Hello everyone! I hope 2020 is going well for you and that you’re managing to keep up with your writing goals (disclaimer: I’m not). The other day I was thinking about how certain novels have a big part to play in developing our writing, and wanted to share my personal list with you, including specific…
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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….
Epistolary! Lusty Lovers of Letter Writing
The epistolary style is defined as a story which unfolds through documents such as: letters, newspaper articles, diary entries; even emails and blog posts! Despite its limitations, there are many interesting benefits, some of which I’ve outlined below. So read on and enjoy, in honour of the precursor to the novels we love today, the…
3 Ways Shirley Jackson Can Help You Improve as a Writer
Shirley Jackson (b. 1916) is perhaps best known for her 1959 gothic horror The Haunting of Hill House and her seminal short story The Lottery (1948); a piece of writing so controversial The New Yorker was inundated with hate mail from disapproving readers. Jackson is one of my favourite authors and after reading a short…