ideas | ideas
Jun.21.2012
Aristotle once wrote (and here I'm paraphrasing, but only slightly) that all writing should either entertain or inform. The thing that bugs me these days is that there's more journalistic entertaining going on than informing, and a lot of this entertainment poses as news. Information. Reportage....
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May.26.2012
Had more nocturnal dreams with the white robed man last night. He taught me more although the lessons' details all escape recollection. The best I can remember is that he said something to me about Crohn's disease. I don't know if he was trying to tell me that I or someone else had it or he was...
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Apr.24.2012
the grass turned rust with congealed blood nothing could grow in it nothing could die dead blood is a lie a little must have seeped into the soil where millions toil for harvest for freedom unseen chains on ankles and wrists destiny's tryst was this
Hey Ram
body slumped on the ground people...
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Apr.23.2012
My fictional detective, DI Andy Horton, is based in the Solent area and the Horton marine mystery crime novels include members of a fictional Hampshire Police Marine Unit - Sergeant Dai Elkins and PC Ripley who are nothing like the two police officers I introduced on Saturday from the team...
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Apr.12.2012
"All I was trying to do was get home from work."- Rosa Parks
Back in the day they knew how to build a woman. For instance there was Joy. I would see her around the Chicago Seed office, but I didn't know her very well. She had a shock of wild kinky hair that floated over her like a...
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Mar.17.2012
Any book that is written is an expression of the writer's own delusion and fantasy. Dialectic or non-dialectic ideas are either functional or not functional, depending on the contrived needs of the moment. That is also why it makes no difference if there is war or peace, hunger or plenty, good or...
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Mar.09.2012
Here is a list of articles about my writing and the DI Horton series and my thrillers in response to questions often posed by readers. You can follow the links through to the articles on my website.
Where do you get your ideas from?
How long does it take to write a crime novel?
On average...
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Mar.07.2012
Originally posted 15 January 2012...
For every person, there's something in the world that is a symbol for what they want from life. Be it a physical thing, a thought, a piece of media, whatever, when you look at it or think about it, you think about all the hopes and dreams you harbor and wish...
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Mar.07.2012
Originally posted 01 January 2012...
It's the same every year: you arrive at the family get-together only to be bombarded with the same half-a-dozen questions over and over and over. By the time the night is over, you can summarise the past year in 25 words or less. It's times like these where I...
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Mar.07.2012
Originally written 21 December 2011...
Tradition (n): a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting. (dictionary.com)
I've never been a terribly big fan of tradition. Few things in my life born of tradition mean something to me personally. Examples of those that do, however, include...
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