Oliver Arditi

I’m a writer. This is not a matter of choice, or inclination, or a statement of my profession. It’s an unavoidable facet of my person: I exist through the vehicle of that activity. Writing is always a matter of life and death for me.

I came to this realisation after many years convinced I was a musician. For this reason I spent a lot of time writing about music, mainly in the form of album reviews. However, I eventually became disillusioned with the realities of that particular form of intertextual play, and after more than ten years of regular posting my blog ground to a halt.

While I was reviewing music, and other cultural artefacts, I was also pursuing a long-term fantasy worldbuilding project, which has finally reached the stage of ‘I’ve nearly finished something you can read’. It occurred to me that it might be interesting to document that process, and for the first time in a long time, I began to feel like blogging again. This site is my personal website, but as I am as yet unpublished in the world of fiction, its primary purpose at the moment is to host my blog. This covers my journey, but it also covers the journey to publication in a more general way, and many other topics related to the craft of writing, and the craft of selling it.