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.
What pissed Jack off this week A.P. Atkinson It’s about time Jack wrote a blog, said nobody whatsoever. So, Jack decided to do exactly that. There are several things that are pissing me off lately so I thought I’d just go through them in no particular order, bitching about stuff like a proper English gentleman […]
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Writer’s block – Why it doesn’t really exist. Seth Godwynn Writer’s block is a dreadful affliction that catches us all at times. It’s a moment in the life of an author where he sits before his monitor as it glows back at him and his mind goes blank. It then stays blank and stubbornly refuses
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Supernatural Trolling (When the unexplained is the status quo) Seth Godwynn If you were to ask me if I believed in the supernatural, then like any normal person, I would answer, No, of course not. It’s all a load of old nonsense. However, over the years, that load of old nonsense has presented me with
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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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