writing advice
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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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I have always been driven and ambitious. I’ve always known what I wanted to do with my life and what I wanted to accomplish. As such for a long time now rest has always been something of a vague concept for me. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with a single mother who I always…