Throughout the years that I’ve been writing professionally, 61 years by the way, I’ve always been amused and somewhat irritated by stories, particularly movies, that center their storyline around a writer’s block. I’ve never once had a writer’s block. Maybe that’s why, as my wife says, I never stop talking – unless I’m writing!
My wife Hero and I have recently come back from the Republic of Ireland after spending a busy ten days with my son Greg, his wife Louise and his three children, Erin, 17, Kai, 13 and Ryan ,10. They live in Dublin and we’ve been there a few times but we’ve never been to the west coast.
Having explored the facets of my life which involved Mountains, Beaches and Wildlife, I wondered what other major influences were worth writing about, I came up with books.
Having climbed the highest mountain – in South Africa that is – and swum in three oceans, I now turn to my third choice, wildlife.
This blog is dedicated to the memory of Bruce Rigney, who passed away 18th August 2023. Bruce was the supervising editor of all my blogs as well as providing all the photos attached to each blog. He will be sorely missed as both a good friend, a colleague and an invaluable senior member of the ExoBrain team.
If I were an ant, I reckon I’d find the world very mountainous. So many humps and bumps that we strange two-legged creatures take literally in our stride. However, I’m not an ant but I do have a fascination with mountains. I’ve seen a great variety of them. When choosing a holiday destination in South […]
In my last blog, I wrote about publishing my trilogy of novels. This time I’d like to write about the joys and frustrations of selling a movie screenplay. With a novel, the author works with the publishing team to provide the best edited version of one’s story. If you sell a screenplay to a production […]
The first season of “Tech Wars” is finished until the completion of the ExoBrain Basic build, also known as Milestone 4. In the meantime, I’m reverting to my previous practice of writing whatever comes into my head on the day of writing it. I’m currently preoccupied with two other writing projects. The first is the […]
After the FBI had received the recording made by Jauncey in which Oscar had effectively spilled all the beans, Andy and Sally were released. Oscar’s dreams of a reduced sentence for turning state’s evidence were drastically revised. After some tough negotiations, it was agreed that he would still get a reduced sentence but twice of […]
Jauncey filled a bucket with clams that he had scooped out from under the sand on Kommetjie Beach a few miles away from his home in Hout Bay. The South Africans were inclined to call these delicious molluscs white mussels instead of clams but – regardless of their name – steaming them with white wine […]