So, your first question may be – what the hell has travelling in this world got to do with the fantasy world I’m building from scratch? Can you really use travel inspiration when writing when your novel is set in a world that doesn’t really exist? Well, I firmly...
New to the writing world or new to putting yourself out there? It’s a difficult thing to do, whether you would call yourself a shy person or not. Let’s face it, many of us writers are pretty shy. One way people try to minimise this fear of self-promotion is to...
With the festive season underway, I’ve decided to write a post about religious holidays in fantasy and what place they have in your world and novel. If you’re building a world from scratch, it only makes sense to make up some kind of holiday period. Holidays or...
It was recently World Mental Health Day and there has been plenty of content out there regarding mental illness and spreading awareness. I thought I’d throw in my thoughts too. Funnily enough, the reason this post was delayed and didn’t come out around actual...
If you’re a fiction writer yourself, you’ve no doubt been questioned about it. Why do you have your head in the clouds? Why are you daydreaming all the time? If you write something like fantasy fiction, prepare for these questions to become a bit ruder: Why are...
