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The Bizarre Truth About Athletes
So here’s something weird I learned recently: elite athletes are generally asymmetric. For some reason, I find this surprising. I always thought that being good at something implied a kind of physical perfection and physical perfection always struck me as meaning you had the same perfect form on both sides. For example, if you… Read more
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Working on a new book with a new theory
Today, I have a new theory about plot. Succinctly stated, it goes like this: There are only three questions that can hook the reader: what’s happened, what’s happening and what’s going to happen next? It goes along with a new theory of what questions engage readers with character: who are they, why are they like… Read more
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Post-Olympic Depression
OK, so the Olympics are over and we’re into the endless analysis by our endlessly illogical media who wouldn’t recognise either truth or rationality if it turned into a dog and bit them in the street. Usually, I ignore all this, but this time it’s got my heckles up. Time to man up before the… Read more
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Orthogonate Maths
Just putting the finishing touches to a chapter of my latest project, the Time Traders and stumbled upon this interesting definition: “Orthogonate Maths is the branch of mathematics in which all new quantities are assumed to exist in their own dimension, orthogonal (i.e. at ninety-degrees) to all other dimensions. Thus Orthogonate Maths applies Pythagoras’s Theorum… Read more
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Middle Stanley
Just come back from a wonderful weekend at Middle Stanley Farm on a writers retreat with my inspiring colleagues from Leicester Writers’ Club. Two and a half days of eating, talking and writing amongst good company and the background of the Cotswolds. Even the weather couldn’t dampen the proceedings, though it had a damn good go… Read more
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Kindles- Good or Bad?
I’ve been thinking about the publishing revolution all over again. Is it good that suddenly there’s a huge flood of more information available? Is it even information when so much of it is freely available with no sort of editorial control? As Carraway once said (In Forged Truth), “The growth in available information produces the… Read more
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