Showing posts with label Alien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alien. Show all posts

Thursday, 31 December 2020

My 2020

What a year we've had.

I haven't been as prolific as in previous years, but I have been looking after a one year old, which for the record is much more difficult than looking after a baby. With 'the terrible two's' just around the corner I'm not expecting it to get any easier any time soon, but I refuse to give myself a hard time over it.

2020 has undeniably been a challenge for all of us. Just getting through it seems like an achievement in itself.

I conceived of a documentary about the effects of the Covid 19 lockdown on a small Yorkshire village that became Carleton In Lockdown.


I managed to write some articles for Hero Collector, but so far only four have seen the light of day: Aliens: A History In Comics, Predator Comics Crossovers, James Bond: Top Ten Car Chases and 2021: The Year Ahead. I have some others are due to be published later.
Outside In Trusts No One was published containing my article, Neighborhood Watch.


I've written for several future Outside In volumes and a couple of comics collections, but more news on those as and when they are published.

I also have a new project which begins the day after tomorrow, but more news on that the day after tomorrow...

Tuesday, 25 August 2020

Twitter Twatter #86

Second half of July 2020:

Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Insecure Writer's Support Group #8

It's time for the Insecure Writer's Support Group again. You can sign up here. This time it's co-hosted by Susan Baury Rouchard, Nancy Gideon, Jennifer Lane, Jennifer Hawes, Chemist Ken and Chrys Fey.

This been a good month.

I started putting articles on Medium, the documentary I was working on was released, I wrote an article about Aliens comics, another about the pilot episodes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series and I'm halfway through a novel pitch I'm really enjoying writing.

Time is still a pressure, but as lockdown has eased, I have been able to gain some writing time.

This month's (optional) question:
Quote: "Although I have written a short story collection, the form found me and not the other way around. Don't write short stories, novels or poems. Just write your truth and your stories will mold into the shapes they need to be."

Have you ever written a piece that became a form, or even a genre, you hadn't planned on writing in? Or do you choose a form/genre in advance?

I have set out to write a comedy sketch and written something far more serious. That sounds like I wrote something and it just wasn't funny so I tried to pass it off as tragedy instead, which isn't true, but might account for a lot of the scripts I've read.

I've tried to write first person and accidentally slipped into third. I love reading things in the first person, but writing them doesn't come naturally to me. It should be easy, but the best examples of the style use subtext in a way to tell the reader what other characters beside our protagonist are thinking and feeling without telling us what other characters beside our protagonist are thinking and feeling. It sounds so much easier than it is.

I wrote some gags for a wedding speech that I'm hoping to use somewhere else down the line.

Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Nightmares In Sequential Panels

Following the success of Aliens, the Xenomorph made its insidious way into comics. Some were terrifying, some were gory, some were funny, all were distinctive.

Marvel has recently taken up the licence to publish Aliens comics, so I wrote this for Hero Collector about the history of the Aliens comics so far. It has the catchy title - Aliens: A History In Comics.



Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Twitter Twatter #82

April 2020 on Twitter:











































































































Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Twitter Twatter #81

March 2020 on Twitter: