Martial Arts

Interview about writing fight scenes

November 3, 2009
By alan

When I gave the “Write The Fight Right” workshop at Conflux 6 back at the start of October, one of the people attending was Phillip Berrie. He asked me if I’d answer a few questions on the subject for the A Writer Goes On A Journey website. I was more than happy to do...
Read more »

Posted in Fantastic Fiction, Interview, Martial Arts, Writing | 4 Comments »

2009 Australian conventions I’ll be attending

August 8, 2009
By alan

No, I won’t be at over two thousand conventions. I wanted to let you all know about a few convention appearances that are coming up in the remaining months of this year. It’s wonderful when people treat me like a real writer and invite me to be a part of these things. The first...
Read more »

Posted in Convention, Cool, Cool Places to Visit, Dark Fantasy, Ebooks, Fantastic Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Martial Arts, News, Sci-Fi, Writing | 1 Comment »

Anglican minister calls for an army of god to go to war against the Shaolin Monks

October 29, 2006
By alan
Anglican minister calls for an army of god to go to war against the Shaolin Monks

The New South Wales planning minister, Frank Sartor, has given the go ahead for a proposal to build a Shaolin Temple complex on a former dairy farm near Nowra on the NSW South Coast. Under the plan a 1,248 hectare property will be developed into a massive Shaolin complex containing three pagoda temples, places...
Read more »

Posted in Marketing, Martial Arts, Politics, Religion | No Comments »

Art and Kung Fu – a collaboration

March 15, 2006
By alan
Art and Kung Fu – a collaboration

Halinka, my wife and extremely talented artist, has had this idea for some time of trying to get the movements of the footwork of Kung Fu down on paper as an artwork. It’s something she’s toyed with for ages but never really followed up on. Last week she was asked to be part of...
Read more »

Posted in Martial Arts, News | 6 Comments »

Welcome to my word.

March 11, 2006
By alan

Hello, and welcome to my blog. As you can see from the sidebar to the right, I’m passionate about words, images and Kung Fu. A strange combination? Not really. Everything seems strange to somebody and I know there are far stranger people out there than me. This is where I’ll put my words and...
Read more »

Posted in Books, Martial Arts, News, Writing | 3 Comments »

The Word

Words and stories fascinate me. Our world is built on language and storytelling. Without stories, we are nothing.



This is The Word - a place to learn more about me, my stories and the words of others. Click the links along the top for all kinds of stuff, search the sidebars for loads of other stuff, click on book covers for reviews and previews, enjoy the blog and don't be shy to share your words, in comments or send me an email to alan [at]alanbaxteronline[dot]com

STALK ME

Facebook

Twitter

MySpace

Goodreads

Amazon

Posterous

Search The Word

Subscribe

feedburner Receive an email whenever The Word is updated. Enter your email address:

National Archive

This website is archived by the National Library of Australia's Web Archive

Pandora