Underground and in the net
I spent 3 days in London this weekend, and almost all of it can be classed research. Amazing. Friday was spent entirely on the Underground – no joke, I saw sky only when the trains ...
Characters
Names, Dammit
Neil Gaiman got an interesting question at the reading last week: how does he come up with such wonderful names? Coraline was a typo (he misspelled Caroline on a letter, and thought the result was ...
Forbidden Characters
I gobble up two television shows like an addict in a heroin shop: Stargate Atlantis and House. I don’t care about the plotlines – they’re always the same, recycled from old scifi or old medical ...
Don’t I Know You?
The question comes up a lot, in classes I teach, when I tell people I write fiction: Do you use people you know in your stories? Well, duh. Of course I use people I know ...