Sorry Dorothy, but we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I’m with Thomas Wolfe on this one. There is no going home. Not is it temporally impossible barring time travel, and even then I’f not sure, but I’m becoming increasingly convinced that it’s better to not even try. Now I’m not thinking of literal homes (though …
Some of the beautiful books that once graced my shelves A couple of weeks ago on Twitter, someone asked what books people had read as children that inspired them to become writers. I replied that it was probably The Five Children and It, The Phantom Tollbooth and The Hobbit. Then I thought about for a …
A week-long holiday looms here in China. Golden Week is normally a time of travel, but with Covid restrictions still firmly in place, that’s not practical. So what’s a fantasy writer to do? Having Great Walled, Temple of Heavened, Forbidden City’ed and Summer Palaced many times before – I plan to use the hols to visit as …
It may not be the hill I’m willing to die on, but I would say that if you are at all interested in Fantasy or graphic novels and you have not have heard of writer, anarchist, dissenter, bardic wizard, prophet and die-hard Northamptonite, Alan Moore, then you either died sometime in the early 1980s (in which case, what’s …
So as I mentioned last time, I’ve been tinkering with the AI bots over at MidJourney. Mostly, for fun. But I’m also using them to create images of the characters and of some of the locations in my fantasy novel, City in the Mist. It’s a hit-and-miss process, mostly because I’ve yet to fully understand the …