by herne | Jan 17, 2024 | England, Locations
Ted Hughes Memorial Ted Hughes Memorial Dartmoor North of Plymouth sits Dartmoor, a 900 square kilometre plug of granite topped with spongy moorland grasses and rocky outcrops known as “tors”. It is the source of West Devon’s major rivers, and its outer fringes are...
by herne | Jan 13, 2024 | Thoughts
The origins of the idea In the last post I wrote about my thoughts on the so-called “meaning crisis”, and how this thinking structured the characters of Delevin and Nassurellaya for the novel that I was planning to write. I had imagined a scene with Del and Nass...
by herne | Jan 5, 2024 | Thoughts
The origins of the idea In the middle of 2021, I accepted a job offer in China, to start the following year. Specifically, I was going to be stationed in some small town in the boondocks, with nary a “laowai” in sight. Not knowing any Chinese, and not...
