If there’s one certainty about characterisation, it’s that names don’t exist in isolation. It’s tempting to think: do they really matter all that much? After all, our parents chose our name simply because they liked it. Isn’t it enough to do the same with our characters? While this is true to an extent, fiction is not…
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Writing Folk Horror.
I thought there was room to squeeze in another Halloween special before the magic begins; and what better than an article on the hottest creepy sub-genre of recent times! Now largely undefined by location or tropes, ‘folk horror’ was originally used to describe a particular genre of British films spanning the late 1960s to 1970s….
10 Halloween Creative Writing Exercises to Chill and Thrill.
I think I could possibly be Halloween’s number one fan. Watching the leaves change colour and the apples drop ready for a steaming autumnal pie are just two of my favourite seasonal delights. A time when the ancients believed the veil between the world of the living and the dead was so fine, humans could…
5 Literary Genres You May Not Have Heard of
While we’re all familiar with standard literary genres, it can be beneficial to educate ourselves on the subtleties that lie within them. Not only do we become aware of a whole new canon of literature, we’re further increasing our possibility of being inspired! So here are five less common genres and sub-genres, both old and…
What’s My (Writing) Style Again?
I think the master storyteller was right when he said: ‘If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot’—Stephen King King was referring here to the craft of writing; our use of language and the way in which each book we read…