The following is the opening pages from one of the many unfinished manuscripts lying about in my office drawers. Something possessed me to try my hand at a Star Trek novel. I completed enough plot for a trilogy – or at least a very thick novel - then realised that the market was so saturated, there was [...]
January 9, 2008
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Will Riker gazed sullenly into the mirror in his cabin. What a mess of contradictions he was. Hair beginning to show just enough grey for folks to attribute wisdom to him. Body as strong and powerful as it was the day he graduated twenty years earlier.
And the biggest pimple of his life glowing like a [...]
January 9, 2008
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Shakespeare on the lazy muse that would not help his writer’s block:
…’gainst myself a lawful plea commence:
Such civil war is in my love and hate,
That I an accessary needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.
- Sonnet XXXV
You said it, bard!
January 8, 2008
Categories: Thoughts by Others not Me . . Author: pjaldin . Comments: Leave a Comment