It is a truth universally accepted that celebrities write the best books. Thank goodness there are lots of film stars, TV presenters, politicians and sportspeople all willing to put their names to these things; otherwise our bookshelves will be awash with new ideas, voices and original content. The average struggling author doesn’t get a look …
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Humanity @ 13% – Chapter One (six of six)
‘I feel sick,’ Rosie said. ‘And it hurts when I breathe. What’s wrong with me?’ ‘You’ve been diagnosed with Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease.’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘It doesn’t matter because that’s not what you have.’ ‘It isn’t?’ ‘No, the doctors believe that your respiratory system has had a severe reaction to the nitrogen oxides in the …
Humanity @ 13% – Chapter One (five of six)
Nurses came and went. They wore blue uniforms and mostly revolved around a chaotic, unorganised desk, littered with papers and folders. What I assumed to be a doctor appeared, and she was immediately surrounded by an explosion of activity, as the nurses and other staff vied for her attention. I gathered from the exasperated whispers …
Character Arcs
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com All stories have one thing in common — something has to happen to someone. The more interesting the happening, and the more relatable the character, the better the story. This is obvious but I’m saying it in case you thought this post was about Noah's ark, the biblical saviour …
Monsters
I love monsters. Street art in Berlin They are everything you fear and all that you hate, poured into vile-veined bodies, with skin and bone and tentacle. With slavering jaws, salacious with drool, and gouging, defiling claws. Put your pent up angst into a judiciously described creature, and you have a monster on your hands. …
Existential Alien Horror
It’s not as bad as it seems Photo by David Fagundes on Pexels.com Aliens, horror, and existentialism are perfect bed-fellows, and as a literary combination, they take some beating. Existentialists believe that we’re born without purpose into a world that makes no sense, a world without meaning, where god herself is dead, and there’s generally …
Villains
Picture: street art in Berlin It takes a special sort of character to be a villain. We expect them to be the counterweight to the hero, to provide the sense of menace and jeopardy and to use their dark light to reveal hidden peices of the plot. All this whilst avoiding cliché and at the …
David J Harrison 