Yearly archives: 2012

Thanks to YouTube, I’ve finally had the opportunity to see an episode of the BBC Sherlock Holmes series starring Douglas Wilmer. Wilmer was later replaced by Peter Cushing (episodes I’ve already seen), but it has been difficult to see the Wilmer episodes. Most of them have been lost over the […]

The Six Napoleons

October 27, 2012 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged Arthur Hewlett / Donald Hewlett / Douglas Wilmer / James Bree / Nigel Stock / Peter Madden / Sherlock Holmes / The Six Napoleons by Jonathan Rudderham

I’ve just stumbled across another version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, this time starring Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Fox as Watson. Yes, it also stars William Shatner as Stapleton together with Anthony Zerbe as Mortimer. The main positive is the set design. It’s very atmospheric and […]

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)

October 27, 2012 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged Anthony Zerbe / Bernard Fox / Sherlock Holmes / Stewart Granger / The Hound of the Baskervilles / William Shatner by Jonathan Rudderham

In my seemingly never-ending quest to write on my iPad, I recently began investigating Storyist for iPad. There are many text document apps for the iPad and my favourite “quick writing” app has been Writings. That offers a pleasing but basic interface and is able to keep documents together (such […]

Novelling on my iPad

May 21, 2012 in Novelling / Technology / Writing tagged novel writing by Jonathan Rudderham

It may only be March, but it’s already time to start thinking about this year’s NaNoWriMo. Between then and now, I must get the first draft of The Three Deaths of Piper Gwyn finished. I have a number of ideas for this year’s NaNoWriMo but, with this book currently stretching […]

It’ll soon be November

March 12, 2012 in Books / Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Novelling tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Novelling by Jonathan Rudderham

Over three thousand words just to walk through a cave? Surely not. That must have been a very interesting cave. Yesterday’s wordcount increased the story by 3,429 words, with the total now running at 178,318 words. It’s odd how you think of the story in your mind, and the words […]

When the weekend doesn’t end the week

February 27, 2012 in Book 3 / Novelling tagged novel writing / Novelling / On the path / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

How to add 2,000 words to a scene in one easy step – – throw a character to the lions. So there I am, struggling with a simple scene of getting a character from ‘A’ to ‘B’. It’s a necessary scene. He needs to get there, and we need to […]

Fancy meeting you in a place like this…

February 25, 2012 in Book 3 / Novelling tagged characters / Novelling / On the path / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Still on the path, but only another thousand or so words today. The build-up to the final action scene begins. Trying to tie up a couple of loose ends while keeping the pace up is proving a little tricky, but it seems to be working out. Total wordcount actually runs […]

Another 1,013 Words…

February 20, 2012 in Book 3 / Novelling / Writing tagged novel writing / Novelling / War of The Words / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

In another episode that pushes the boundaries of Superbooy further away from its original “High School” premise, Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk takes a leaf out of the comic books to introduce one of Superman’s colourful enemies. A remarkably accurate piece of casting sees Michael J Pollard as the eponymous mischievous imp […]

1.16 Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk

February 20, 2012 in Reviews / Superboy / Television tagged Jim Calvert / John Haymes Newton / Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk / Michael J Pollard / Stacy Haiduk / Superboy by Jonathan Rudderham

After a few months away from NaNoWriMo and this novel that seems to be taking ages to finish, I think I’m finally back on the path. I’ve been able to squeeze out a few hundred words by pecking at it over the last several days, but today I’ve finished the […]

Light At The End…

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