Welcome to Briarland

>A bit of a refresh.

briarland — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:33:00 +0000

>As Editred sadly disappeared some time back most of the story entries on here had stopped working, so I decided a spot of spring cleaning might be in order.

They were mostly old versions of stuff I have much improved, and a few that should never have seen the light of day.

However expect more to come.

The lovely folk at Friction Magazine have just been in contact to tell me they will publish one of my more recent efforts, Fitzwilliam and the God of the Northern Winds, in their next issue. This is due online any day now, and I shall of course provide a link when I do.

I’m also whittling away at my entry for this year’s Northern Writer’s Awards, which will be the first 3000 words of the book I am working on, The Cuckoo In Winter (which I hope will be the first in a sequence of books to be called A Northern Wind Is Blowing). I think that too might make an appearance, as I am increasingly pleased with it.

>I Write Like…

briarland — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:33:00 +0000

>I like this result. Means I might even stop taking the piss out of things like these now.

Or possibly not.

I write like
Jane Austen

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

>RIP Diana Wynne Jones

briarland — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:52:00 +0000

>She will be missed.

You dance with the grace of a goat, my love,
And you sing soft like a cow on the mountains.

I Write Like

briarland — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:35:56 +0000

I like this result. Means I might even stop taking the piss out of things like these now.

Or possibly not.

I write like
Jane Austen

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

>The Raven

briarland — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:41:00 +0000

>Some bugger made this on a tiny budget, and now it’s being made into a film with presumably a much bigger one.

>Alone In The Dark

briarland — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:16:00 +0000

>If you saw Uwe Boll’s attempt to film Alone In The Dark, even if you didn’t watch it all the way through like most people, you would likely be aware that it’s among the poorer efforts to adapt a video game for the big screen. And there’s some competition there.

It was particularly notable for being the grave of my long-standing (admittedly one-sided) love affair with the wonderful Christian Slater, and also for being a film that impressively managed to ignore the fact that to be called ‘Alone In The Dark’, you really need a character who is alone, or indeed in the dark.

Not mincing around a pack of unconvincingly CG’d devil doggies, or fondling a lady friend inexplicably to the sound of Neneh Cherry and Youssou N’Dour’s Seven Seconds.

If you have seen it, or if you have been burned by Mr Boll before, then you may find this article explains a lot.

>New Godzilla

briarland — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:43:00 +0000

>You remember the American Godzilla? You remember how shit it was? Well they’re having another go. Probably in 3D.

And you remember that Day of the Triffids adaption at Christmas? You remember how shit it was? Well they’re having another go. In 3D.

Get the feeling these could go either way?

>The Top Ten Hottest Homoerotic True Blood Moments

briarland — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:51:00 +0000

>Ranker have posted their top ten man-on-man True Blood scenes.

And there’s certainly plenty to choose from.

>Smoking kills

briarland — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:43:00 +0000

>It’s true.

>So it’s come to this.

briarland — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:36:00 +0000

>The Wicker Man sequel, The Wicker Tree, seems to actually be happening, and I am very excited, and in no way remembering various other misguided sequels which dented my respect for some of my favourite films…

Still, at least Christopher Lee’s in it. This probably means I’ll finally have to get round to reading Cowboys For Christ n’ll.