Is YouTube Timely or Evergreen?
Is YouTube an evergreen social media platform? There is some reason to think it is … or at least that is more longterm than ephemeral.
You are you and that’s Okey! Photos from Stockholm
You are you and that’s OK, says the graffiti. Pictures from August’s visit to Stockholm for SWF23 – but they’re take outside the conference.
Stephen King and the Stockholm Writers’ Festival
The middle weekend of August, I attended the Stockholm Writers’ Festival (SWF) for 2023. As luck would have it, I was at the same time reading my very first Stephen King book. The post I wrote from this happy confluence of events I published on the website of my writers’ group, Pens Around the World. … More…
Property pleasure, property porn
My current pleasure is viewing YouTube films presenting property for sale in different parts of Europe, and dreaming myself into the films.
It’s the end of the world and X marks the spot
X marks the spot where Elon Musk stabbed the Twitter bluebird, which acts here as a metaphor for the destruction of our world by big money.
Reading The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell by Gail Aldwin
A review of The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell, a parallell time mystery by Gail Aldwin, published by Bloodhound Books
Picture of an author emerging
Looking for a new way to describe myself, having found ‘wannabe author’ is no longer appropriate, I’m trying on ’emerging author’ for size.
From Londoners to The Incandescent Ones
A reading diary summing up the 14 titles I read in the 2nd quarter of the year, from Londoners to The Incandescent Ones, with reviews of some.
Ch-ch-changing … again
Things will be changing at TheSupercargo in tandem with changes in my life as I retire from paid work and use my time to create more of what I want.
Character building with Lajos Egri
I’m using the character checklist from Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing to plot the characters in my novel-in-progress.