So after a pleasant Saturday watching the Harry potter years 1-4, I retired early in the evening to rise bright and early for the next three years covered in four films. We started fairly close to on time, something I consider to be quite remarkable, diving into Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix. Continue reading
So this weekend as my Harry PotterMarathonWeekend. ON Saturday we watch the first four film and on Sunday my Friends, Sweetie-wife, and I finished by watching the final four films. Each day it was about a ten hour journey watching the movies and each day presented its own unique challenges and disruptions. Continue reading
I’m not going to discuss using names a symbolic clue as to the nature of a character or story, though that is an important and very difficult aspect to naming things for an author. Instead I’m going to rant a bit about something that irritates me endlessly.
I hate it when a writer, or writers, skip out on naming something that really should have a name. This happens most often in film and television, but the unforced error can occur in any kind of writing, regardless of medium or genre. Continue reading
For this week I have been working with a new piece of software as I work on my new novel, Command and Control. This software package, Scriveners has been developed as a tool for writers, particularly of novels. It is much more than just a word processing program, but it is a tool for collating and organizing the data that you can generate when writing your tome. Continue reading
The second book of the Parasol Protectorate Series finds Alexia, now Lady Maccon, 
happily married and settling into the routine of a wife to a man who is a Scots, a Lord, and a werewolf. Continue reading
We are rapidly approaching an interesting time in human history, the moment when our phonotypical nature becomes utterly under our control. Right now we have limited ability to alter our appearance. We can dye our hair, insert inert implants to alter our shape, to an extent, suction away fat cells, and it a limited degree we can even dye our skin, altering the appearance of our pigmentation. This is as crude as the amputations and drugs used by the ship board doctors of the 18th century compared to what I think is coming in our near future. A future so near that I expect to survive to see it. The moment when we have enough genetic knowledge and control that switching on and off with ease and control will become available to the local physician and practiced upon the general population. Continue reading
This weekend I will not be watching a Sunday Night Movie feature. (which is apparently the number driver of traffic to this blog.) Instead I will be hosting a Harry Potter weekend. All eight Harry Potter films, screened over two days. I picked up the blu-ray of all the film in November and now I going to watch the series over the weekend. I have friends coming over and my dear sweetie wife is talking about making us chili. (Because I have no tolerance for spicy food this has become known as Bob’s False Alarm Chili.) Continue reading