Review. Military SF is a guilty pleasure of mine. Let's read another two. Today, that's Confrontation  by Nathan Hystad. Oh dear... ...

Review. Yeah, I know. Lot's of old anime lately. Hyperpolice . Starts of as a comedy, but does introduce some more moral points of dis...

  It's summer, and life and work are changing yet again. The future is... unclear. It's a good thing I'm not the only one who do...

Review. Strange... I'm pretty sure I've read some of his work, but I cannot recall a single title. Oh well... I had totally differe...

Review. Amanda Tapping takes care of abnormals. Innocent young man ends up protecting supernatural beings. Some evil machinations try to tak...

Use your tablet as an extra screen or input device for your PC, or as a sketchpad for meetings. This post only describes solutions for Windo...

Writing. (This is a follow up to Book And Chapter Sizes ) Do you need chapters, and is chapter size related to reading speed? I think it is!...

Review. I never saw all episodes of B5 thus far, so I'm watching them now. (But I realise that I saw quite a few, to be honest.) I watc...

Writing. Why and how I keep track of events in my own stories... no matter how bad they are 😁 This is a sequel to The Retro Plotter part 1 ...

Writing. Plotters plot, pantsers invent on the spot. I'm a bit in between. Yes, I plot a bit, but I also make up things as I go. So how ...

Symptom 1: WOL tools no longer work after installing VirtualBox. Symptom 2: SqueezePlay no longer works but SqueezeLiteX does. Symptom 3: Co...

Review. Continuum wrapped up. It could have used a few more episodes, but this was all they got. So, what do we have here? Time traveler t...

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, avoid (stupid) mistakes, and expand your chapters. All that...

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...