Dark Places

Okay, I have an old scenario of mine, Body & Soul, featured in Dark Places published by John Curry.

You can get your copy from Amazon. 

What can I say, go buy a copy.

Who The Hell Is Lovecraft?

Moid does a great job of discussing and explaining Lovecraft. The best summary of Lovecraft I've ever encountered.

Second Order Consequences

The title 'Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready' just about sums up the possible problems with AI generated work. The possibility that it will make the internet a thing full of trivia and or affidavits for stuff is no big stretch given what we've seen so far, just with the volume turned up to eleven.

Oh well, if something is too good to be true it probably is.

Still, grist for the mill, and in my case why AI is not the thing we imagine it will be in my Gate Walker setting, where it's very much constrained by law from widespread use.

No Excuses, Just Busy

The title says it all. So, no excuse needed.

You can see all the stuff I've been doing on my other blog.

I've also been helping a friend edit their first novel. And I've been slowly editing 'The Bureau' going through and deleting filter words. So busy.

Doctor Who 60th anniversary

We have just passed the 60th anniversary of Dr Who. I found this upload by @Wearerofthecheese, which uses the 'Soon I'll be 60 years old' song. It made me cry so, you can probably label me a fan of Dr. Who. I'll own it.

I have a deep fondness for this show that started when I was a child, and have many happy memories of watching it on TV. It's hard to describe the impact of Dr Who and or the Daleks when it first appeared on TV.

So, when people dump on the show I tend to bristle.

Edited highlights. Link to full comments.

So. I’ve been watching Doctor Who lately…

And despite its popularity and acclaim. The writing is kind of atrocious?

The show is constantly changing its own established rules.

The Doctor can’t change fixed points in time until he can.

He can’t visit a point in time twice until he can.

The level of technobabble is off the fucking charts.

Speaking of the doctor talking. God does he fucking love to talk and the bad guys just let him do it.

Speaking of the villains. The show clearly wants us to take them seriously. But also makes them really silly at the same time.

The Doctor himself is such an uninteresting protagonist.

Not saying the show is not creative.

What do you guys think?

My Reply

Arguably, one can make a case that a show with time travel, and the nature of the Doctor (an entity that can feel time), can remake the rules just because every-time he gets out of the TARDIS he's in a new time-line.

Some time-lines have fixed points, some do not. Some you can visit the same point twice, or arguably the second time you visit is not actually the same place, because it's a different time-line.

As for the Doctor's non-stop talking, words have power. It's the equivalent of knowing the secret name trope in stories with magic.

As for the scariness of any monster, the point is that Doctor Who shows us that overcoming fear is the way you beat monsters.

The show is all metaphors.

I got a lot of positive feedback for the post, so again sharing just because I can, and because I like Dr Who.

Here's to the New Year

Resolutions, I've had a few, cues song, but nowadays it's more like guidelines for goals I'd like to achieve, because hope ever springs eternal.

I have one goal. Bring one novel to market. It's written, but needs a damn good thrashing – I mean a solid copy/developmental edit – to be ready.

That's it. My only goal.

Oh, and read a few more books. Go shoot some arrows. Paint some miniatures. The usual suspects. The things I know I can do, and keep doing because they're fun things I enjoy doing.

So, Happy New Year.