Like a lot of aspiring writers, I have spent an inordinate amount of time and energy on what my characters say. Recently though, inspired my infatuation with the style of ‘worldbuilding’ you can only find in metal songs, I have started to think about where they say it. Not the content of the voice, but…
It’s been a productive week, I have now drafted 7 of the initial 11 short stories for the first anthology. After a bit of a wobble last week, where I realised that I had been mapping this out for a year, written about half of what I intended and after all that, the output is…
You cannot sit and ignore the world, and then complain when the world ignores you back Building out a story universe is one of those things that, it seems, everyone has some advice for. When I began building out the Echo Walkers Universe 10 months ago, it was an idea borne from, ‘what if my…
