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The Beast Awakens

“They heard shouting, and cries of fear. Crafty looked down the slope and realised what had happened to cause so […]

Commodore 64

My ‘Commodore 64’ and ‘Arena 13’. ‘Arena 13’ started with my Commodore 64 computer and a language called ‘FORTH’. The […]

Seven Songs for a Seventh Son

Spooks Playlist Recently I suggested a list of songs that an ARENA 13 combatant might listen to whilst preparing to […]

Gladiator Playlist

This is a playlist I was asked to write a while ago for an Arena 13 promotion. What would your […]

If you want to be a writer, keep a notebook. You need to jot down every idea for a story that comes into your head. Don’t think to censor your ideas either! The idea is new and you are too close to it to judge its value. Ten years later it may strike you in a totally different way. I estimate that out of every thirty ideas I jotted down into my notebooks, twenty-nine proved to be worthless. The thirtieth had the potential to be developed into a novel or short story. The bad news was that quite often I found out that somebody had written something similar already!