• This Writing Journey

    Writing ~ The Very Beginning

    Lately, I’ve been thinking about my writing journey – well, more than usual. When you get to a point in your “career”, and you’ve struggled to make a meaningful impact, you think about the choices you’ve made, and what makes you the writer you are – or perhaps a better way of putting that is not the writer you’d hoped to be. So I thought I’d chronologise my writing life, and be totally honest about it. In my head right now, that means some of it won’t be pretty. Growing up, one of my older brothers got me into reading. It started with Dennis the Menace and Peanuts comics. Three-…

  • Inside Entertainment,  TrailerWatch

    TrailerWatch: Picard ~ Season 2 Trailer

    The trailer for Picard season two dropped last week. Sigh. It features the typical Alex Kurtzman narrative device: mess up what we know on the grandest scale possible because of [REASONS], and deal with the repercussions. Here’s an overview of Kurtzman’s destructive tango through the Star Trek franchise …   Star Trek (2009) The Romulan sun spontaneously blows up. Because suns do that, you know? They don’t take millions of years to go. It happens instantaneously. A Romulan ship goes back in time and messes up the timeline. Rather than try save Romulus or convince anybody that the Romulans will need help in about 25 – 30 years, the crew…