Category Archives: The Creative Splurge

The Seventh Church

My Palm Pre nags me. All my fault, so I shouldn’t complain. I use a third party task tool to capture a range of ideas, not least ideas for posts in this blog. One such post was putatively an open letter to the Christian Church with a shopping list of things it needs to do

Resuscitation

Confessional time: I like the idea of becoming a writer. So far that aspiration has been limited to technical writing (lots of technical writing…9 years worth) but the hankering to pen something other than disaster recovery guides for enterprise IT infrastructure is still there. I still get these odd ideas — ‘high concept’ ideas to

Scribal

Oh pooh. I’ve just found out that one of the ideas I had for a short story has been done as a comic. Well not identically. My idea of a 2000AD Future Shock style story based on the idea of someone exploiting ghosts as a cheap, clean energy source has been done with the exception

This is the week that was.

If you’ve opened this post in anticipation of reading my first attempt at short story writing, I’m owe you an apology. Events have conspired against this little enterprise for now. I won’t go into much more detail at this point as I’m labouring to commit an explanation to print as my thoughts are racing in

S.S.S.S.o.S.!*

I don’t know about you, but I feel whimmish today. On the back of a habit started when I bought my first PDA, I make a point of whipping it out to record ideas on the off chance I’ll be able to flesh out the bare bones of the idea. When I’m stuck in a