English civil war story: writing a treachery and violence scene
This post looks at writing a scene for a story about the English civil war that involves treachery and violence between the intelligence agencies of the Royalist forces and the Parliamentary forces
I’m pretty convinced that each army in the English …
March 23, 2010
Civil war scenarios
This English civil war scenario, an episode from a short story which I’m writing, recounts how an officer in the Parliamentary army (what might nowadays be called the ‘pro-democracy Parliamentary army’) somewhat brutally recruits men for the army by subjecting …
February 7, 2010
The chat room
The theme of this draft short story or maybe novel is the relationship between internet chat rooms and government intelligence agencies; the basic plot is that a surfer discovers a sinister chat room which the intelligence agencies aren’t aware of.
If …
April 10, 2009
Extreme etiquette
I owe the idea of extreme etiquette to an American writer and to a World War 2 novel which he wrote
Sadly, I can’t remember his name, or the title of his novel, which is pretty unforgivable as it’s a good …
January 11, 2008
Bye webcam girl
This hopefully humorous short story is a British version of the American writing style which is called the ’stream of consciousness’ writing style
It has elements of what is sometimes called the ‘human condition.’ This can describe any of the conditions …
January 8, 2008
The Call
“The British once sent missionaries overseas to convert `the natives’ to Christianity but now it is the British who are the natives that need converting – or rather converting back, to Christianity.”
This is Pastor Jim Meirs, previously of Texas but …
January 6, 2008
Smoking story
Smoking story is one of those stories with a ‘twist’, or surprise ending; it’s also an experiment into whether it’s possible to write a story that is so short it can be read without without scrolling down a web page
One …