Welcome to the complete and rapidly-growing, awesome and perplexing collection of articles from our team of writers. Here you’ll find them writing about whatever they feel like doing so it’s a wildly mixed bag. Dip your toe in the shallow-end of creative free expression here.
Why not planning your novel is a waste of everyone’s time Seth Godwynn Another debate we see these days is between authors who think that planning their novel is the best approach, versus the people who think they can just sit down in front of a laptop and pour out a best-selling novel. We all […]
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Why do we Write? Seth Godwynn Novels come in all shapes and sizes, and from every corner of the mostly cornerless globe. It’s easy to look down our noses at cliché-ridden tripe filled with vampires, weird sexual fetishes, or any other flash-in-the-pan genre that was popular before, but hasn’t quite fizzled out yet. We might
Themes What they are and how not to kill your story with them A.P. Atkinson For some reason, people generally tend to be very bad at spotting themes. Although it involves complex abstract philosophical concepts, these are in essence just simple basic ideas that resonate with all human beings at some level. For this reason,
People Don’t Read Anymore! A.P. Atkinson One of the biggest complaints we hear today is how people don’t read books anymore. It’s a growing concern, and it’s one of the most serious issues facing the publishing industry and authors today. But, is it a fair criticism? Does it even make the slightest sense? The world
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Show or Tell Seth Godwynn When it comes to writing, there’s one convention that generally holds true. It’s common wisdom that you should show and not tell. Of course sometimes you have to tell, but as sweeping generalisations go, this one does make rather a lot of sense. Telling is when the author, the narrator
How to Create a Book Title A.P. Atkinson A lot of people wonder how to come up with a title for their novel. It’s not like the names of a character, where you can just go online and look for names and check out the meanings behind them. Titles are largely unique and there’s no
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Top 5 ways to waste your life on the internet Internonsense – Part 2 A.P. Atkinson The internet is a fantastic tool, all information can be shared so that a person can become fully informed of all sides of an argument and form well-rounded, balanced opinions. But we don’t use it for that, we use
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Internonsense – Part 1 Jack and Seth The internet is the source of the world’s very finest nonsense, stupidity and outright bullshit. We live in an age where common-sense has been exchanged for a handful of magic beans, where writers come out in support of book-bannings and Mr Potatohead became the new face of villainy
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