“The summer air is hot and still, the afternoon hazy; crickets call relentlessly from among the brown grasses, and ears of corn are the same heavy, burnished gold as the late-day sun. Hawks circle in the blue-white sky overhead, and …
Book Reviews of 2021 :: Part I
Welcome to my book reviews of 2021. I just about made it to 12 books last year, and in January I began a new dayjob and training course (because I really need more qualifications) which has limited how much reading …
What’s in Your Writing Survival Kit? My Top 10 Writing Tools
Back in September 2013, I wrote this post about my “top 10 writing tools” and I recently went to link to it in answer to a question about things to go in a NaNoWriMo survival kit…. and realised how things …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – Feb + Mar 2021
“Anyone can love a thing ‘because’. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something ‘despite’: to know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss February was interesting. We …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – January 2021
“Winter fights valiantly to hold the land. The earth and the sky are grey, leaden, and heavy with the cold. But here and there, scattered like jewels in the sodden grass, the first slender tips of daffodils start up toward the growing Sun. Something in us stirs …
Book Reviews of 2020 :: Part III
Quarter Four has arrived. 2020 is close to over. My first two reviews can be found here (part 1) and here (part 2). 8 down, 4 to go for my goal of 12… Let’s see how we did. ~ November …