Today I’m celebrating the launch of Trent Jamieson’s book Death Most Definite, published by Orbit, part of the Death Works trilogy.
Here is the trailer.
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Tren’t s book is set in Brisbane with a quirky hero and an off beat premise. It’s a refreshing take on Dark Urban Fantasy.
Go Trent!
Kate over at the Mad Genius Club Shared Blog accused me of being irrepressibly happy (in the nicest possible way). I just can’t help it. Don’t worry, I also have a very black sense of humour. It is how I maintain an even keel.
A scientific study has proven that thinking positive thoughts, eating fruit and veg and reading turn out be the best way to avoide dementia. (See full article here).
They followed 1,433 pensioners for 7 years and studied their habits. And they found:
‘Those with lower reading scores were 18 per cent more likely to develop “mild cognitive impairment or dementia” – the former widely seen as a forerunner of the latter.
Those with depression were 10 per cent more likely to develop it; while those who ate fruit and vegetables less than twice a day were 6.5 per cent more likely to do so.’
So reading was the single factor that contributed towards maintaining mental acuity. There you are. Go out, buy books, keep mentally active. And support writers. I do!
Filed under Fun Stuff, Nourish the Writer, The World in all its Absurdity
Woke up this morning with the realisation that the wonderful twist that I’d added to my book yesterday would not work with the way I’d written the climax of the book.
Except I really like the twist because it adds layers to the characterisation and makes the character tortured. I do believe in making characters suffer.
Then had to go to work. Jumped on the train and it promptly broke down. Had to get into work to do a midday lecture. Had left extra early to get a lot of things done before the lecture. Finally got to the city. Had to literally run from the train station to the college to get to the lecture on time.
Worked like mad all day, trying to make up for lost time. Got through everything, then dashed to the train station and just made it down onto the platform to catch the train home only to discover the train had been sitting there for 45 minute already. Two hours later, after giving up and getting out 3 stations from the city with another10 to go, my DH picked me and drove me home.
All told I spent 4 hours sitting on trains and train stations getting to and from work when it should have been a total of 1 hour.
But I did come up with a way to use the twist and add another deeper layer which will make the character suffer even more. Take that, Queensland Rail!
Filed under Characterisation, Writing craft
I just went to see the Inception movie. The premise is that someone can enter your dreams and they can construct dreams which feel so real, you don’t know you’re dreaming. In the movie they use this to steal information or plant ideas.
Listening to them talk about this kind of dreaming made me realise that writers do this all the time. In fact, we’d do it all day long, every day if the rest of the world would let us. For us the dream (our stories) is more real than reality. Otherwise why would keep coming back to write?
I saw this article which said that gamers, if they play games directly before going to bed, they can control their dreams to a certain extent.
Well, isn’t that what writers are doing all the time? When we are ‘in the zone’ we are lucid dreaming. The only thing that holds us back is the speed we can type at.
Inception was good. I liked the layers of the story and some of the visuals were breathtaking. I liked the main character’s motivation and it was a change for a movie to have a happy ending. Or was it?
Did you sit through all the credits like I did to find out if the top stopped spinning?
Filed under creativity, Fun Stuff, Genre, Movies & TV Shows, Writing craft
The internet is wonderful in that it brings you the world in all its absurdity. There’s this site called Overclockers.com.au, each week they collect bizarre photos. Here are two from this week’s collection.
They must have used magnetic scrabble.
And wouldn’t you know it, the bridge was too low. Typical.
I’m always looking for weird obscure things about people, plants and animals. The world’s a fascinating place.
Filed under Fun Stuff, Nourish the Writer, The World in all its Absurdity
