Well there’s little doubt about the fact that my work in progress is going to suffer, and not flourish, under these current conditions we now find ourselves living in. I’ve seen a few posts online about people using this as an opportunity to really work on their writing, and sharing pictures of the piles and…
Tag: Stephen King
TV is where it’s at
I remember when I was younger, watching the film version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches (still bloody terrifying even now, nearly 30 years later), and wondering why Luke’s Grandma was missing her little finger rather than her thumb, as she did in the book. Why had that detail been changed, I wondered? It wasn’t until…
Making progress
Writing this blog means being honest with myself and with readers, and so I have to admit that I’m unhappy about the lack of writing I’ve done recently. I’ve done a small amount of editing, and not much actual new writing. I’m disappointed by this, and not only that, but I can feel the story…
Write with the door closed
“Write with the door closed; rewrite with the door open.” If there’s one author that cannot be ignored right now, its Stephen King. This is mainly because of the seemingly never ending list of TV and film adaptations of his work that are currently in the pipeline – from classics such as IT part 2…
Reading leading to writing
Its been a while since I’ve written a post like this, if ever – celebrating my writing achievements for the year. 2016 was the year I reignited my blog, and 2017 has been the year that I’ve really made the most of it. But not only that, I also started writing fiction again. It all…
Embracing audio
Audio books obviously aren’t a new thing, but they’re new to me. After getting a new job, which meant more driving, I realised I had become pretty sick of the radio, and in a light bulb moment I realised I could actually be listening to books instead. I had previously dismissed audio books – I…
Recommended Reads: Doctor Sleep
“The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.” When a book is as hotly anticipated as Doctor Sleep, it makes readers wonder whether it can ever possibly live up to the hype that surrounds it. There is a risk that people will…
Where art meets commerce
Throughout January I wrote several posts on the theme of adaptations, and to round it off I have found this short interview on the BBC called “The Hollywood Script Doctor.” The doctor in question is called Vincent Bruzzese, and he is the CEO of the World Wide Motion Picture Group. His job is to analyse…
Doctor Sleep arrives
Big news today for Stephen King fans – 36 years after the publication of The Shining, one of Kings most famous and well loved novels, he has finally written a follow up. Doctor Sleep picks follows Danny Torrence into adulthood – the boy who spent that fated winter in the Overlook Hotel, from which his…
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