It feels like a natural moment to pause and take stock. I currently stand on the edge of a precipice, ready to dive into depths that I have been working towards and preparing for the majority of my life. I …
Read more →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, …
Read more →Whether we are aware of it or not, we spend our lives consuming the creations of others. This goes from food, to clothing, to technology, to films, to books, to art, and on. And where there are creations, there must, …
Read more →Genre fiction and academia, historically, have not been natural bed fellows. Or at the very least, they are rarely presented as such. During my years at university, I experienced an interesting array of responses to the fact that what I …
Read more →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 →It seems only natural that whilst I am currently undertaking a monolithic worldbuilding task to go into some greater discussion of the things involved for myself and other fantasy writers. There are many aspects to worldbuilding, partly because it is …
Read more →Social media memories can be a fantastic way of accidentally discovering milestone days. Today, it turns out, is one year on from the day that I received the information that not only had my thesis passed, but it had done …
Read more →I have previously mentioned in a few different blogs about my experiences as a writer during my education where I have encountered people who have dismissed or not fully understood what I do and why. These experiences are not the …
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 …
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