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Second time I wrote this, accidentally closing this tab!

I need to bring some discipline to my writing, I have got four- or five short stories in various stages of completion. A couple need a little effort to get them going whilst one seems to be writing itself. I need to concentrate on one at a time!

I see  BBC2 are showing a new dramatisation of Whistle And I'll Come To You, with John Hurt. Based on the M.R. James short story Whistle And I Will Come To You, My Lad. I got the old b&w version on dvd somewhere...

Until next time.

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Not a real lot to say this week, progressed in one short story and found something I was looking for on the internet which I didn't know what it was called  for another story idea.

Also been thinking about the King Arthur legends, simply because of the series finale of Merlin on Saturday.  It's getting ridiculous that Arthur still doesn't know that Merlin is a sorceror.

I was thinking of what a modern day take on the legend would be like. Would a modern day King Arthur be a CEO of a mega-company? And his knights boardroom directors? Corporate espionage becomes open military warfare. Gives a new meaning to a hostile takeover. Perhaps Arthur would be the CEO and his knights are the corporate security troops.  Or maybe have the Arthur story set modern day or near future, post apocalyptic meltdown and Arthur fighting in a civil war, or give it a fantasy twist, aliens or genetically engineered  super soldiers.

I might be interested in watching or reading such a story, but I am not interested in writing it.  If ever I do write an Arthurian story, it would be the old armour plate type  medieval kind of setting.

And I know Star Wars was kind of based on it,  with Obi-wan being Merlin and Luke Arthur. The original, that is.

Well, that's all for today.

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Feeling good at the moment with my first short story, Circus Macabre published. Working on two or three other ideas now.

Don't really have anything else to say at the moment.

More later.

circus macabre

My first published story is now available  as a chapbook only at the moment. Circus Macabe will be avaible on Amazon sometime, but the only link I got at the moment is http://thepennydreadfulcompany.com/. I been waiting to put this up for a few weeks now. I hope to have better links up next week.

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Haven't updated in a while, anticipating news that hasn't quite delivered yet.

I got a pet tarantula last week, encased in plastic, so I don't have to feed it birds (Renfield might go crazy about that!), as it is, supposedly, a bird eating tarantula. I also ordered a scorpion in plastic (or whatever) from Amazon. Look for insect paperweights.

As you might imagine, just looking at it looking at me have given me some ideas.

I think I will call him George...

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Just writing to try and keep my blog going at least once a week.

Just plodding on basically, nothing more to report, but I hope to have more next week.

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Nothing much to say, but I have began two projects, one of which is hard science fiction with no horror overtones - yet!

By began, I mean mapping  out the stories.

I have plenty of ideas, it's just finding time to write.