'Tis a special Friday Flight of Fancy, dear friends!

Extracted from my current work in progress, Seven Worlds Will Collide. 'Extracted' as in 'removed'. It's a shame, I originally wrote this piece at least five years ago and it's one of my favourites. Enjoy!You won’t see hide nor hair of her again in this tale, but Mavis Suet from this end of ( Read more... )

Brothers and sisters! I have seen the light ( Read more... )

Did you think I was MIA, didyer? Hmm ( Read more... )

Day Four ( Read more... )

Be advised that the title of this post has no bearing upon the subject matter. It was just something that our dear friend Michael said last night and made is still making me giggle stupidly.Another decent day of writing; Vol 2 Draft 1 looks like a football score but the word count happily, does not. 6462 / 50000. According to my feeble calculations ( Read more... )

So about a week ago, Muggins here decided to do Nanowrimo.

I think most people who've been around the Internet block have heard of Nanowrimo. National Novel Writing Month was begun by certified delightful loon Chris Baty back in 200-some-odd. The time is the entire month of November, when a globally strewn bunch of the slightly deranged who like ( Read more... )

The magnificent Madame Guillotine has been writing a series of blogs about fanciable historical fiction characters as portrayed on TV and in films, and y'know: I think there's room for an SF Heroes one too.

I can't help it; I'm all hormonal in a good way and here's the way to express it!

The All-Time Number One has to be the young Harrison Ford ( Read more... )

With reference to Philip Larkin's infamous This Be The Verse, and a tip of the soft-crowned fedora to Adrian Mitchell's delightful This Be The Worst, I give you...

These Be The Hormones by Me, Leonie Smith.
With fervent apologies and grateful thanks to that loveable old git, Philip Larkin.They fuck you up, your hormones do ( Read more... )

A word to the wise ( Read more... )

So how long is since I last posted? Looks like 3 weeks as the last posted entry is dated the day I missed my first Citalopram ( Read more... )