.3K of rewrites for almost 71k words.  At little...

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