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, …
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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 →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 →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 →Something I have discovered as I have developed as a writer is how different environments and different mediums affect how I work. By this I mean the environment I am surrounded by, the control I have over it and the …
Read more →There are many things that writers can struggle with across their careers, but two that certainly leap out to me are imposter syndrome and people pleasing. I mentioned both of these in my previous blog post, but only briefly, and …
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