Monthly Archives: November 2007

My Secret ScaryGoRound Fetish

I have mentioned Scary Go Round before, but I have a secret… While I’m fairly certain that the main reasons I enjoy the stripĀ are the pretty art, the outlandish stories, the likeable characters and the charming irreverence, I noticed a change recently in the way some of the art, or more correctly some of the

Writing Conventions/Cliches

Chev pointed this out: http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html Interesting reading for anyone, as many of the items raised occur across lots of genres… fraught reading for writers, though. Luckily, I think I manage to avoid most of the pitfalls instinctively, but stray dangerously close to some of them on occassion!

This Week’s Image at Elephant Words

Hold, originally uploaded by Nick Papaconstantinou. This is this week’s image at Elephant Words. Go over there to see how our writers decode it, one a day, all week.

pennyappleblack Fan Art

Image by Nick Papaconstantinou at flickr. Inspired by the story “pennyappleblack” by Andrew Cheverton This is the first bit of Elephant Word inspired art I’ve done, and as such is my first ever piece of fan art, I reckon. I’m quite pleased with it. Click on the image to get a better look at it,