The other day I was adding some notes to my Mirabilis plot summary. I have a good 15,000 words now, as well as the full scripts for the fir...

In Bright Young Things (Stephen Fry’s adaptation of Vile Bodies ), the protagonist Adam arrives at Dover and in a scene played for broad f...

The recent announcement that the James Bond books are being reissued in versions edited by sensitivity readers provides us with a simple and...

"Right from the beginning I said, 'She's got to have tits,' even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi...

There’s been a lot of talk lately of MCU style writing, meaning the kind of quip-filled dialogue which doesn’t take the story seriously. Cha...

Darth Vader did it. Then the Green Goblin . Now even Sauron has got in on the act. It’s one of the oldest tropes (or should that be clichés...

Funny how things get dredged up. I recently got to thinking about a very old idea of mine. I’ll tell you a bit later what jogged my memory....