Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
On Characters (including a Deep Dive on my characters) Coming up with new characters for a story is one of the most fun and also daunting tasks for any author. Sometimes it comes easily, with a main character already cast in your mind with your initial idea. Other times its like trying to squeeze out […]
Read More On CharactersSubstack writer Heba Hallak interviewed me recently as part of her article The Muslim Guide to Writing Fiction. Have a read and give her a like: https://open.substack.com/pub/humanitiesnotebook/p/the-muslims-guide-to-writing-fiction?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3q8q1u
Read More New Interview and a Guide for Muslim WritersI launched a podcast today titled … Fantasy and Faith. The first episode was just an intro episode looking at some of my history and the challenges I’ve faced as a writer. Its available on Substack and also on YouTube Podcasts. I would really appreciate your support on either channels. I’ve also published a collaborative […]
Read More Fantasy and Faith1. Introduction Historical fiction is difficult to define in the academic sense. Is it all fiction that is set in the historical past of our world? Brown (1998) suggests that its not that simple. Books set in Ancient Greece or during WW1 may easily be identified as having a historic setting. However, what about stories […]
Read More Muslim Historical Fiction2025 has started and lots of people have begun the year resolving to write a novel. There is lots of advice out there about what a new writer should do, some great and some just plain bad. I have been writing now for over two decades, but I still wouldn’t consider myself an expert. However, […]
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