Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2010, is made up primarily of dust and gas, and exhibits signs of intense star-forming activity. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green) and sulfur... Continue Reading →
Hello bloggies, happy December! I cannot believe that we're now racing towards Christmas. It seems like only a few days ago that I last wrote and was looking forward to the challenge of NaNoWriMo.I only got two posts out this month, there was no blog battle and they were literally NaNo updates:https://sfarnell.wordpress.com/2019/11/11/nanowrimo-progress-day-11/https://sfarnell.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/nanowrimo-progress-day-18/The finally as December... Continue Reading →
As some of you may or may not know I've been taking part in Nanowrimo and through November life been slowly but surely increasing the word count on my first novel creation. At about 10.30 on Saturday the 30th of November I finished the first draft of my manuscript at a word count of 50107... Continue Reading →
Hello there bloggies it's the 18th day of NaNoWriMo and as you can tell I've still not been able to be around much as I've been getting on with the task in hand of getting 50,000 words done by the end of the month. I'm finding this is the tough part now actually. Things have... Continue Reading →
Hello there bloggies it's the 11th day of NaNoWriMo and as you can tell I've not been here much. I thought a quick well placed post on progress and to say hi might be in order, just so you know I'm still about. I've been able to keep up with reading posts either but I'm... Continue Reading →
Hello bloggies, happy November! I cannot believe that we're now racing towards Christmas. Halloween is done, this is now guy Fawkes Day / night and it's insane how quickly this year has gone.So - what's going on? Well... a bit of insanity actually. I decided I was going to take part in NaNoWriMo, long story... Continue Reading →
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 more frolics in year three , he was back again last year. And he's back again! The night draw in once more the last browned and wind blown leaves remain... Continue Reading →
This Sci-Fi files tales takes us back to the ocean depths to something that happened when a casual beach walker found a tag that had been attached to a 3 metre Great White shark. When the data on it was analysed it revealed that on Christmas Eve 2003 the shark dived to a depth of... Continue Reading →
Word prompt stories - I'm going to try and look for a word prompt daily (haha don't laugh) and see if I can create something short and sweet to write around it. As it's me I'll probably try and put a science fiction spin on it. For all you reading it, this is a challenge... Continue Reading →
When I saw the trailer for this film - I had to go see it. I can cannot stress how I really, really wanted to like this film. I had in my mind an Interstellar - esque feel with an original story line. I had no idea what to expect really. What follows is a... Continue Reading →
As it's Halloween month I thought I would create some seasonal drawings. This pumpkin drawing is a simple and quick little sketch that quite cool. Layers Use the layer tool to create different layers for all the different drawing elements, this will help greatly in putting everything in the right order. Find it under Layer... Continue Reading →
Word prompt stories - I'm going to try and look for a word prompt daily (haha don't laugh) and see if I can create something short and sweet to write around it. As it's me I'll probably try and put a science fiction spin on it. For all you reading it, this is a challenge... Continue Reading →
