Logline
“When a small-town journalist stumbles onto a government cover up, he risks exposing his own dark family secrets to unravel the galactic conspiracy.”
Mini Bible
Main Characters Liam Bentall – Protagonist -A stuck in a rut journalist working on small-time stories for the local free newspaper. He lives at home with his remarried mother, following his fathers death. Content with his lot but speaks with his paternal grandfather of how he wants better for his mother. Holly Bannister – A young blogger, still full […]
Concept
This is a science fiction thriller set in the current world: Think ‘Enemy of the State‘/‘The Da Vinci Code‘ meets ‘The X-Files‘/’Dark Skies‘ with an element of ‘They Live‘. A stuck in a rut journalist is reporting on the funeral of a local Air Force hero when he meets a young blogger still full of the […]
#500aDay
“Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It’s not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.” – Richelle E Goodrich So because of this tweet from @myfriendakota: I have to keep telling myself: if you write at least 500 words each day, you'll have a novel […]
How this will work
So the way I am thinking at the moment is that you (un)lucky guys and gals here get to see the story from the bare bones right the way through to completion. Over on Wattpad I shall produce regular completed parts (chapters). I am planning to start maybe monthly and then increase to fortnightly and […]
So I’m on Wattpad now
So the Dark Star: Chronicles are now on Wattpad. This is a new venture for me and I’m intrigued to see how it goes! If anyone else out there uses it then let me know your thoughts. All I have up is a bare outline of the story at the moment but I guess the intention would […]
Our Hero(ine)
I have a protagonist that lives at home with his/her mum, stepdad & sister. He’s a journalist with the local free newspaper and a blogger on the side. He had big dreams of an important role in one of the main papers based out of London but is stuck in a rut that he can’t […]
“All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
It’s been a while hasn’t it… I haven’t been resting on my laurels but my writing has had to take a major back seat for a number of personal reasons over recent years. The Chronicles have not been forgotten, they’ve just been on the back burner simmering away. If anything, I think that they will […]
NanoWriMo 2011 and Dark Star
To anyone out there still watching this blog and to coin the common current day cinema parlance of “rebooting” old ideas… This site, the whole Dark Star idea and myself are being revived/rehashed/brought back to life for NanoWriMo 2011. For those who don’t know what it is I shall point you here: NanoWriMo In its […]
Week 3
Due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been little or no activity online this past week. This should improve by next month. Lots of things happening “behind the scenes”! As a tease there is a forum waiting for you all, and a chat room too…
Dark Star: Chronicles 