What do horror films and sitcoms have in common?
I was chatting to somebody about this on Facebook the other day and realised I don't think I've ever blogged about it before (if I have, I'm sorry). So here goes. One thing that horror films and...
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The Second Realm 7.1: Lights in the Dark
First Episode - Previous Episode - Season 1 Hub - Season 2 Hub - Season 3 Hub - Smashwords (all major ebook formats, pay what you like)Innocent and Incomplete1. Lights in the DarkChag tried to sneak...
View ArticleWords that confuse me: 'liberal'
Growing up in the UK in the 90s and 00s, the Liberal Democrat Party was the main option for left-wing voters who didn't trust Tony Blair's 'New' Labour Party. Though (or perhaps because they were)...
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Wellll... *something* is definitely working...
I like graphs:That's the graph (which has appeared severaltimesbefore on this blog) of downloads of Second Realm episodes on Smashwords. Each data point is a week, and I've been tracking since late May...
View ArticleThe Iron is Cooling...
What do you do when you're running up against a deadline and you can't get into the right headspace for writing?I've had a brilliant start to the year. As I discussed last time out, numbers are up...
View ArticleThings that are finally over...
I promise, after this, I've only got one more post to do where I'm griping about my doctorate...In happier news, it is at least over. I've just had the email from my internal examiner confirming that I...
View ArticleA creature of habit
The next episode of The Second Realm still has no release date. What this means, really, is that I've been a laughably ineffectual writer over the last four months, and it's time to make some...
View ArticleGraduation
So, I was going to leave talking about graduation ceremonies and why I don't like them until I was due to graduate (which is to say, July), but then I realised that putting up a blog post saying...
View ArticleThings that confuse me: clothing
How and why do you choose what to wear? I don't pretend much interest in fashion, but I'm weirdly obsessed with this question. I think I've blogged about it before in the context of a discussion about...
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The Second Realm 7.2: Burning in the Home Fires
First Episode - Previous Episode - Season 1 Hub - Season 2 Hub - Season 3 Hub - Smashwords (all major ebook formats, pay what you like)Innocent and Incomplete2. Burning in the Home Fires"We don't think...
View ArticleLife choices
My day-jobs both involve working for universities, so my employment year is defined not by the tax year or the calendar year, but by the academic year. Universities operate a pretty minimal version of...
View ArticleYou can't be inclusive and have fun, apparently.
So I was going to blog today about how half the political parties listed on the ballot for the European Parliament elections we had on Thursday were one-issue anti-Europe parties (a situation so...
View Article'Ownership' of a tragedy
There are at least three major political topics involved in the discussion that has followed the mass shooting last week in Isla Vista, California; gun violence, violence against women, and the link...
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The Second Realm 7.3: Three Small Words
First Episode - Previous Episode - Season 1 Hub - Season 2 Hub - Season 3 Hub - Smashwords (all major ebook formats, pay what you like) Cover photo creditInnocent and Incomplete3. Three Small...
View ArticleMy (non-)Childhood
I get told quite a lot that I didn't have a childhood. Usually what this means is that I didn't play Pokemon (a subject so touchy for me that it will get its own blog post, possibly next week) and I...
View ArticleThe Idea of Dying Young
I turn 27 on Friday (yes, Friday 13th - I was actually born on a Saturday, though, which I think makes me the devil's nephew rather than his son ;) ), and as a huge fan of The Doors and Nirvana, I...
View ArticleMy Literary Hero
A couple of weeks ago, one of those Facebook things went round my writer friends, something like 'Authors celebrating authors day'. The idea was to put a photo of your favourite author as your profile...
View ArticleFear of Starting
Those of you who are following The Second Realm (thank you! <3) may have noticed that it's not exactly been going smoothly in the first half of this year. There have been a series of delays in the...
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The Second Realm 7.4: Homeward Bound
First Episode - Previous Episode - Season 1 Hub - Season 2 Hub - Season 3 Hub - Smashwords (all major ebook formats, pay what you like) Innocent and Incomplete4. Homeward BoundAtla came awake gasping....
View ArticleBlog Topics
I'm starting to run out of things to blog about. Or at least, I'm starting to struggle to think of new topics again. I have a couple of half-ideas knocking around, and if nothing else comes up I'm sure...
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