Other Projects

Taking a break tonight from 'Samson' my next novel to write a couple of poems for the Olympics, I'm planning on entering one into a competition and publishing the other on here....once I've decided which ones going where??

I've also got a few ideas that I'm penning regarding comedies, totally original, taking the mick out of everyday life and I reckon they'll be hilarious????

Why we write?

What can be better than to write something and you know you're pleased with the end product but then to have someone say 'hey....that was superb, I really enjoyed it!' 

I love writing, and all sorts of writing from poetry to stories both short and long.  To have people read what we write and appreciate what our imaginations have come up with; well that's the ultimate accolade and if people don't enjoy what we write they are entitled to their opinion.....but we'll continue doing what we do and that's writing.  Good old fashioned writing, without the writer there are no books, there are no TV programmes, movies, newspapers or poems!!

Pretty important aren't we.......and we'll keep producing our craft, we'll get rejections, but we won't stop we'll carry on with idea after idea, because that's what we do, putting our thoughts into words. 

We write because we enjoy it and we want others to read what we write and we want them to enjoy our every word, sometimes we fail and sometimes we don't and each time we get a good response from our words, well that makes it all worthwhile.......oh and thanks God for editors, cause we all make mistakes!!!!

Bluetooth.......do we really know what we've created?????

Questions

We visit hospitals and see the signs.....please turn off your mobile phone!! 
What happens if we don't?
Do we really know what all this new technology does???

Feedback

Got to say I was a happy chappie tonight........had some feedback from someone I don't know on 'The Semiotic Networks' page on facebook, she loved it and said I've got to write a second.  When you write you want people to enjoy what you've written and when you know people do, well that just makes you feel...........DAMN GOOD!

Chapter 5 'The Bald Men'

Peters had almost got back to the car.  It was parked about two hundred metres away, exactly where he had left it earlier.  He blew out his cheeks before he stopped to see where he had travelled from; turning, he looked into the distance, realising the mileage he had covered.  As his eyes scanned the horizon a movement caught his attention out of the corner of his eye.  There's a man!  He was around twelve hundred metres away but there, right in front of his eyes, was a man; most definitely it was a man!  He wasn't facing Peters; he was walking the other way.  He had a strange walk, almost chimpanzee like, slightly crouched, his clothes tattered, his head bald.  The man looked as though he was searching for something.  Peters watched the man for a minute, pondering what he should do shall I call him?  he asked himself.
   "Hello" Peters shouted.

The bald man stopped suddenly.  His body straightened upright, his senses alert, his head turning left and right, looking up, down and all around.  He leant his head to one side, listening, looking around for the source, wondering to himself if his own mind had been playing tricks after all the searching he had been doing.  Did I hear a sound, a voice, a human voice?
   "Hello! You there!" Peters shouted loudly.  The bald man snapped his around to look directly at Peters.  "Yes, you! Hello!"  Peters waved his arm above his head, watching as the bald man let out some kind of howl, then it made a loud Cak.....cak, cak sound.  The first thought that came into Peters head was of the dreams he had endured over the past few nights; he had heard that exact same sound!

OUT NOW.....The Semiotic Networks
Get ready for the nightmare of the semiotic networks, get ready to disable bluetooth!!

Question

So you go to the hospital to visit a relative or friend and you see the sign 'please turn off your mobile phone' do you turn it off or leave it on like 90% of other people?

The Semiotic Networks

What would you do???
You wake up at the scene of your own accident, everyone has disappeared, you're alone, you're afraid!! You search for your family, friends, neighbours, anybody; but the whole world is empty, abandoned cars line deserted streets, shopping bags and rubbish litter the towns and cities, but still you search!!
Then one day you see a man; a bald man looking, searching; searching for what? You call out to him "hey you there" his head snaps round to face the source of the sound; to face you, he begins to sprint toward you, faster and faster, his speed unlike anything you have ever seen and that little voice inside starts saying this isn't right. At that moment you do the only thing you can? You RUN for your life! Get ready for the nightmare of the semiotic networks, get ready to disable bluetooth!

Dudley Wood Visit

Picture from the school visit to Dudley Wood, where I wrote a poem and a short story, trying to get the children to use their imaginations.  After the readings we had a question and answers session where they really grilled me!!!!

Pictures from radio interview!!

Pictures from the hospital radio interview on Wednesday 25th January, Interview took place at City Road Hospital.......