Writing Articles

What is the Edgeverse? D.A.I.S.Y Many people haven’t asked what the Edgeverse is, and who better not to explain it properly than our very own Daisy? Daisy is a Dedicated Artificial Intelligence System for Youtube, or at least, she is now after we caught her sniffing around the adult section of Piratebay and downloaded her. […]

Structuring Your Narrative Seth Godwynn From a voyage of discovery to head-hopping omniscience Once you have in mind the broad strokes of your story—your characters, situations, resolutions, all the essential things that have to have happen—it’s time to take a firm stance on how you’re going to approach presenting it. That is to say, you

Self Publishing – Why it so often fails A.P. Atkinson The industry is broken. Like Hollywood, the American money-centric model of publishing books is stale and out of date. It’s failed to keep up with the needs of the audience, and has totally lost touch with what they want from their art. It increasingly drives

Originality Seth Godwynn Something we see in Western media a lot of these days is a growing lack of originality. There was a movie called ‘Battle Royale’, a Japanese film about a group of young people dropped into an arena, where they have to kill each other to the last man. That was the inspiration

Diversity, Sensitivity and Censorship A.P. Atkinson One of the most divisive topics of our time, thanks to an incredibly irresponsible mainstream media, is that of diversity. People have become literally afraid to express themselves out of fear of offending people, or perhaps more specifically, of offending the wrong people. Certain words and opinions have become

Why Grammar is Important A.P. Atkinson A lot of hopeful new future authors ask the same questions on the writing forums. They ask, is grammar, spelling and syntax important? Well, that’s an excellent question, so let’s explore it. The presumption many of them make is that an editor will simply get all of their weaknesses

Basic Grammar Problems Seth Godwynn People often ask what are the most common basic problems of grammar. Sadly, there are no such things. The basic problems we see with people’s writing are simply basic grammar problems. There’s no magic bullet. There aren’t three or four weak areas that can be fixed to turn someone from

Hawk-Eye: Trilogy A.P. Atkinson Hawk Eye is my first completed trilogy. The story development has a ponderous history because I thought it was a terrible idea and avoided doing anything about it for as long as possible. As usual, I blame Seth for everything. I am a child of the 80s so I grew up

How do I become a writer? Rob Burton How do I become a writer? This is a question that’s raised ad infinitum on the Facebook writer’s pages I haunt on a regular basis. We could also ask when did you become a writer? That’s another interesting question and a pertinent one because it’s the one