From time to time, all of us will seek the advice of others. Those we look up to, those we know, those who are the first to turn up on page one of our Google search. The journey of writing, …
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In my final Patreon Q&A of 2020, I was asked how I know what to keep in and what to leave out when it comes to my world building. This is something that many people struggle with, particularly when getting …
Read more →In my last blog I talked a lot about the place that crafting an internal logic has for fantasy pieces in particular. As I mentioned in that blog, this all falls under the very broad umbrella of world building. I …
Read more →In my Q&A a couple of months ago on Patreon, I wrote a little bit about how to improve dialogue. This is something that almost every story will include, and from my experiences in workshops throughout University, it seems to …
Read more →Previously, I began the discussion about the writing process, and in many ways it feels like quite an amorphous thing, even though it has very concrete factors. This is something that we all engage with, whether consciously or not. In …
Read more →Discovering your writing process is probably one of the most important things you will do as a writer. This is a huge part of your development and growth, and isn’t necessarily something that will materialise in a flash. For me, …
Read more →Quite recently (as in last month), I started doing something that I’ve never done before, which was writing out what I call “character blurbs” for my minor characters. I’ve never done this before (and I was late in coming to …
Read more →I‘m pretty sure any writer will tell you: your character’s names are IMPORTANT. Their degree of importance will vary from author to author, but for some, such as myself, it will make or break that character. If I don’t believe …
Read more →So, if you’ve been reading my earlier posts, you’ll know that the current theme for my advice is writer’s block. The two previous posts were about techniques that are for dealing with writer’s block once it’s happened. In an ideal …
Read more →So this is an extension of something I mentioned in my last post about my top 3 tips for dealing with Writer’s Block, and mainly regards the first and third methods – the Baby, and the Battle. So what even …
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