A good introduction to Scrivener, by way of MakeUseOf
No writing prompt today.
Yesterday I got news of the death of British actor Patrick Macnee, whose face – despite his long and varied career – will be forever connected with the character of John Steed in the 1960s TV series, The Avengers.
This really feels like a death in the family.
I grew up watching the Avengers. Continue reading
Chillingly lucid analysis from Dean Wesley Smith
The only true downside of this writing thing is the black moods.
As I told in the past, when I’m writing – and these days, I’m writing most of the time – I am subject to bouts of what I suppose the Elizabethans would have called melancholia.
Basically, I get mentally tired but at the same time restless, easily irritated and in a state of what I can only describe as aimless sadness.
It’s bad.
I regress to a state of sub-human standards – I don’t shave, my daily schedule gets chaotic, and I am in general pretty unpleasant to deal with. Continue reading
Good thoughtful piece by New Pulp ace Percival Constantine
Sir Christopher Lee has gone to join his friends Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and John Carradine wherever legends go when their time among us is up.
He will be missed.
More explorations of old photographs in search of characters.
This photo, taken in Les Alles, in Paris, early in the 20th century, is – to me at least – the sort of picture that holds within its frame a whole story.
We have just to find it and write it.
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