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Empathy and Reality
Read more: Empathy and RealityI was struck, after my two hours plus fully conscious operation for a detached retina (gory details in Latest News: www.chronometerpublications.me), how doctors must inflict pain to do their business. Also that, in the main, they will have little idea of the depth and variety of pain that a patient suffers. The best they can… Know More
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Writer as Medium
Read more: Writer as MediumThe joy in writing what you could never have known to be true until afterwards is both spellbinding and uplifting. During the ten years of Azimuth’s emergence from my unconscious I learned to leave control over the destiny of the narrative to my imagination. What transpired was occasionally quite spooky. Characters with strange lineage, implements… Know More
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Life Imitating Art
Read more: Life Imitating ArtThis is going to be brief because my eye hurts! But it has resonances. I wrote Azimuth over a ten year period and regard it as my legacy. It is a strange book, both an adventure story and an agnostic’s search for enlightenment. Much of it was written in a divine effluvia, a semi- unbridled… Know More
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Mind Muscle
Read more: Mind MuscleThe mind is a strange sleight of hand trick of the brain (to mix metaphors), without which it cannot exist. Damage the brain and the mind is impaired. Nevertheless, we differentiate them so that the mind becomes the subject and the brain becomes the object in their relationship. The mind represents the driver and the… Know More
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All writing is fantasy
Read more: All writing is fantasyThese blogs are shoehorned into travel. I am now in England after days in Cahors, Chartres and Calais. Whether they are stylish and durable footwear is another thing. I tweeted the title of this piece this morning @profjacksanger because I was taken by the notion that whatever I have executed as a writer, whether in… Know More
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Writers and Jung
Read more: Writers and JungIn the deepest well of the writer’s imagination is all the good and evil of the universe. In this we must be adherents of Carl Jung. In many of my preceding blogs about the art of writing (should that really be the psychology of writing?) I am taken with what that Jung proposes: there is… Know More
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The Writer is Revealed
Read more: The Writer is RevealedWriting is meditation. The page is a mirror. Khayyam’s moving finger traces our changing features as we age. We write ourselves into knowledge. All of our history comes into play. Not only what we think we remember but also what we don’t know we remember. In Azimuth the assassin comes from east of Samarkand along… Know More
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Sci Fi Fo Fum, here comes the blood of a future man
Read more: Sci Fi Fo Fum, here comes the blood of a future manWriting a short sci fi novella this last month was a pleasure. (Sex: Future Imperfecti). Pure imagination. No research save for the years of reading that no doubt helped to shape it. Twist ending. Voila. Here’s a snippet, taken after a rather visceral opening, an account of a player’s death in a game simulation: He… Know More
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Being Caught short: the novella
Read more: Being Caught short: the novellaIt was like this. Having spent ten years writing Azimuth and pouring into it everything I could regarding the metaphysical, the fabulous, the adventurous and the quirky so that it became an adult’s fairytale without fairies but with gods and heroes; no that sounds a bit of a put-off, as well – allegorical, that’s the… Know More
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Let the Good Times Not Roll too Soon
Read more: Let the Good Times Not Roll too SoonI have been heavily involved in writing a novella over the last four weeks, which led to its completion this morning, at least in first draft. It was the first time I had written sci-fi (in my Eric le Sange body), and, like most novellas, it had to have a twist ending. Somehow, the idea… Know More