How to Write a Book While Working Full-time

If you’re like me, working full-time with that stubborn dream clinging to you like a leech, then it’s still possible to churn a book out in a year. It’s just harder and requires a lot of dedication.

A Quick Guide to World Building

World building is integral to a fantasy world. It’s a character as much as the rest of your cast. So what do you need to think about when you’re building a world?

Creating a Villain for the Twenty-first Century

We’re breaking away from villain stereotypes. They are no longer people who have been created as evil incarnations. Now writers are no longer fearful of showing the visible villains that protagonists are fighting against.

The Power of Repetition

Repetition can be a powerful and effective writing technique. Whether it’s repeating a single word or phrase, like Patrick Ness often does, or whether it’s looping back to an idea throughout your story, it can add an extra depth, and pack an extra emotional punch.

5 Manga Recommendations For People Who Don’t Read Manga

Lately, I’ve been really pleased by the amount of manga love I’ve seen on bookstagram. When I dipped my toe into bookstagram back in 2015, there was no cross-over between people reading western novels and eastern comics. People read one or the other. Now, it makes me so happy to see people who would have…

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Reordering My Bookshelves

I’ve always struggled to find a way of ordering my bookshelves that suits me, but now I think I might have found my own dewey decimal system.

Building My Library

Some people dream of having a walk-in wardrobe. I, like so many of my fellow bibliophiles, have always dreamed of having my own library. Something on the par with Beast’s library from Beauty and the Beast would be nice, but I was happy to settle for smaller.