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Period Pieces: To “Road Trip” or Not to “Road Trip”?
Part of the Via Appia – the road leading north out of Rome wikimedia.org I have hit the first proverbial brick wall in my Romans Vs Aliens novel and though it is not about the content, it is about how...
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Origins of the English Language: Invaders from the North
The eye-opening extent of Viking globe-trotting wikimedia.org This is the second part in my series and it’s only taken me a year to write it! It look at the impact of the Vikings on England...
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Character Growth: The Life Blood of Your book
As I look back over some of the books I have read, films and TV I have seen, I find that the characters who stick most in my mind are those who undergo the most profound change – and not necessarily...
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Using all of your senses 3 – Smell and Taste
mgm75:Sharing this from the archives thanks to a relevant daily post blog. Originally posted on Sweat, Tears and Digital Ink: Smells and the description of odours can be used to good effect in fiction...
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Great Story Telling in Video Games: Assassin’s Creed Part 1
Dr. Vidic: What if I told you the human body not only housed the individual’s memory, but the memory of his ancestors as well? Genetic memory, if you will. Migration, hibernation, reproduction. How do...
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Great Story Telling in Video Games: Assassin’s Creed Part 2
“Requiescat in Pace” This is the second part of my my Assassin’s Creed summary. Part 1 is here; I recommend you read that first for a summary of the ongoing story. As you can see, the story is pretty...
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Pause to Reflect: 1914
Today in 1914 saw the beginning of what was supposed to be the war to end all wars, The Great War or as it would be called later – World War I. It would go on to claim the lives of over 37 million...
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Of Sins and Villains
An interesting daily post today but I am going to go slightly off topic here and suggest one favourite villain for each of the seven sins before suggesting my own eighth sin. We love our villains,...
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Social Commentary in science fiction: How it changed after 9/11
mgm75:With the problems in the Middle East of ISIS, I think it is pertinent to repost this now, an article I originally wrote three years ago on the 10th anniversary. Originally posted on Sweat, Tears...
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Figurative Speech: Hyperbole and Meiosis
It’s often hard to present the idea that language studies and linguistics can be fun or funny, but when we look at issues like syntactic ambiguity we can see that it can be. I’m starting a new series,...
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