Just in case the two blokes, a dog and a packet of crisps that constitute my entire (presumed) online audience have been wondering where the expected update/eccentric diversion into an obscure byway of popular culture has got to - fear not!
I know that all four of you are expecting yet another one of my classics (NOT going to put that word in inverted commas, though that would be strictly accurate in technical terms, my reason being that it would make me look like a rank amateur. One thing I am most emphatically NOT is a tinkering Sunday jobber who just farts about and refuses to take writing seriously enough in order to try and learn how to do it properly.).
Well, I have certainly got something interesting in preparation, namely an article on Astounding Stories magazine from the Thirties. Provisionally titled 'Clean, interesting and vivid', like my previous pieces on the Blake's Seven fan, slash and genfic, it looks at a number of stories and attempts to identify a number of general guiding principles that apply to most, if not all, of the stories in question.
True, all these principles have already been identified and discussed at much greater length (if not tedium) by professional academics who specialise in literature with a sci fi or fantasy bent, but this is my personal take, so do look forward to more of my uniquely wry insights and witty asides once I've finally managed to finish writing the bugger.
The main reason I have fallen slightly behind with the blog schedule is I'm still sodding wrestling with the treatment and step outline for my Final Project on the MA in Television and Radio Scriptwriting. Without wishing to sound unprofessional about it, it has been proving bloody difficult.
Yes, that means it will probably end up proving a great learning opportunity.
But first I have got to get to grips with the thing and sort it out once and for all.
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