Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Cage Bouts are six rounds between three contestants. Again, you read the three pieces (each under 500 words) and vote for the one you want to win. These run from Monday (today) to Saturday, and voting closes six days later,
The SpaceTime Reading Challenge has been underway for three months. How are you doing? Leave an update in the comments, or on your blog. If you do it on your blog, please leave a link to your post in the
Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge opens today! It’s the tenth year, and I’ve done seven of them. You can sign in here. What is blogging from A to Z? A post every day of the month except
J Lenni Dorner is my last guest for the AtoZ Challenge Book Review Blog Tour, which is part of the AtoZ’s tenth birthday celebrations. His book is yet to be published, and the posts will be part of his April
Achievements of 2018 and Targets for 2019. It’s obligatory, really. And it’s going to be bullet-point mainly, with links to other places for more detail. All I can add is that I’ve been working really hard over Christmas to get
SpaceTime Launch! Searching for a Science Fiction Reading Challenge? I have been for years. I find some with lists of classic or ‘new classic’ books to read, but I’ve either done those or rejected them for good reasons! The answer?
2019 reading challenges beckon. It’s only a month away. Blog posts for December are mostly written, and the rest are planned. 2018 reading challenges approach their last gasp. If I don’t read the books on my ‘currently reading’ by the
It’s my reading challenge update for the third quarter – end of September. Three-quarters of the way through the year already. Oh heck. I begin to wonder why I do reading challenges. I know it helps me prioritise what I
Although time for editing isn’t the question of the month for the Insecure Writers Support Group this month, I thought you’d be happy to know I’ve finally got my editing hat back on. September was incredibly busy, and October looks
Well, I’m all done for another year! I’ve ‘won’ Camp NanoWriMo by completing my goal of editing Curved Space to Corsair, in over 80,000 words (88,000 approximately). And I have the badge to prove it! I’ve also started work on
My Reading Challenge list should be halfway through its targets, since it’s halfway through the year. Let’s find out if we’re on track. Goodreads Reading Challenge Target: 52 for the year, read 34. 8 ahead of schedule. This is where
Book titles or character names, which gives you more difficulty? The question for the June Insecure Writers Support Group completely slipped my mind, I was so intent on my 30 Days Wild challenge. So I’m doing it for the Fourth
30 Days Wild is more difficult than the AtoZ Challenge. That’s my first thought, and it’s because I need to do many of the actions only a day or two before I post about them. My second thought occurred halfway
Read a Wild Book was one of my aims this month. I mainly read The Saffron Trail, which was fairly wild, but not what I had in mind for a wild book. My BTO magazine this month had some more
Winterton Dunes have featured in my life for the last ten years at least. I arrived in Norfolk in 2006, and may have visited them that summer. It was not until the BTO surveys for the Bird Atlas (2007-2011) that