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    What was the WORST movie you've ever seen?

    Got to agree with Dude, Where's My Car and the new King Kong, the latter scoring extra points for being incredibly expensive and STILL rubbish. But I'm going to go with the Keanu Reeves remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Incoherent, dull and an insult to one of the most significant movies...
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    Write what you know

    The Judge (Post 5) rejects simply skipping over research as not working for him but for me, it worked perfectly. I took four months off to write a complete novel so before the money ran out, I HAD to finish it. This meant an arbitrary number of words every day (I chose 2500) and resulted in a...
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    ACTORS mismatched to roles

    Kudos to whoever did the casting for the Watchmen movie. Regardless of whether you love it or hate it, you've got to admit that all the main characters completely looked the part.
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    What was the last movie you saw?

    Inexplicably and against all my better judgement, I've just watched the second Transformers film. In my defence, my 7-year-old son wanted to see it so it wasn't really out of choice. In a world of terrible Michael Bay films, this one seems to be voted the worst by most people - even by Michael...
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    Back up your work!

    Your Sinclair was slightly before my time, Toby. But I did spend many years in the 90s working for Amiga Power magazine, which many regard as the spiritual successor to YS. So yes, I probably am the Cam Winstanley you're thinking of.
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    Back up your work!

    All this talk of memory sticks and emailing copies to yourself... the way forward is Google Docs, people! If you have a Gmail account then you'll already have access to this. It's a Word processor that lives on the Web, so wherever you are, you can always access it. It changed the way I work...
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    What I've Learned: E-Book Covers

    It's interesting to see how everyone went about this process. Since I knew I was going to post my book on Kindle, my starting point was looking at the Kindle store and seeing what jumped out at me. My conclusion was that lots of traditional fantasy and sci-fi art that looks great on paperback...
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    First Person Stories

    This would be better if only I could remember the name of the book, but my friend once told me about a book he was reading written in the rarely-mentioned SECOND person format - ie "You approach the door and open it. A man inside turns to you and nods." He said it wouldn't have been so hard to...
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