Operation Concrete

NEON & CONCRETE: The Mission Statement

NEON & CONCRETE - The Mission Statement: To provide a collaborative media project bringing together short stories based on neo-noir and existential aesthetics with inspiration from the art of 3D render community. I am a long-time believer in the power of collaborative media. No ...Read More

The Trial of Gravity – A novel by Richard Galbraith

So, I’m in a comfortable enough place now to reveal – without sounding too pretentious – the workings of the next novel and what I want to achieve with it. Whilst my work with Concrete Operational is still in full swing, ...Read More

"So it's Monday morning and I've been very bad over the weekend which means now I'm drastically behind schedule, but I still believe that I can do this. The problem is trying to keep a social life and write a ...Read More

"So, another evening of writing and some more character and story development, all good. Our hero, Push Burrows, has taken further steps and so has his military side-kick / brother in arms Mann Michael's. It's a really cool development actually ...Read More

"So, I'm using SpinVox to blog during National Novel Writing Month which began Saturday. Which means I just call a number and talk, their computer does some tricks and I get a post in my 'pending' box in my Wordpress ...Read More

Here it is, the fruits of my labour, for you to read and enjoy. Concrete Operational - Alpha v0.8 Germany Germany has been taken out of a world that feeds on the ignorance of its people. A world that is dominated ...Read More

I love walking into my local G&D's cafe in Oxford, grabbing a cup of tea, opening up my laptop, sitting down in the middle of the room, sticking my headphones in, looking at faces and letting go. Controlled breathing, a ...Read More

On an instinctual level I like to believe books are there to raise questions, to grip you by the throat and make you challenge everything you every thought was right. They can make you surf an emotional tidal wave of ...Read More

I'm extremely happy right now, I just broke 42k words. This basically marks the 3/5 point of the novel. It's probably just over half way, but not quite three quarters, that's why I went with that slightly odd fraction of ...Read More

Last time I quickly looked at painting a person, creating a being, with words. I thought for this post I may as well look quickly at actually creating an environment, surroundings, a landscape in which to place that person. Speaking ...Read More