Creative Things I Sometimes Do

 While writing The Islands, I've realised my prose and my plot points become better when I'm listening to music.  Mostly anything by John Powell or Steve Jablonsky, but particularly John Powell's score for the four Bourne movies, courtesy of Spotify. The annoying adverts provide a rest break.

 In The Islands , the main character is completely different from me.  He's attracted to danger, conflict and the possibility of serious harm; only deflected by his instinctive intelligence (if that isn't a contradiction in terms).  I'm enjoying writing him because he's an escape from myself. I'm more of a Mike. I've just realised that if (in fantasy) this ever got turned into a movie, there's only two guy to play him, and those are Dominic Sherwood, or Dylan Sprayberry.

THE ISLANDS a sub-tropical urban fantasy novel by Colin Meier Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved Don't steal my shit. :) CHAPTER ONE Meaningful coincidences are hard to explain, especially when they are not coincidences at all – but I only learned that later, of course. This is what happened. I was on the beach, shirtless, catching a tan. Well, actually, I was cruising for guys. It was very hot – as usual on our island – and I stopped at the ice-cream concession and ordered a vanilla fudge. I was just walking away when a guy from nowhere tackled me to the ground. I was about to get really angry – something I'm fairly good at – when there was a loud  spat   sound from the sand where I'd been, and then, about a second later, a sound only made by a long rifle firing a large-caliber round. I have an unfortunate history that involves expertise in lethal weapons, including the maxim that  son, the only good weapon is a lethal weapon.  There was a cor...