I don't really remember when it was that I first got into reading. I don't really remember when I stopped reading or when I got back into again. I read a lot as a child, the usual suspects including Choose Your Own Adventures, the Goosebumps books, Roald Dahl as well as celebrated Australian authors Paul … Continue reading The Best Books I’ve Read
Month: January 2014
100 Word Story (1)
Here are my random plot elements: A coarse 25 year-old man An aggressive 36 year-old woman A university A relationship break-up loyalty A relatively simple one to get me started: She couldn't believe he'd just told her to go fuck herself. Well she could really; she knew he was that sort of guy even before … Continue reading 100 Word Story (1)
A New Challenge
Seeing as how I am trying to get back into writing and seeing as how I have been reasonably successful so far in terms of output (2 post in 2 days before today), I thought I might set myself a new challenge in order to keep my motivation up and so that I have something … Continue reading A New Challenge
Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The middle chapter of the (possibly) much anticipated Hobbit trilogy hit screens here in Oz back on Boxing Day and, rather impressively given my inability to get to the cinema much last year, I have managed to see it (in a cinema no less!) within a week or so of it's release. Unfortunately though, while the … Continue reading Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013: My Favourite Films
My Favourite Films of 2013 My biggest regret of 2013, aside from effectively giving up writing in the 2nd half of the year, was the fact that I didn’t get to the cinema anywhere near as often as I would have liked. At the beginning of December my thoughts, as they often do, turned to … Continue reading 2013: My Favourite Films