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Video: Should you take the NaNoWriMo Challenge?
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
With November fast approaching, you might be considering taking part in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Challenge. But what is it like to take part? In this video (my first 'proper' video and my first writing video on my YouTube channel), I talk about my experience of taking part in...
How Writing Saved My Life
14 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022
I’ve always been a big reader and have often dreamed about becoming a writer, but I never imagined that writing would one day save my life.
The Journey
18 May 2020
18 May 2020
Last year, I wrote a short story for a competition by Mind, the mental health charity. The story, ‘The Journey’, was shortlisted but didn’t win any of the top prizes. Given that I wrote the story specifically for the competition, I didn’t really know what else to do with it,...
Writing 'The Journey'
07 Jun 2019
07 Jun 2019
I recently submitted a story called ‘The Journey’ to an online competition. As it was Mental Health Awareness Week recently - and the competition was run by Mind, the mental health charity - I wanted to talk a bit about the story and how I came to write it.
A tribute to Terry Pratchett
18 Mar 2015
18 Mar 2015
I don’t normally go in for this sort of thing. It seems like a lot of celebrities have passed away recently, including many who I admired or respected. Normally, however, I just think “that’s a bit sad” and try to move on, since I feel that anything I say will somehow...
In Defence of... Changing Things
18 Jun 2014
18 Jun 2014
Given my interests and line of work (i.e. the fact that I am a massive nerd), you probably won’t be surprised to know that a large number of my friends were the sort of people took great delight in pointing out (and complaining about) every little detail that was changed from...
Video Games as a Storytelling Medium
04 Nov 2013
04 Nov 2013
I wanted to take a break from my usual ranting to talk about something quite close to my heart. As part of the argument that games are (or at least can be) art, I’d like to look at something that I find particularly interesting: storytelling. In particular, I want to try...
Writing: Working with Wikis
09 Aug 2012
09 Aug 2012
As part of the process of creating the world for my story, I was working on a mini-website called the Databank, which contained information about the characters and the world. This seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was difficult to maintain and ultimately fell by the wayside....
Writing - Introduction
20 Dec 2011
20 Dec 2011
OK, this blog entry is a bit different. I thought I would share some of my experience of attempting to write a series of novels and short stories. I will probably write a few entries on this subject every-so-often with updates on my progress, but for now I’d like to share...