The Legacy of the Rings
What I call Tolkein’s Legacy of the Rings doesn’t kick-start the fantasy genre. It originates in the roots of story telling. …
What I call Tolkein’s Legacy of the Rings doesn’t kick-start the fantasy genre. It originates in the roots of story telling. …
The website has a re-boot for 2021. This is mainly to re-focusing on writing and creativity. There’s a whole stack of new material in progress as 2021 heads toward a major shift toward fiction writing and publishing. …
We’re currently watching Brandon Sanderson’s Free Writing Course online. Fantasy author Sanderson‘s 2020 BYU Lecture Series – Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, is online for free on Youtube.
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BBC radio launches ‘Word Matters’ from 5-Live this month, a campaign focused on the estimated 9 million adults in the UK who struggle to read and write. The news and sports channel aims to start the biggest conversation across the UK about adult literacy. It follows 5-Live’s campaign on adult mental health in 2020. …
As the serialised Kindle Vella goes live in the US, analysis and speculation about how it will work go into overdrive. …
‘Starting the story in the middle’: that’s the Latin term in medias res. The Greek playwrights understood it well. Don’t start with a boatload of exposition, get into the action and explain things as you go. Horace named it but writers have been using it since writing began.
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This week I’m attending the ProWritingAid Crime Writer’s Week 2021. Not because I’m crafting a police procedural or whodunnit, or even because we read a lot of crime writing. ProWritingAid’s first ever Crime Writer’s Week for crime and thriller authors has a lot of valuable content for any writer. …
Another way to think about plot is Joe Nassise’s Seven Elements of Story Structure. Last seen at [2022’s] Plot Forest Summit, best selling author and coach Nasisse has his version hooked up like an express train. …
This BBC Arts thread continues on the iPlayer with Inside Cinema’s Strong Female Characters. It’s a barely-there critique that fails to nail marketing over actual writing. …
What’s in a name? If you have anything less common than a Smith, Jones or Williams, looking into the origin of your family name can take you to some fascinating and unexpected places. …