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In the excitement of Disney Infinity and Day Of The Doctor, I forgot to mention that I completed my Nano 2013 story four days ago - coming in around 58,000 words. So once again, after having to restart the story after around 2,000 words, I have finished my story ten days early, five days bef...

Week 2 has gone a great deal better than week 1. Firstly because it was longer, secondly because I have not had to abandon my story and start another, and thirdly because I actually have a fair idea where the story is going and possibly even how to get it there. It has lead to me…

So the first - very short - week of National Novel Writing Month, 2013, is over. It has already proved to be as chaotic as last year, but at least this time it did not take me quite so long to realise I was never going to finish the novel I had started. Last year…

Last year I started one story, scrapped it eight days later, started a brand new one the next day and completed it twenty days later. This year I am hoping for a slightly easier time :) THE INTERVIEW Emily Brown goes for a job interview at DWP. A story of love, loss, drama, the inherent...

Following my entry about Ginny and Bella, I got to thinking about the other major heroines in youth fiction. Well, some youth fiction. Well, mostly Harry Potter, Twilight and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. (I also originally contemplated Charmed and Xena, but they are a little older than the majority ...

I am really not sure what people have against The Twilight Saga. I think most of their problems with it come from “the sparkly vampire” issue – they think sparkly vampires are stupid, and so the whole film series must be stupid. But if you actually look at the series as a whole ...

I originally wrote this  just over two years ago (wow - longer than I thought!), and decided to repost it having watched both series of movies quite recently. This is the first in a series of three entries that examine (to one degree or another) "female role models" that young...

Six months ago, at this very moment, I was sleeping in a single bed. My girlfriend was sleeping on a mattress on the floor  at the end of the bed. We were in a room in The Heart Hospital, London, and I was around ten hours away from a porter taking me down to the operating…

For reasons that I have no real desire to explain, I am entirely done with Twitter. So where as before I would go on there and rant about the dumb-ass politics this world seems to be drowning in, or about the utter moronity (which I am pretty sure is not actually a word, and n...

Daria Morgendorffer grew up in a town called Highland, Texas. However at some point, she and her family (father Jake, mother Helen and younger sister Quinn) moved to Lawndale, possibly because Highland was not the best place to raise children, but equally possibly because Helen (a lawyer) got a n...