This video came out June of last year, but it’s only just made it in front of my eyes. I’m sad, because it’s really good and deserves a lot of attention! Watch it all, Daniel’s smart and so is Leigh. Where one starts and the other finishes, I dunno, but it’s definitely worth a watch.
It has been a nice effect of quitting my job that I’m actually writing again. I won’t comment on the lack of funds I’m receiving from the supposed “job” but I will focus on the fact that I’ve sky-rocketed by writing through the hundred thousand words mark. It’s nice, and I’m closing in on the end of the story.
Of course, some of that time that should be spent writing is spent in other past times.
It’s such mindless entertainment, and can become repetitive at times, so I just quit and go start watching the TV show (or, more often than not, do both at the same time. Yay for two monitors).
Gotta take a break out from the hectic though. I’m getting better at it too. Knowing when to focus on the writing, when to step back from everything, etc.
Like today. Packed up myself, put two books in my bag and headed to my girlfriends. Spent the whole day reading The Regiment by Michael Asher. It’s a brilliant book telling the story of the SAS, Britain’s Special Air Service. The stories that are told are simply breathtaking, and make you rethink what you originally thought were corny WWII cliché’s. The whole walking past German/Italian guards pretending to be an officer and dressing them down; pretending to be asleep/drunk on the ground so the German patrol ignores you; taking out a field of planes with aircraft machine guns attached to the tops of jeeps.
If you’re interested in British history, or War history, then you really should check this book out. And the Prologue which focuses on the SAS’s most triumphant hour – the 1980 Iranian Embassy hostage release – is a great read, and sheds a lot of light on the event.
If you don’t know what the Iranian Embassy hostage crisis was, check out the video below. Classic footage.
I am unfortunately a little late to jump on the bandwagon for this movie it seems, having heard about it on the latest Extralife podcast, but this trailer has sold me; it looks brilliant!
I’m a fan of Greek myth any day of the week, but by gosh when you put Liam Neeson in with it I’m sold!
While we’re at it, another movie I’m looking forward to that I only just heard about is Inception, starring the “I don’t hate him anymore that he grew up” Leonardo DiCaprio.
So I get to wait until the 1st of April for Clash and and 22 July for Inception. Can’t wait!
There are times when it literally feels I’ve reached the other side of a mountain peak. Now is one such time, having made it through a hellish job working at my local supermarket. Suffering from anxiety and depression is a bitch at the best of times, but having the life literally sucked out of you and your personality quashed beneath the sheer weight of oppressiveness really opened my eyes – again – to why I’m so suited to freelance writing.
So I’m back, reporting from the other side of yuk, and writing for Comic Book Movie again. It’s nice to be back at the site that really helped me get my footing in freelance writing and shaped my writing skills. I’ve got my own “fansite” there where my stuff will be posted – here – and I’ll be covering as much as I can from the world of comics, comic book movies, and movies.
I’ll also be picking up my content producing at Fantasy Book Review, where I’ll be contributing to the news blog. Hopefully we’ll be able to increase the site’s exposure by increasing the news that we deliver in tandem with the reviews we’re dishing out.
I sat down a day or so ago and conducted my own little review-a-thon, and cranked out 7 reviews, including this one on Scott Lynch’s second book in the Gentleman Bastard series, Red Seas Under Red Skies. It rates 7.5 on the site’s current rating system (a 75 on mine).
So I’m awake, at nearly half past 2am on the fourth of the new year, on the day that I hopefully sit into a new routine. I’ll be aiming for mornings writing articles, afternoons writing my novel, and evenings with Bronwyn or reading (or both, preferably). It’s a wonderful feeling a) being away from the previous job, but also b) being in God’s will for my life.
So yeah… Happy New Year everybody, and as I said on Twitter;
Happy New Year. May God bless it, and you, and those you love.
