Statistics mean sod all, which is a fact in itself. Anyone can assemble some numbers, make them sound threatening, and anyone will believe it.
I have just found an ad for nationalregistry.com to do a Free Registered Sex Offenders Search in my area. Just insert Zip code. The line they’re pushing […]

Gabe is going to alternate between a linear plot and flashbacks to create a detailed character profile of the protagonist in Dolls. Except, a lot less boring than that just sounded.
This is one of those flashbacks, which I’m sticking up because this is a writer’s blog and I haven’t put writing up in […]

Augusten Burroughs made me understand what it was to have a ‘favourite’ author.  I hadn’t had one before - lots I liked but none whom I’d single out above all others and pick their books for a desert island over a hair brush.  ’Dry’ is what got me hooked.
Autobiographical, it follows his being forced into […]

The Times review by Chris Ayres
 
You learn a lot from lunch with Chuck Palahniuk. For example, I now know that Adolf Hilter invented the blow-up sex doll. True fact, apparently. While the soon-to-be Führer was working as a messenger between the trenches in the First World War, he was appalled to see his fellow Aryans […]

Apparently I’ve been on a mission to injure myself over the last week (unintentionally) and now my index and middle fingers on my left hand encased in an inch of dressing.  Going to A&E with a burn is a lot worse than going with a broken wrist.
So, typing has become an exercise in patience and […]

I can officially say I’m an artist now as I’ve sold my first painting.

Excuse the rubbish picture.
Out of the lot I put in the comic book shop, I had hoped Rorschach would go first.

Reviewing this particular graphic novel is tough.  It’s so famous and acclaimed that a lot of reviews, essays and poorly spelled praises have already been written about it.  There are also the rules that surround it.
1. When reading Watchmen, restrict to one chapter a night.
2. When telling someone who hasn’t read Watchmen about it, you […]

It’s Sunday the 29th of June and I’m only a quarter of the way through this book, but I’ve got to start this review now. Palahniuk is a writer who’s just too good to be legal. He’s very much a scrapbook writer, taking bits of stories from annecdotes and events across his […]