Threads of Aether
Archive for May, 2010
Query me this, Batman
So yeah. Queries. The bane of my existence. As I get to the end of the second draft of the Novel, I realise I have to start thinking about queries. At some point I’ll have to get an agent interested in selling it if I’m ever going to see it in print. So it follows [...]
Fight Music
Writing fantasy usually means writing a certain amount of fight scenes, it seems. Writing fantasy action adventure means that times ten. I love it, really. If I could write action movies for a living, I would in a heartbeat. I love epic fights, and huge odds, and danger and excitement. Every time I send my [...]
Prince of Persia: Assassin’s Creed
Or so my better half calls it. He’s not far wrong; the movie is full of the kind of crazy acrobatics that Altair got up to in the game, but in fairness, Prince of Persia did it first. I personally like to call it Prince of Persia: Look at Jake Gyllenhaal, Isn’t He Sexy. I [...]
Late night or early morning?
Damn, I’m tired. Having insomnia naturally means that I have nothing better to do other than blog about it, tweet about it, and then putz around on the Internet rather than actually getting some tea or something and getting back to bed. I’m yawning, so I must be tired, but it doesn’t feel like a [...]
Roll for Initiative
So, my hardback copy of Into the Wild Nerd Yonder arrived and I started to read it when I got home from work today. I did my usual speed reading thing and finished it in just shy of two and a half hours. The first thing I’m asking myself right now is whether I’m even [...]
My eyes, the goggles do nothing!
So, I was curious today to learn what jobs there are for graphic designers around Ireland. Now that I’ve had a chance to play around with CS5, I’m itching to do some design work – maybe do a little more with the blog, or just play around with illustration tutorials. I love good design. I [...]
Writing for a living
I’ve been looking around recently for a second, writing related job. It may surprise you to know, dear reader, that my daily grind does not include anything writing-related; I work for a very boring distribution company, and the kind of work I do involves anything from graphic design to database administration. Writing has always been [...]
Even bad publicity is good?
The Hunky Dory ad campaign running lately has been getting a lot of attention in the news. The Rape Crisis Network of Ireland and the Advertising Authority of Ireland, for example, have voiced their disapproval, and a storm of criticism has drifted around the Irish spheres of social networking and blogs. Quoth the IRFU marketing [...]
"I have a dream"
I was thinking recently on the books that really influenced me when I was younger. I generally don’t count the books I enjoyed among them; we may all have liked the Famous Five, for example, but those kinds of books were throwaway for me, to be read and liked and then forgotten. The books that [...]
Where you do your thinking
Right, this blog is supposed to be primarily about writing, not about my love of fast cars. … One of the reasons I really like driving is because I can think while I drive. That is to say, I like to drive and think alone; having another person in the car with me puts me [...]
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