Hey there World! Tomorrow is ANZAC Day here in Australia. "'ANZAC' stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. On the 25th of April 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula." As it is the 100th anniversary of it, Australia is really... Continue Reading →

Well, Here is the basic run down of the main character in "Flapper". Shimmy and click on the Flapper above.. Hamish Bella Moncrief - a 'Flapper' -      Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for... Continue Reading →

Pfffffffttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!! Read below from "the onion", my favourite source of news articles and quality journalism. It's Sunday, I have been out cutting wood and not writing; anyway, as usual, there is something embedded within the image above. Hamish xxx New Evidence Suggests Middle East Conflict Predates All Human Civilization... Continue Reading →

Hey hey kids! I have just started writing a new (?) novel.  It is 1922, and it is the tale of Bella Moncrief. A rogue, swindler, and well styled crim without borders. Bella has stolen from Cait Lucifer, a wealthy and notorious brothel Madame. Cait puts word out on the streets offering £20,000 for Bella's head... Continue Reading →

Hey kids, I thought this interesting. Click 'Boy with Apple', by Michael Taylor commissioned for the Grand Budapest Hotel after the read. Ben Harper - "Mama's Got a Girlfriend Now" H xxx 5 Ways The Grimms Fairytales Changed After the First Edition    2051   Share   Hannah Keyser filed under: culture, literature   LIKE US... Continue Reading →

Hey there groover's and shaker's! Here are a couple of quick tips for writing story. Click the picture above after the read. H xxx Story writing basic’s 16APR2015   Story building First, give the Main Character (MC) a weakness or flaw Then, the MC struggles to overcome obstacles that pressure them and their weakness/s, forcing... Continue Reading →

Here are a couple of jokes I was forwarded earlier this morning, they appealed to me incidentally.  Click the picture above after the read. Hamish One liners and similar. It’s hard to take kleptomaniacs and puns seriously. Why? They take things literally. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?... Continue Reading →

Hello there world! My writing course concluded Wednesday, as such I was fortunate enough to have my tutor give feed back regards my efforts (think touchy feely, not critical).  In keeping with all that I have put here on the blog over the last month, find below that that I mentioned. Click the picture above,... Continue Reading →

This is the very last exercise in the 'Unlocking Creativity - Online' writers course I have been undertaking these past four weeks. I was supposed to be writing a letter to a friend, extolling the wonders and virtue's of the course.  Sadly I could not do this as I believe the course spent more time... Continue Reading →

Hmmm................as the course is running throughout the Easter weekend, the writing continues.  I feel this piece has all of the possibilities of becoming something far better, and I like the idea of the story. The exercise had to involve five separate scene's crammed into 900 words.  My response needed to have a protagonist in the... Continue Reading →