After three years of my little Halloween stories - I thought Bob's story should carry on! r Bob got up to more tricks in year two and yet more frolics last year. It's at this time of year when the nights draw in, the swirling mist leaks around the village and when the children go... Continue Reading →
Digital Art with GIMP – Creating Planet Rings
Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program, an open source program that like Photoshop is able to do amazing things with graphics and photo's. Unlike Photoshop it costs nothing and it's feature set is still comparable. This is a series of posts I've created on how Gimp can be used to help create worlds and give... Continue Reading →
WHY OTHER WRITERS ARE YOUR FRIENDS…AND NOT YOUR COMPETITION
A while ago I had been trying to get some great blogging writers to guest post here on Planet Simon and last week I got a great surprise Ari Meglen sent me a surprise guest post. I was dead chuffed! Ari runs the #MerryWriters tag game on Twitter which is really useful to meet other... Continue Reading →
Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit -Blog Date 44-2018
Hi there bloggies! Another week begins and another blog obit comes around again. I awake today to find frost outside - that's right, frost! I know we get hung up that it's 'only' October but you know, it catches you by surprise. In any case, this really is now the slippery slope to Christmas with... Continue Reading →
The Celestial Temple
This short piece has been written for the October 2018 Blog Battle. If you need to find out more please click: Blog Battle - October 2018 The word for this month is CAVE. Like a dream I could see the cave, carved into the side of a mountain, looking into it I saw... Continue Reading →
Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit -Blog Date 43-2018
Hi there bloggies! Another week begins and another blog obit comes around again. For myself in the UK I can't help but notice the leaves falling for the trees, the moisture on the windscreen in the mornings and that chill in the air. Autumn is definitely here and it looks like winter could be damn... Continue Reading →
Digital Art with GIMP – Creating Planets
Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program, an open source program that like Photoshop is able to do amazing things with graphics and photo's. Unlike Photoshop it costs nothing and it's feature set is still comparable. This is a series of posts I've created on how Gimp can be used to help create worlds and give... Continue Reading →
Sunshine Blogger Award
Thank you to Preety of the Get Your Own Style blog for nominating me for the Sunshine blogger award. I've only been following Preety's blog a short time but it's got a great style of it's own and there's some great work in there so make sure you have a look. The Rules: Thank the... Continue Reading →
Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit -Blog Date 42-2018
Hi there bloggies! How are you guys all doing? I'm hopefully managing to get a bit more blog time in, meaning this week you get my weekly orbit. Last week was a bit of a bumper week, I got a number of posts out, the most important to note was the concluding part of the... Continue Reading →