writing
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2025 has been the eternal year hasn’t it? And the fact it is both already October and only October should tell you quite a bit about just how long this year has felt. Due to… reasons, I’ve dealt a lot with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Lack of stable work makes things incredibly stressful, utter…
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Does anyone care?Does it even matter?Am I ever going to achieve my dreams as a creative? Am I ever going to get published? Is it even worth trying? What if I’m not good enough? Not talented enough? What if I am just mediocre and not as skilled as I think I am? I can’t tell…
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Part of the process of outlining (really part of the process of writing a story at all), arguably one of the most challenging aspects of the process is fleshing out your ideas. Taking a concept from a one or two sentence premise, and giving it substance is by no means an easy task. Even before…
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There’s an old saying that goes, “a failure to plan is a plan to fail”, I’m not entirely sure how much I agree with this sentiment in terms of writing —but I will say this, having an outline makes the job a hell of a lot easier. In the beginning of my journey as a…
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To say that 2025 has been a mentally taxing year would be something of an understatement. Actually, 2025 has been a mentally taxing decade and that we still have three months left of it is not especially helpful. Looking back thus far on my year it’s hard to believe that this is the same year…
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What’s in a Character and where are we anyway? | A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Writing (without AI)
Characters Despite what some on the internet would seemingly have you believe, the characters that a writer creates are not in fact direct 1-1 parallels of themselves. Even if the characters are similar to the author and even if they’re somewhat based on the author. This isn’t to say that characters never bear any resemblance…
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Ideas are like opinions, it seems like everybody has one. One of the most common arguments that I have heard recently when it comes to the use of genAI in writing (and why people argue it should be acceptable) is the idea that “oh well a real person had to come up with the idea…
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Over the course of my life I have had a great deal of friends who were writers like myself. We all have different styles of writing, different preferred genres, and crucially, different styles of how we planned (or in my case at the time, didn’t) our stories. One of my friends in particular in my…
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This might disappoint you to hear, but my first piece of advice actually has nothing to do with writing per se and everything to do with what you do before you start writing. Reading. Nearly every writer that you know would agree that reading is absolutely fundamental to becoming a writer. Now I’m not Stephen…