Clash of Mythologies

The troll hefts its makeshift club and advances cautiously towards the glowing blue figure. He roars a challenge at the strange creature to show his dominance. But the blue figure is uncowed. She just smiles as she hovers above the ground and raises a single hand. The earth rumbles in response. In my last post, […]

Big Fat Thank You

This is a post dedicated to my long-term subscribers. I was just reviewing my blog stats and realised that many of you have been following me for over a decade. That’s an impressive commitment. Thank you and may the Almighty bless you and guide you. For those of you who have joined more recently, thank […]

A Man of Focus

This is my yearly excuse piece on why I haven’t written any new fiction in ages. Same excuse as last year, I’m still working on my PhD. Its started to dray a little bit, and there are plenty of distractions around for me to happily procrastinate with. I need to be more like the guy […]

The AI Writer

I watched this video highlighed by the ALCS on writing generated by an AI and it freaked me out. The video features the award-winning poet, Laura Mucha, as she reads out two poems about global warming. One poem has been written by her and the other by AI. She challenges the viewer to figure out […]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Beloved readers, subscribers and my handful of fans. If you are celebrating Christmas than I hope you have a really good one, surrounded by the love of your families and friends. If you are not, then I pray you to are spending the holidays with loved ones and are enjoying the many wonderful works of […]

The Tingle

I know what you’re thinking. What on earth is the tingle? If you read my recent post on phases you’ll know that I’m currently in academic gear (driving analogy, not clothing). But over the last few days I’ve started to experience a not too unfamiliar sensation that tells me I should be doing something, almost […]

Phases

I think people go through a cycle of phases, of doing things that they love, but really going at it for a while before lapsing for a while. Take me for example. I’ve been working my behind off for the last month on writing my Masters dissertation and have done no other writing whatsoever. Even […]

Live Again

After a couple of weeks of trying to transition from the old site, which still exists in the ether, I have finally managed to configure the trollking web address to the blog site and set up my email using Google Apps. So hopefully you can continue to visit for book reviews and news about my […]

It’s All Too Much?

Do you every get the feeling that you may be doing too much? Writing is the one thing that I would say I love doing the most, and yet of late I haven’t been putting fingers to moulded plastic keys as much as I should. I’m working on a new novel and the plot has […]