One part of writing Railroaded I really enjoyed was trying to come up with new technologies, or at least butchering emerging new technologies. It’s set in a UK with higher sea levels so global warming has really affected the country and they combat that by becoming carbon neutral, this means the whole transport infrastructure needs
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Is ‘The only reliable, durable, and perpetual guarantor of independence, profit.’?
There’s been much made about James Murdoch’s speech for the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival which has led to a #welovethenhs style campaign on Twitter – #welovethebbc – and Robert Peston losing his rag so I can’t add much about James Murdoch blatantly trying to give Sky an easier ride into mindnumbing, advertising
The 4 Drafts of Railroaded
‘Railroaded’, my soon to be published and global bestseller, has so far taken 4 drafts to get to an acceptable level to send out to agents. I’m not saying they ain’t going to LOL all the way to another 4 course lunch at The Ivy, I’m just saying they’d be laughing even harder had it
4th Draft Finished!
This morning I made the final finishing touches to the 4th draft of Railroaded, saved it, backed it up in a million different places and breathed a sigh of relief. Thank fuck that’s over with. I think there comes a point where the law of diminishing returns comes into play. Yeah, sure I could go
Fecal Evacuations
I’ve nearly finished the 4th draft of my novel ‘Railroaded’, in it a character has a touch of the runs or ‘diarrhea’. Now my middle school spelling tests have deserted me and I spelt it so badly that the Word spell check had no idea what word I was trying to spell so couldn’t offer
Why B3n3llis.com?
In a word; domain squatting twats. That’s 3 words but you get my meaning. When looking for a domain name I obviously checked out www.benellis.com first which is already very capably occupied by Ben Ellis, film director. Top marks to that esteemed member of the Ben Ellis community. My next visit was www.benellis.co.uk which has
The Ubiquitous Awkward First Post
Let’s get this thing over with shall we? The creation of this blog is to serve as a dumping ground for any writing that I do and anything that stems from it. At the moment that just consists of this blog, which if you think about it too hard sends you into an infinite downward