I’ve read that good fiction was a combination of the exotic and the familiar. Personally, I’m not sure that this is the ‘secret sauce’ that by itself makes fiction good. I suspect that most of the magic is in the interplay between specific exotics and particular familiars. (Side note – I’m now imagining the fussiestContinue reading “Dawnfire”
Tag Archives: Dragons
Pocket Dragons
Once upon a time I made computer games. Well, tried to anyway, the venture never really got off the ground. A lucky escape, all things considered, although I didn’t think it at the time. One of the games that I was looking at involved dragons. I’ve always found 3d modelling to be easier with aContinue reading “Pocket Dragons”
Here be Dragons?
A few years ago, while camping on Arran, I dragged the kids out on a walk that was supposed to be a 15 minute wander around the immediate area of the camp site. Instead it turned out to be a 6 hour epic for which we had: Insufficient water Insufficient food No raincoats Insufficient sunblockContinue reading “Here be Dragons?”