Recent content by Phyphor

Ah well, it's not a bad county to be surrounded by. You should try living here - at 46, I think I'm the youngest person in the region by about thirty years. Although, that's kinda why I came here, for the peace and quiet :)

I've had a recurring dream since I was a teenager - so, perhaps thirty years. Well, it's not actually a dream, it's just something that regularly pops up in dreams. Absolutely no idea why. It's a white, single story building built from huge, rounded, smooth stones. There are no doors or...

P.s I see you're in Surrey. I lived in Surbiton for a few years (still have a flat there) - now living in North Norfolk, circa 1937. Were you close by in Surrey?

Thanks CoJ - I'll try not to drive people mad with my mis-placed comma obsession ;)

In my head, it works like this: IRL, I'm a geo in the oil and gas industry. There's a basic rule of thumb which we use in exploration, that when a new oil or gas deposit is discovered, the fields are often formed of a 'king', 'queen' and 'princes'. In other words, we quite often find one huge...

I bought a book on the 'Snowflake' method for planning out a story. Followed the instructions meticulously, and spent about two weeks planning the plot, structure, working out characters, etc. When I finally got to writing it, my main character's age and occupation had changed by the end of the...

Just joined and thought I'd better say 'hello'. I read all sorts of stuff, but SF/F is my 'fall back' genre and has been since I was a kid (I'm mid-forties now). I'm not an experienced writer (wrote my first word of fiction in 2016), but am already addicted to it. I'm a semi-retired English...