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  • September26th

    How Writers Write

    Posted in: Articles, Inspiration, Writing

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  • September20th

    Holmes Sweet Holmes

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    I've been here

    I’m going to make a big claim here: Sherlock Holmes is the forerunner of Harry Potter. And of Katniss Everdeen. And of Percy Jackson, Edward Cullen and Alanna of Trebond.

    Like the other characters I’ve listed, Sherlock Holmes has leaped from the pages and become more than a fictional character. Today, we are accustomed to fans and the avidity with which they read. They love their books and the characters in them, and they aren’t content to leave them within the covers of the novels. They speculate about them, their lives, their relationships, their hopes and dreams. They extrapolate, imagining their journeys after the books end. They create pasts, fill in gaps, worry at details. They write fan fiction.

    Just as the readers of the Holmes stories did a hundred years ago. Read More | Comments

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  • September11th

    Relaxing in my library

    Posted in: Articles, History, Inspiration, Travel

    British Museum Enlightenment Room

    I lie, of course. It’s the Enlightenment Room at the British Museum. But if I had a library in my home, it’d be something like this. With ladders to reach the books on the second floor. Of course.

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  • July29th

    Why I Write Fantasy

    Posted in: Articles, Inspiration, Writing

    I write Fantasy because I’m an incurable and unabashed, romantic. I want a world where good can triumph, where virtue can be rewarded, nobility and self-sacrifice are lauded, not scorned. I want a world where honesty, loyalty and friendship are prized possessions, not causes for embarrassment. I want a world where the extraordinary is a challenge, where might is not right, where brave deeds are honoured. I want a world where horizons are unlimited, where something grand could lie on the other side of that mountain range, where adventures are waiting.

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  • July25th

    Watchingness

    Posted in: Articles, Inspiration

    I had to post a screen shot of my current watchingness, ‘Reilly, Ace of Spies’. It’s practically antique (from the early eighties?) but it’s a gem. A much younger Sam Neil having dashing adventures in the early twentieth century, getting involved in espionage, WW1, the Russian Revolution and sundry other imbroglios. Nice clothes, too.

    Nice cuff links!

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