Well, Thailand and Laos were awesome. If you want to see some pictures, check out http://thewordofward.co.uk/?p=1849. It is just part 1 of a tale of our trip down the Mekong to Luang Prabang.
I spent more time travelling than writing, sadly. Having said that, I have found time to edit a trio of travel stories. They are almost ready to go. All I need now is a title and a cover.
I am also going to publish some articles I wrote for magazines in Thailand. They might be of interest to someone somewhere.
So it is all full steam ahead. Except for today. As I have a hangover.
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Friday, 3 February 2012
Be prepared for a writing onslaught!
I work freelance in TV and I'm currently in the middle of an 84 hour week. This is a good thing as I am going away for 5 weeks and won't get paid while I am away. The work obviously uses up a lot of time when you factor in sleeping, eating, and toilet breaks as well.
While doing all this, I am also studying for a degree in English Language and Literature. Even though I have worked as a journalist on and off for 20 years, I intend to return to Asia at some point, where it is almost impossible to work full time without a degree these days.
The final thing is that it is absolutely freezing in Britain and our heating has just packed up. Consequently it is a struggle to focus and be creative in any way. What with all the shivering and impending frostbite.
I am currently working on some non-fiction travel stories. They are almost done but I feel it will enhance the writing if I am in a tropical country as the stories are set in Morocco, Thailand, and Australia.
After that, there are some more short fiction tales and two books in the pipeline.
So brace yourself.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
The Uneven Passage of Time
Here is a collection of three Science Fiction short stories. Think Twilight Zone with an emphasis on the way we travel through time. Here is a picture and the blurb.
Time, famously, is relative. In this trio of short stories journalist and fiction writer Jason R. Ward looks at three individuals and their unorthodox journeys through time. These entertaining tales blend the themes of psychology and perception with classic science fiction.
Stephen Hawking once sent out dinner invitations to all future time travellers. No one turned up. But what if one had? In ‘A Date to Remember’ a young physicist is convinced he has worked out the secret to building a time travel device. Lacking the resources to construct the machine he sets a time and date for a meeting with his future self.
It is a truism that people remember the big events in life and forget the repetitive. For most people, their year skips by unnoticed, punctuated by birthdays, world events, big personal milestones or traumatic events. As you age life seems to speed up and you find that the years seem to fly past. ‘As Time Goes By’ is the story of Frank Gilbert who is experiencing this to the extreme. His time seems to be accelerating at an abnormal rate. Years of his repetitive life seem to go by in days. Can he break the cycle in time?
The final and longest short story is ‘The Man Who Loved Statues’. Captain Michael Pike is a man who has taken a bit of hammering in life. With nothing much to live for he volunteers for an experiment that is going to attempt to alter his passage through time and put him in stasis. Things don’t go quite according to plan.
For US readers: http://www.amazon.com/Uneven-Passage-Time-ebook/dp/B006MHSWI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324264158&sr=8-1
For UK readers: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Uneven-Passage-Time-ebook/dp/B006MHSWI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324258518&sr=8-1
Go on, give them a try and leave a lovely review (if the mood takes you).
Time, famously, is relative. In this trio of short stories journalist and fiction writer Jason R. Ward looks at three individuals and their unorthodox journeys through time. These entertaining tales blend the themes of psychology and perception with classic science fiction.
Stephen Hawking once sent out dinner invitations to all future time travellers. No one turned up. But what if one had? In ‘A Date to Remember’ a young physicist is convinced he has worked out the secret to building a time travel device. Lacking the resources to construct the machine he sets a time and date for a meeting with his future self.
It is a truism that people remember the big events in life and forget the repetitive. For most people, their year skips by unnoticed, punctuated by birthdays, world events, big personal milestones or traumatic events. As you age life seems to speed up and you find that the years seem to fly past. ‘As Time Goes By’ is the story of Frank Gilbert who is experiencing this to the extreme. His time seems to be accelerating at an abnormal rate. Years of his repetitive life seem to go by in days. Can he break the cycle in time?
The final and longest short story is ‘The Man Who Loved Statues’. Captain Michael Pike is a man who has taken a bit of hammering in life. With nothing much to live for he volunteers for an experiment that is going to attempt to alter his passage through time and put him in stasis. Things don’t go quite according to plan.
For US readers: http://www.amazon.com/Uneven-Passage-Time-ebook/dp/B006MHSWI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324264158&sr=8-1
For UK readers: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Uneven-Passage-Time-ebook/dp/B006MHSWI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324258518&sr=8-1
Go on, give them a try and leave a lovely review (if the mood takes you).
Welcome!
Hello, good evening and welcome to my new website. This exists so that I can I can keep you informed about my superb works of fiction. First, in case you care, a little bit about myself.
I am a journalist and a fiction writer. I also write two humorous websites. www.thewordofward.co.uk is a review site of almost everything I see, read, or visit. It is very tongue in cheek. My other site is similarly fun but deals purely with glorious Science Fiction. www.scifiward.com
Although I started writing fiction when I was 10, I have only now gotten round to actually allowing the public to read my fiction. My first book is a trio of short stories called 'The Uneven Passage of Time'. There will be more to follow. I hope that the more I write fiction the less I will have to write non-fiction. Enjoy!
I am a journalist and a fiction writer. I also write two humorous websites. www.thewordofward.co.uk is a review site of almost everything I see, read, or visit. It is very tongue in cheek. My other site is similarly fun but deals purely with glorious Science Fiction. www.scifiward.com
Although I started writing fiction when I was 10, I have only now gotten round to actually allowing the public to read my fiction. My first book is a trio of short stories called 'The Uneven Passage of Time'. There will be more to follow. I hope that the more I write fiction the less I will have to write non-fiction. Enjoy!
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