by Helen Brain | Jan 12, 2017
I’m focusing on creating a mythology for Celestia this month. It’s complicated and right now it feels impossible to conjure this whole world out of nothing. Then I have to make sure the story hangs together and the world is consistent. I have to think...
by Helen Brain | Dec 13, 2016
When I first came up with the idea of Elevation, I struggled to imagine what Cape Town would be like if the sea rose 83 meters. I’m not very good with spacial stuff, and my sense of Geography is rubbish too, so I needed help. First I did some research and came...
by Helen Brain | Dec 13, 2016
This is my dog Isidingo. I love her more than any dog I’ve ever owned. We adopted her at the saddest point of my life, when my husband Luke was dying, and she has been at my heels ever since, following me from room to room, and sleeping next to my bed at night....
by Helen Brain | Dec 13, 2016
This year my creativity has been attacked from an unexpected quarter. In February we adopted a puppy from a shelter. Harry was a happy, sweet, golden mishmash of Africanis, Labrador and Great Dane staring up at us from the puppy pen and whining that he’d chosen us....
by Helen Brain | Aug 27, 2016
I found these in a charity shop. I was amused by the way I could create a narrative by putting the scary revolving head dolly in front of the framed postcards of the Dutch children. I ended up buying them of course, to add to the piles of junk -with – potential...
