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The Blackswords S1:E4 ‘The Yellowbird’
The Blackswords is a serial set in my fantasy world, The Inner World, following the misadventures of the eponymous mercenary company. In ‘The Yellowbird’ Ashurra, twin sister of the sorcerer-warrior Maghîllin, is dangerously bored as the company sails away from the fall of Dorna… Read S1:E3 ‘Free Beer’ here. Content warning: violence, explicit sexual content. Read more
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In conversation with Priya Sharma
In the first of an irregular series of interviews, I spoke to the horror and speculative fiction writer Priya Sharma about her working life as a writer. If anything has become clear to me in the time I’ve been taking an interest in writing, it’s that writers are an exceedingly diverse bunch of people, and Read more
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The Blackswords S1:E3 ‘Free Beer’
The Blackswords is a serial set in my fantasy setting, The Inner World, following the misadventures of the eponymous mercenary company. In ‘Free Beer’, the archer Umbaral is riding point, trying to guide what remains of the company to the docks of Dorna, to escape the city before it is overrun. Read S1:E2 ‘Lights Out’ Read more
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What is worldbuilding?
It says right there on the home page of my blog that I’m interested in worldbuilding. This is something, as you may have noticed, that a lot of fantasy and science-fiction writers talk about. It may be something that you do yourself, or you may be wondering what it is. You may think you know Read more
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The Blackswords S1:E2 ‘Lights Out’
The Blackswords is a serial set in my fantasy world, Olnezea, far to the south of the area in which my novel in progress takes place. In this second episode, the mercenary commander Ukhand is eating dinner with the commander who hired him, in the besieged city of Dorna. The time comes for them to Read more
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Extraordinary people, or how to meet writers like you
Hell is other people, or networking for writers It has been suggested that hell is other people. For someone struggling to write, that might well seem to be the case—if only they would stop distracting you, if only they would stop saying things and wanting things, then you might get something written. Myself, I’ve found Read more
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Oliver Arditi 