SF writer and software engineer.
#Languages, #science, #writing. he or they (shrug)
Glasgow Writers Group and Glasgow SF Writers' Circle.
It's sometimes […]
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The Roman emperor Commodus put unqualified but loyal minions in charge of running the government, while massively diverting public funds to his own pocket, and obsessively naming things after himself.
So history is like that sometimes. Funny that.
Probably won't happen in a bath this time […]
#WritersCoffeeClub 9 Jun
Have you ever written something which later turned out to be a little too on the nose?
If anything, I tend to be too indirect or even obscure. I legit wrote a murder story where the main mystery is the murder weapon, and didn't reveal it explicitly.
Readers, your nose […]
#WordWeavers 8. Does your MC have strengths that others see as weaknesses?
That's a weird concept to me. A strength is a capability. Someone else could see a capability as not very useful, but that doesn't make it a weakness, just an irrelevant strength.
If a guy can pick up a car with actual […]
You're not supposed to feed the seagulls in the city because then they'll pester people for food.
But I like dinosaurs more than I like strangers.
