• Everything You Need to Know About Writing (According to Star Wars)

      Greetings from the edge, It’s that time of year again. The good geeks gather, bathed in the glow of their extraordinarily expensive lightsaber replicas, to celebrate all things Star Wars. No matter your feelings on the prequels’… ambitious love story, or the sequels’ enthusiastic habit of resurrecting old villains like some kind of Force-powered game…

    • Friday 24th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, I have decided to take a week (and a bit) off from blogging every day. I’m still working out what I want to do with the site in general and the blog section in particular. I’ll still be working on articles and content, but I won’t be posting daily updates for…

    • The Graveyard of Bad Ideas

      23-04-26 Greetings from the edge, I’ve been digging through my deepest, darkest of desk drawers, looking for anything worth saving from the tepid bathwater of my early attempts at fiction, and, as it turns out, there was a very good reason I shoved them into an oubliette in the first place. Every writer has one…

    • Wednesday 22nd April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Well, if you are reading this, it means I can still be found. I had a bit of a SNAFU with the web address. The way I keep the lights on here in the broom cupboard is by fixing computers. Oddly enough, being a caffeine-fuelled Gollum who rants about horror, roleplaying…

    • Tuesday 21st April 2026

      Greetings from the edge. Been digging through some old short fiction that has been mouldering in my lowest, darkest desk drawer, and, as it turns out, there is a very good reason I never came back to them.  I mean, I stand by the central ideas for some of them, but out of a dozen,…

    • Monday 20th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Still spelunking my way through On Writing by Stephen King. There is so much good information in there, and I am well aware that drip-feeding what I have learned is a bit like describing Dracula as “a bit influential” or saying Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is “quite good”. Simply…

    • Sunday 19th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, It strikes me, dear reader, that I have been exceptionally lucky when it comes to books. I have never read a truly awful one. I’m not just saying that as a mediocre writer trying to defend his brethren, although I am doing that as well. I think every single thing ever…

    • Saturday 18th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Stick a fork in me, I’m done. The article comparing the novel The Silence of the Lambs to the film is now live. It’s proofread, formatted, posted, and unleashed upon the unsuspecting public. You should check it out. I’m currently working on the first in what I hope will be a…

    • Friday 17th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, I’ve been a busy bee. I now have about half of the Silence of the Lambs article written, and I’m still ploughing my way through On Writing. At this point, it feels less like a craft book and more like Stephen King is sitting on the other side of your desk,…

    • Thursday 16th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, Deep into On Writing right now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thoroughly enjoying The Three-Body Problem, which insistently is not about the problems that arise from needing to dispose of three cadavers, and I’m also really enjoying the alien-eye view of human jingoism and bloodthirsty expansionism in The Word for World…