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Hells to the Yells (Black, 2018). That’s right I’m still here! Those of you that have been following me for a while will know that I hsve been on social media for a long time and then suddenly quit nearly three years back. Facebook was the last bit of social media I left. However, I […]
Read More The Trollking Saga YouTube ChannelThe Verge: 2018 Hugo Award winners: the best science fiction and fantasy literature
Author in Transition
I know. I’ve been neglecting you. I could give you a list of reasons, all of them good, logical, honest and inadequate. The truth is that I have been writing intermittently; switching projects, writing new stuff, writing old stuff, then writing some more new stuff. I have been in-between different jobs in my other […]
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Regret – A Sufi Poem
Regret is such a fine emotional blessing It causes forgiveness in the wrathful Feel remorse for those who we offended Repent our trespasses against our Lord Cherish what moments we have left together – Nasrullah Anwar
Read More Regret – A Sufi PoemHero Syndrome
A friend of mine posed a question on Facebook about who are our favourite fictional heroes. The archetypal hero is tall, handsome, square-jawed, muscular, white and male. He charges to the rescue without a second thought and heroically goes about looking for damsels in distress and no-gooders up to no good. Think Kevin Sorbo’s Hercules […]
Read More Hero SyndromeHow to Create Friction Between Character and Scene
Originally posted on Read to Write Stories:
What Burns Away, the debut novel by Melissa Falcon Field, has been called “thrilling” and “perceptive” by Tin House executive editor Michelle Wildgren. In life, people tend to work together. At weddings, when the crazy uncle is drinking too much and telling offensive jokes, the rest of the family…
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Three Parts of the Writing Process That Get Authors Stuck: And How To Work Through the Halts
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
One of the toughest things about writing fiction is getting stuck. We get stuck SO OFTEN as authors…. One of the keys to success is simply finding ways to overcome the doubt about our stories and our abilities that getting stuck thrusts upon us. Me, I’ve…
