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.
Scams – Part 1 (Vanity and Hybrid-Publishing) By: Does it even matter at this point? So you’ve finished writing your novel. You’ve planned a great story, one with a fantastic and detailed plot that highlights your fascinating, vibrant characters. You’ve embedded a strong emotional core, and the narrative is littered with literary markers, metaphors and […]
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Freytag’s Pyramid The Legendary Guide to Plotting and Scheming A.P. Atkinson and The Other Guy The plot is the backbone of your story; it’s the tale you’re telling. If you get it wrong, you’re cheating your reader and selling them a hollow, empty illusion. The ending should feel like a reward, like a final moment
The Bad Place Edgeverse is proud to announce an upcoming compendium of the macabre, a triumph of the twisted and a celebration of the shocking. There is a place where reason and common-sense fears to dwell. Beyond fear and loathing, outside of normality and logic where ideas crash into the whims of human fancy. It
The Leading Edge A.P. Atkinson – Seth Godwynn One novel, Edge, now has a brief video introduction that tells a little of the back-story of where this idea came from. Watch it to find out where the inspiration and central ideas originated. Edge is our central novel, set far in the future aboard a crumbling
Waking Up to Woke Seth Godwynn & A.P. Atkinson A question that often comes up when people complain about ‘wokeness’ is “How exactly are you defining woke?” This is a purely rhetorical question, based on the presumption that nobody really knows what it means, because it doesn’t exist in any formally established sense. It’s a
Internonsense – Part ‘something’ A.P. Atkinson Last week we had a book-launch which is one of the worst things you can possibly do as an author. It’s a bit like swallowing a bag of glitter and then expecting to shit out a Christmas present for someone who doesn’t even like you. Much like the time
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What pissed off Jack this week – again A.P. Atkinson Jack gets pissed off about a lot of things, it comes with the territory as you get older and it’s easier to embrace it than to make an effort to smile at people. Consequently, there net-result of all this is that there isn’t an awful
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The Jailer Card Seth Godwynn After living in Japan for five years, I met the minimum standard to apply for citizenship, and decided that was exactly what I would do. It was a combination of practical considerations, and just feeling it to be the right thing to do under the circumstances, something that I would
The Worst Ways to Begin a Conversation A.P. Atkinson There are many fantastic ways to open a conversation with a stranger, such that you completely engage their attention, and they desperately need to find out more about you. We have absolutely no idea what they might be, so we just did the complete opposite, as
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