Spy Novel Plots: Spy thrillers are genre novels and so they have a contract with the reader to deliver a certain type of story that is within those genre boundaries. That limits the options to four archetypal spy novel plots: The Mission The Mystery On The Run Playing Defence But whichever you want to write, they will Read More …

Having chased down any method that I can find about drawing on a video preview display, I’m still at a loss. The only thing I can find is the method of setting up a Class with the drawing code in it, that does it. That’s not actually what I have already though in the Draw Read More …

Progress. Ah HA!. I’m nearly finished Chapter Three of Second Chance For love. A romance set in Felixstowe, in the UK. A port city with a long history, and not as sleepy as you might think!  

Draw to Jack is designed to give you maximum accuracy without having to resort to awkward kneeling on the floor to measure the distance from the wood to the Jack. Any time you Draw to the Jack, a quick check with the circles will tell you just how you stand in relationship to the other Read More …

If you don’t know what it all means, that’s ok, mostly I don’t either. From time to time I will also put various bits of iOS programming code on the blog. I’m a writer, and a writer of code as well. I find it easy to keep useful code in one place. My own Blog. Read More …