A Recap
The story so far (a.k.a. "My God! It's full of links!")
I’ve gained a few subscribers since I last introduced myself, so I thought I should remind people of who I am, and what I do.
My name’s Jonny Nexus. I’m British, born in London, now living in the North (of England). I’m a business analyst who has a side-gig as a writer of fantasy and SF novels. I’m represented by my agent John Jarrold, of the John Jarrold Literary Agency. I’ve previously self-published four novels but haven’t yet had a novel conventionally published.
Posts on this Substack will generally fall into one of the following five categories:
Writing, Language, Art: On Writing, Being A Writer, And The Need For External Validation | To Apostrophise Or Not To Apostrophise | On How Plot Construction Reverses Cause and Effect | Cool Bombs | Separating the F from the SF in SF/F | To Writers Group Or Not To Writers Group | How I Plot Novels | On Editing | Beyond Plotting vs Pantsing (to Plot-Plotting vs Pants-Plotting | Nuts & Bolts: Richard Osman | Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie? | Confessions of A Hapless Monoglot
Fiction: The Shit Roman Villa
Pen-And-Paper Gaming: My Dream Campaign
Life, Politics, Society: There Is No “They” | Fixing Eurovision (In Both Senses Of The Word) | National Identity, Regional Identity, and Actual Identity | Life Hacks Of 1955 | Refill Shops | The Best Dream I Ever Had | If I Were Prime Minister | Land Of The Free? | The Parable of the Chieftain Tank
Technology, Science: Why We Went To The Moon… And Then Never Went Back | The Impossibly High Hurdle For Self-Driving Cars | Surprisingly Late Scientific Discoveries | Curating Your Social Media Feed | Digital Having and Digital Have-Notting | When Software Turns Evil
And that’s about it.
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