It's been a pretty busy year. 2015 is coming to a close, as time is passing by at an alarming rate. It only feels like yesterday that I was sitting here at the end of 2014, preparing to release my short story 'This Is Not An Exit' for early 2015, and planning for the year ahead creatively. It's now the end of 2015, and I've succeeded in the goals I set for myself, for which I honestly couldn't be prouder. Not only did I manage to release 'This Is Not An Exit' and exercise some of those creative demons so to speak, but I finally managed to release 'When Justice Comes Calling' after over two and a half years of hard work. As I've detailed previously, I first began work on 'When Justice Comes Calling' in May 2013, and it was a far different animal than the finished product that you can read today. I became frustrated with myself and the direction the project was taking, and decided to switch gears and write a far shorte

"I bounce around and laugh and sing and dance and joke and cheer everyone up because what else am I for? And I know I really am good at stuff, lots of stuff, and I know I have a family that loves me, and I really am happy most of the time, I AM, and I want other people to be happy too... but not always. And the rest of the time... I don't let people see." I've been doing a lot of thinking, perhaps a little bit too much recently as I often do, but I thought I'd kind've open myself up with this blog entry - I'm hoping it'll be cathartic for me to get this written down. It may come across as a jumbled up mess, but hey, with what I'm trying to tackle I think I'm entitled to a free pass on this one. I can never remember having kind of worrying thoughts or feelings as a kid - I loved school, had great mates and family, the works. I was doing a lot of inward thinking this weekend just gone, thinking about life and me as a person, and it

"This is it. This is your story. It all begins here." One door closes, another door opens. I'm 24 going on 25, almost a quarter of a century on this planet, and far removed from my teenage years. With that said, as I move forward, I have three goals in mind that I want to achieve by this time next year: - I want to find a new job, maybe. I love the place I work as well as the people I work with, but my true love and passion is writing, and it continues to nag at me every day. If I could find a job in that field, I can feel truly fulfilled and by that token, have a body of work I can be proud of. - I want to find a girlfriend, someone to share my experiences with, not to mention my interests and hers, maybe eventually start a life together. I want somebody to spoil, a woman who I can proudly introduce to friends and family alike. - I want to find a place to move to, a place of my own to call my own or to share with friends/flatmates and be indepen

Hello there! First things first... Live-Action trailer sounds so snazzy and professional, doesn't it?! =P The video above took a fair few hours and hard work to put together, and I really hope that it shows in the finished product. Please feel free to share it, like it, let others know about it, and most importantly, let  me know what you think - feedback is pivotal to me. I hope I got the atmosphere and tone right, and that it's got you thinking about what the story has in store! As for When Justice Comes Calling itself, the project is back with a vengeance, and on course to be released in the latter part of the year (my aim is for a August/September release, but I put 'LATE 2015' in the trailer just in case the date gets pushed back). I've reworked the story from the ground up, streamlining it and developing it, and I think it's safe to say that the final draft is looking more and more polished as each day passes. I have to bear in mind that I started the proj

Hey guys, quick blog entry on the exciting news of a brand new Alien movie that was announced this morning! As a huge fan of the franchise, and owner of the Alien Anthology and Prometheus , this news has me pretty damn excited. I've always been a huge fan of the Alien franchise, ever since I reached my teens and saw Aliens for the very first time. The space setting, the horror elements, the action elements, the pacing, the bleakness, the Xenomoph's, I loved all of it. I went out to watch Alien 3 which I think has its merits, and whilst a flawed film, it's still an enjoyable watch. Alien: Resurrection is... eh. VERY flawed, a few redeeming qualities but they are few and far between in my mind. I only sat down and watch the original Alien movie from 1979 a few years ago, constantly worried it would be too dated for my liking; instead, I was stunned by how well it held up for even today's standards, and I put it right alongside Aliens as my of my favourite films o

My earliest memory of the most successful Marvel character in history is surprisingly not the comic books from which Spiderman came from. I was going through my old collection (of over 175 issues) and noticed the earliest issue was from January 1997 (and what a horrifying cover it is too!) . I did some digging; turns out my earliest memory of Spiderman is the 1994 animated series that used to air on Live & Kicking. Ah, memories - and speaking of memory, mine is better than I thought! I would've been 3 or 4 years old at the time Spiderman began airing. I remember also for my 5th birthday in Wales being given a Spiderman VHS tape (remember those?!) as a present which featured the debut of Venom. No wonder he's still one of my favourite villains to this day!  The 1994 Spiderman cartoon was amazing.   The Spiderman cartoon was a pretty damn faithful adaption of the comics, and included all the popular characters from Spidey's illustrious rouge gallery - G

I'm honestly not sure where to start with Death Note, because the series caught me completely off-guard when I started watching it a month or so ago. As chronicled in my Fullmetal Alchemist retrospective back in October , I had re-discovered my love for anime, and was on a quest to start watching more series' that were available on Netflix. I started off with Sword Art Online which held my attention for the first season (a retrospective of that will be written when I finally get round to watch season two), but none of the other shows on Netflix particularly appealed to me. Chris, a colleague at work, had suggested that I started watching Death Note, as it was the series that sparked his interest in anime. Figuring I had nothing to lose, and seeing the universal praise it'd received on the internet, I decided to buy the boxset of 37 episodes. I popped the first disc in just before Christmas, and... something didn't click. I'm still not 100% sure what

Let me tell you a tale; my tale. The tale of William James Powell, of Sutton Surrey, England. It began on April 5th 1991 when I was born. I was born very premature, a twin along with my brother Leonard. He unfortunately didn't make it, but I did. Grew up in a happy family household with my parents, surrounded by a loving family. I can never really remember enjoying drawing. Sure, there is evidence to contradict this, specifically old drawings of Spiderman and Sonic The Hedgehog that I did at a young age, but as far back as I can remember, I've loved writing. I did pretty good in primary school writing, loved to write short stories to read out in show and tell, and would always beam with joy in secondary school when we got a creative writing homework assignment. Me and my wonderful parents, Tina and Richard. I had absolutely everything mapped out after finishing with two A's in both English Language and English Literature in my GCSE's - I was going