Tag: characters
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The Making of Joe Palliser – A Writer’s Notes.
These studies seem to interest my long-suffering followers, and if they are not too boring I will try to do more of them. I am referencing Hallbury Summer because I have just completed the revised version and the character is still fresh in my mind, and, hopefully, in some of yours. So why this article?…
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Chroma keying
A breathless moment: two action heroes run for their lives through corridors of a building while, behind them, a bomb is ticking down through its final seconds. They find their exit, sprint away from danger as the ticking stops. In leaping for cover they seem to be thrown forward by an explosion which consumes…
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A Writing Challenge: the thinking behind ‘A Place That Was Ours’.
In the Wear Valley of County Durham, there is a town called Bishop Auckland, and Bishop Auckland has a bridge. A one-time viaduct, it bore the weight of rail traffic emanating from the coal and ore producing mines of the upper valley. Now it is a road bridge. The mines are gone, but the isolated…