Well, this site has been very quiet for 3 months. There is a good reason for that. On 28th December last year I began to feel unwell, as if I had contracted influenza. After 2 days, I was running a fever yo-yoing between 99 and 102 Fahrenheit. However, the Tell that I noticed was that I had completely lost my sense of taste and smell. So, on January 6th, still with my fever yo-yoing, I […]
For as long as I have been a sentient being, I was aware that I tended to live in my head. By that I mean that I can quite happily daydream (occasionally also night-dream) myself into all manner of places and situations, and also place other people and characters in those situations. Like many people diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, I can, if I am motivated to do so, acquire enormous amounts of quite detailed information
Origins of imagination and how it works for my writing Read More »
Those people who might have been reading my warblings on here will know that I have been working on a futuristic novel series. I have just posted a vignette from one of the novels in that series as a limited-time download. Please feel free to download it and review it. All feedback appreciated.
A new download from a new novel series Read More »
The blog has been quiet for several weeks, as I have been working hard on two fronts. One is this pesky day job, which pays the bills. The other is recovering from minor surgery. That part is almost complete. The day job continues until I strike it rich with authoring or until my retirement piggy becomes large enough. I have been working on updates to the first Book of Loukas, and also sketching out chapters
Update from Rupert Read More »
From time to time, I find myself reading books that, for whatever reason, lack interest and stop engaging me. One particular type of book where this happens is autobiographies. There are a number of interlocking reasons why this can be true: The person in question is writing a hagiography, and therefore it is all “I am great and I did this” content, with nothing remotely complete, rounded, or informative about their life The person does
The disappearance of interest – autobiographies Read More »