Ten Tips For Short Story Writing
Aaron Miles
Short stories can be great fun to write, but sometimes tough to get the knack of. For anyone who wants to try their luck at this form, I’ve come up…
Writing
Surviving NaNoWriMo 2016
Trent Cannon
Ah, National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for short (or NaNo for shorter)). We meet again. For the…I don’t even know. How many times is it now? Five? Six? It’s…
Worldbuilding: Using The Creation Story To Help Design A Belief System
B. Pine
Is a faith system vital to any fantasy story? Definitely. Even in a fictional setting, people need a raison d’être and comforting explanations for the mysteries of life. Religion is…
Potions, Alchemy, & Apothecaries: Inspirations from the Real World
Nicola Alter
A witch hunched over a bubbling cauldron; a reclusive alchemist searching for the secret to eternal life; a hooded figure procuring a poison from a shady apothecary… While these are…
A Cast of Roles
Through the course of a novel, the author will create and introduce a wide array of different characters to the reader. Often they might do it on automatic, smoothly introducing…
Syncing Scrivener Files Between Computers Using Dropbox
Adrian Faulkner
One of the simple joys of writing is the fact that it can be done anywhere. All you need is pen and paper. Some writers prefer the structure of a…
Making A Connection
Most people think of reading as a purely intellectual pursuit, but the best books are the ones that inspire emotion in the reader. While you can appreciate a novel on…
Another Point (of View) – Part Two: Third Person
Geoff Matthews
Last time, as you recall, or maybe you don’t, we looked at narration in the first-person. It has, as a writing style, many good points and some pitfalls. Well, third-person…
Worldbuilding: Don’t Neglect The Landscape
You have your story, your plot, your characters, sub-texts and themes. On a piece, or several, of paper you have sketched out a map, worked out the travel distances and…
Character Group Dynamics
One of the most important tasks of a writer is to get the reader to engage with their characters, but almost as important is how your characters engage with each…
What I Learned as a Tabletop Gamer
In news that will shock precisely no one that has spoken to me for any amount of time, I am a massive nerd. Like, huge. I am the kind of…
Everyone’s Got A Point (of View) – Part One: First Person
I’ve never liked violence. Doesn’t mean I’m not good at it, I’m just not fond of it. But survival’s become something of a habit and if that means getting in…