Month: April 2008

Poetry’s another aspect I’d like to develop. I can usually turn out Haiku but my output there often seems a little mechanical. With poetry, the engineer part of me interferes even more.

Maybe I’m just hunting for the right inspiration 🙂 Be that subject, situation or even person 😉
(some of my better essays in English at school were inspired by me trying to show off to a Porsche driving summer dress wearing hottie)

I have another blog where I write poetry. I started as a story writer but somehere down the line discovered the poet within myself!

Michele sent me here for M & G!

Been thinking of doing a little writing for quite some time now. I have the blog here which gets little snippets of my life added to it every once in a while. However, real life seems rather mundane. I’d rather write about fun stuff, little bit of tension, some excitement and some fun with strong characters interacting with each other, which leads me to fiction.

The stories would have to be in another blog though … I think I’d struggle to get one out every day and the flow would be disrupted if there was a Thursday Thirteen in the middle of the continuing adventures of Keela and the Gang. I reckon a Wordless Wednesday might fit though 🙂

Thing is, what’s daunting me about it is the world in which it would live. The best stories will be consistent with each other, which usually means a Plan that the reader doesn’t see, except as directed by the author. Maybe a few short ones unconnected to a wider whole first. The D&D and Warhammer groups give very good material there, although you have to be careful of copyright because most role play adventures come from pre-prepared books.

Doctor Who at the moment – now there’s an example of a series of short stories 🙂 I was impressed with Season 1 of the new Dr Who, it fit together its episodes fairly well, with various things getting set up as they went through. Dinner bell too … time to rescue it before it turns to cinders.

This post coming to you via the Friday Fill Ins site 🙂 Been a weird week this one because I’ve been

This post coming to you via the Friday Fill Ins site 🙂 Been a weird week this one because I’ve been hit by bugs that should have knocked me flat over the first couple of days of it. I refused to knuckle under though, just kept on plowing on powered by coffee, pepsi max and mars bars. Think I’ll need a decent bit of sleep tomorrow to catch up.

Anyway – time for that Friday Fill in 🙂

1. I love springtime in the UK, means plenty of cricket to watch !
2. Toast and Bacon Sarnies are foods I love to eat for breakfast.
3. It seems I’m always searching for companionship and intelligent conversation
4. One last trip around the blogs is a great way to end the day.
5. I think I should get back in the habit of drinking orange juice, might keep the colds away !
6. More Pocket Dragons is what I’ve been craving lately.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to chilling out with music and muted golf commentators, tomorrow my plans include having a long restorative sleep 🙂 and Sunday, I want to maybe have a look at the fence panel and the satellite dish that’s not too happy at the moment !

I never thought of it as witnessing a revolution but carmi is right.

my son had Nintendo games and recently remarked that he’s “amazed” at some of the stuff out there now and that it made him feel “old’

wow – I’m the mother of something old OY!

Aye – cos we’ve been in at the start, we’ve been able to watch how they’ve steadily improved the moving image bit by bit (pixel by pixel?) with small steps.

It was weird watching Beowulf, for the first few minutes we really weren’t sure whether what was on the big screen was real or animation. The first travelling camera shot gave it away 🙂

It absolutely blows me away how far the state of the art has advanced in such a short amount of time. I remember the first time I loaded Flight Simulator on an Apple IIe (yup, I’m dating myself…). It was little more than stick graphics on a green screen. But the concept was incredible, and as I took off and climbed out, I felt like we were on the verge of something transformational.

Fast forward to today and often I can’t tell the difference between animation and reality. It’s a privilege to be able to witness this revolution.

2 pictures today … This is “then”, a screenie from 1984 of a ship approaching a space station. It’s from the Wikipedia entry for Elite.

This is “now”, or more precisely a couple of weeks ago while I was moving stuff around.

Eve Trinity is pretty 🙂

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to hear someone else say that! Let the woman rest in peace! (And thanks for popping in – more on mine in the next day or two)