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Two-Body Problems: Romance as a Genre
In classical mechanics, the two-body problem has a clean, exact solution. Add a third body and the system turns chaotic, which any writer of love triangles could have told Newton for free.
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Something Is Wrong: Horror, Structure and a Very Large Ape
Week 2 – Analysing the Horror Genre – From the journey to the chase and the role of the unheimlich.
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Order, Chaos and a Box of Chocolates: Notes from Week One of Writing in Different Genres
Notes from Week 1 at Birckbeck – Writing in Different Genres. Looking at genre, layers, tones and plot.
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Now Reading: Proof
Mathematical monsters, Gödel’s constitutional loophole, and modelling a pandemic with the clock running. Kucharski’s Proof is about the gap between being right and being believed.
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What Does It Take to Fly? – A Children’s Book
On writing for children, the four forces of flight, and why understanding something never makes it smaller. My book “What Does It Take to Fly?” is out now on Apple Books in English and Spanish — plus a note on playwriting, counselling studies, and where a scriptwriting MA might fit.
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Creating Consistent Characters with AI
I wrote a children’s book, then tried to illustrate it — and the same girl wouldn’t survive thirty pages. The problem wasn’t my prompts. It was that the model has no object permanence, and no amount of describing her fixes that.
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Now Reading: The Coming Wave
If most tech books try to explain what’s coming, The Coming Wave tries to force a more uncomfortable question: what happens when powerful capabilities stop being scarce? Mustafa Suleyman argues that AI and synthetic biology aren’t just the next innovation cycle, they’re a shift in how power itself is distributed. As the cost of doing complex, high-impact things collapses, control doesn’t scale with it. The real issue isn’t whether these technologies are good or…