On Day 5, after God had created the animals of the Earth, He gathered together his marketing team and handed them the task of designing the next big thing - Mankind. He left them with a broad concept and one afternoon in which to come up with something better than the Great Monkey Failure. The …
Tag: fiction
Story Bounce – The Amulet of Boon!
When I posted the Story Bounce idea I had no idea anything would happen, at best I thought a few people might leave random comments but after it was highlighted on The Daily Post things just went Wooosh! The story telling folk swung by and added their slice of fiction to the story, and my …
Are you talkin’ to me?
Using speech recognition software is akin to witches who stare into their cauldrons uttering magical incantations. It's a bizarre method of making stuff happen on a screen, its uses range from pointless time-wasting to providing less able bodied people life changing results. I get the impression that speech recognition software is aimed at a percentage …
OneNote to rule them all!
I've been inspired by The Daily Post at WordPress.com to write a piece on how I manage my writing time. The Daily Post challenges bloggers to write something on their blog every day. You can use their logo's with the slogan: I'm Part of Post A Day 2001, or in my case: I'm Part of …
How I research stuff
You may read some fiction where the research is very obvious, and whilst that can be attractive to some readers, I prefer to read (and write) stuff that has some factual truth without becoming overly saturated by endless tracts of text devoted to research. When I was younger I never gave much thought about research …
Dave Farmer 