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.
Positioning the Pieces Seth Godwynn “Wow, what an ending! I never saw that coming!” Have you ever got to the end of a really good story and thought that? It’s something we’ve all experienced many times, I’m sure, but it opens up a very interesting question that few ever stop to consider. Why does it […]
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It’s Crazy Not To Be Mad! (The depressing tale of not giving up) A.P. Atkinson I once met an American man in Thailand names Dave. We had been introduced to one another by a mutual friend who thought we had some things in common. All of us were motorcyclists, and this American gentleman had been
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The Curse of Continuity Can Canon at All Costs be a Counterproductive Crutch? By – Seth Godwynn Nobody likes it when a franchise contradicts itself, but often the opposite can be far, far worse. Over-reliance and over-insistence on staying true to an official continuity can often become an off-kilter crutch and an excuse for weak
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Where Did All The Creativity Go? (And Why Does Nobody Want To Publish Your Work?) Seth Godwynn I’m sure you’ve wondered why it is that modern entertainment is filled to overflowing with second-rate crap, while talented writers such as yourself languish, unable to get a publisher interested in reading one of your works. By comparison,
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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
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