Column. One of the more curious side effects of this whole Corona mess is a loss of sense of time. We've been locked in our homes, stuck...

Writing. Solve prompts for short stories, work out mini-plots for your chapters, and avoid (stupid) mistakes. All that by simply applying th...

Writing. You can turn any 'prompt' into a short story, and it's worth doing so. At least to try to, now and again. All it needs ...

Review. Shadow and Bone is a fantasy series on Netflix, with shades of The Witcher, Game of Thrones, Shanara, and every other fantasy serie...

  In May 2010 I visited Japan. I love that place. Summer started early that year, and the cherry blossom was (mostly) finished by the time w...

Some anime series can get rather complex... And some of those series made it to NetFlix (NL). I haven't seen the following (yet) but I t...

Review. Looks promising. Regular 'government's hiding stuff we have visitors with their own agenda' show. I've only sampled ...

... congratulations! Indeed, Wattpad is a serious problem 😁 Yeah, I know, I'm just jealous of those very successful authors with mill...

Jumper  (the 2008 movie) could have been the start of a great franchise, even if it had little to do with the books. Young guy discovers he ...

Writing. As I said before , if you suffer from writer's block then write some bad poetry. Coincidentally, the new F1 🏎️ season just sta...

Writing. How would you write a (short) story based on the following plot? ' A clubber who wants to damage a diabolical, holy symbol, but...

Review. Push and Jumper... In case I did not mention these two before (where are my old TellTales , humpf)... I think both movies deserve a ...

How important is the quality of the paper in your laser / inkjet? Perhaps more important than you think. However, I'm not the expert (I&...

Review. Is there anything better than the original (?) animated Disney movie? Perhaps not... Still, Tim Burton did a pretty good job back in...

  There is one person missing in this image. The artist. The  author . Writing is hard. It's toiling away in a corner of the night, burn...

I've created another blog account to handle everything related to ParentKillers, Kind's Kiss and Angel Jay.  It's located here: ...

Writing. Vivien Reis suggests to remove 29-ish words from your novel (if possible, of course 😁). Blindly  stripping them out isn't the ...

I finally settled on a cover and a pen name. So now both my writing related websites are up-to-date. Unfortunately I haven't released th...

Review. You'd be tempted to think I watch loads of anime... but I don't. These are old reviews I wrote over the years, most for  Da...

Writing. Column. Do you remember good ol' typewriters? Man, the horror! 😣😂 I don't think there's anyone  who has good memories...

The Xara Designer Pro software package is quite nice, and capable of incredible things. It never got the traction it deserved, and has been ...

Review. Wanna' see something incredibly old? (No, it's not a picture of me 😄) Here's a very  old Fantasy / Supernatural / Roman...

Writing. The optimal chapter size is driven by your audience and publication platform. Which means you either have to adjust your chapter si...

Review. Revisiting the past... ever heard of Ranma 1/2? Boy meets girl, which appears to be just another fiancée. Credits to daddy. Girl mee...

We had -17º degrees a few days ago... as in one real week of winter. I wonder if we'll ever see it again with all that global warming......

Review. Ten years ago or so Skyland  was showing on Dutch television. At the time I downloaded a few episodes, and noticed that the broadcas...

Review. I'm not into soccer much, but the anime series  Galactic Football  wasn't too bad. Though it wasn't too good either, to ...

Column. Writing. Writing is hard. It's very hard. People have no clue how hard it actually is. Even writers themselves are clueless. So,...

Writing. Every writer has their own preference. For example, I prefer to write with empty lines instead of indents. (There are some disadvan...

Review. I’m in love. Not necessarily with Anna Taylor-Joy (who, frankly, is way easier on the eyes than I am 😂 even if deliberate make-up c...