Photography is a writer’s friend – part 2)

Last week in part 1) I wrote about how the taking of photographs could benefit the writer.  How the act of composing the picture, seeing what is actually there can relate to writing.  How the […]

Photography is a writer’s friend – part 1)

Now I’ve always been interested in photography.  I wouldn’t use the word passionate because there have always been other interests that have taken priority. But, photography is something that fits in so well with other […]

Politics, the future and science fiction

In the UK right now we are in the middle of election fever, or I guess for most of us election overload, to the point where you feel like shouting, please can we just vote […]

An author blog – what it can and can’t do for you, part 2)

In last weeks’ blog I mused on some of the things of the things that having an author blog has and hasn’t done for me.  It has improved me as a writer, but it hasn’t sold […]

Robots – will they make us lazy?

I suppose I could rephrase this with ‘robots (machines) are making us lazy.’  Machines have and are increasingly ensuring that, in the west at least, fewer and fewer of us have jobs/lives that entail hard, […]