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Tag Archives: ben jeapes
Handy Habits by Ben Jeapes
Will it sound unbearably smug if I say that lockdown hasn’t really affected me? Apart from getting a new computer. Otherwise normal service has continued pretty well without interruption. I don’t want it to sound smug, because I know people … Continue reading
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His Majesty’s Starship, part 2: B5, bad guys and by golly, a sequel – by Ben Jeapes
Originally posted on Ben Jeapes’ blog on 10th December 2018 Like me, Babylon 5 was also on a mission to do right what Star Trek got wrong. Its key innovation was the story arc – the idea of an overall plot across the entire … Continue reading
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His Majesty’s Starship, part 1: origins by Ben Jeapes
Originally posted on Ben Jeapes’ blog His Majesty’s Starship hit the stands on 10 December 1998. I am inspired to reminisce. In the best spirit of present-day science fiction I shall do it in three parts. When I was young … Continue reading
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Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations By Ben Jeapes
Originally posted on May 3, 2014 as a guest post on Jacey Bedford’s blog I read Lois McMaster Bujold’s Barrayar series at various points over the 90s and 00s, out of order and out of sequence, which is easy … Continue reading
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Write What Someone Knows by Ben Jeapes
First posted on the Milford blog inMarch 2017 “Bad books on writing tell you to “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.” … Continue reading
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Getcha luvverly ideas here! By Ben Jeapes
You know you’ve made it as an author when you’re asked the time-honoured question, “where do you get your ideas from?” There are various time-honoured responses, but Neil Gaiman in the link nails it. In our recent house move I … Continue reading
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Where I’m at, by Ben Jeapes
Once upon a time there was a young man with the twin ambitions, not incompatible, of making it big in publishing and becoming a successful writer. How did he do? Well, the publishing happened, for a good few years. It … Continue reading
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Tagged ben jeapes, books, ghost writing, Interzone, publishing, writing
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Let no one else’s work evade your eyes by Ben Jeapes
There are writers, would-be writers and wannabe writers. (There are also don’t-wannabe writers, which is fine and a perfectly valid lifestyle choice and they play no further part in this post.) Even though neither party has actually been published yet, … Continue reading
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Tagged ben jeapes, David Gemmel, fantasy, ghost writing, plagiarism, writing
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Robert Louis Stevenson by Ben Jeapes
I read a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman. Hmm. Interesting man, interesting life. It’s also interesting to compare the life of a writer then and now – the similarities and the differences. The similarities: you can work … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century writers, ben jeapes, biography, Jekyll & Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, writing
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Heroic Factasy by Ben Jeapes
I don’t read much heroic fantasy, for various reasons. A good one is that it all comes in such fat multi-volume series that I simply don’t have the time. But a deeper, slightly more sneaking one is that, well, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ben jeapes, fantasy, heroic fantasy, historical fiction, Jan Guillou, joe abercrombie, writing
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