Author name: Rupert Ramsgate

Inventing Stuff – Archipelagos

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One of the interesting aspects of writing fiction is that, unless you decide to use existing locations, you have to invent stuff. For Books of Loukas, I decided fairly early on that although the locations would bear more than a passing resemblance to places I have visited or which I know about, I would not, except in the broadest geographical sense, use real places. Instead I would invent places, although I wanted them to be […]

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Busy working on the Update List for Book 1 of Books of Loukas

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When I completed the first draft of Books of Loukas in the Spring of 2018, I naively thought that it would be a mere matter of months before I would have a final draft ready for professional editing, and I could move on to marketing stuff like covers and suchlike. Hah. Yeah right. The first epiphany was my understanding that the first draft, as Terry Pratchett observed, is merely you telling yourself the story. That

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The World of Boobs – the BSH system

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At some point, in my past, when I found myself living with a wife who was, shall we say, highly scenic, I began to muse on the way in which I could measure the size of female breasts. There is the infamous (and, sometimes, highly misleading) system of bra cup sizes, which has gone through several iterations. The inability of the wider world to cope with the reality that some women have large scenery was

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Boobs – an appreciation

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Somebody asked the question about what men like about boobs on my Twitter feed. Not wishing to compress my thoughts into 300 or less characters, I decided to try to do this topic justice. I have been privileged to explore many different types, sizes and shapes of female scenery. It still, after many years, represents one of my great, personal, male pleasures. This is dedicated to female scenery everywhere, of all sizes and shapes. An

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Reveals of my work

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My alter ego Mr Knight and myself intend to put some of our scribblings up here in the near future. The scribblings will be in one of three formats and lengths: Vignettes          – short fragments of a larger story      500-1000 words Short Stories    – mini-adventures                                  3000-4000 words Novellas         

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