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My top 10 imaginary worlds, part 1
This is a blog about writing, but it’s about the specific aspects of writing that I’m most interested in. Probably top of that list is worldbuilding. In fact, I’d go so far as to say I’m interested in worldbuilding first, and storytelling second—although I’d also suggest that you can’t do one of those well if… 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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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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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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What in the world?
Welcome to my blog. I’m a fantasy fiction writer, and I’m going to write about the process of bringing a project to fruition, and finding it a home in the publishing world. Hopefully it will be an interesting story, and if you’re an aspiring or early career writer, it should be a good guide to… Read more
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Both sides of the street
Songs can be many things. In written literature there are names for them, but songs, we seem to think, are all first and foremost songs. They can be collections of images, the sort of things we call poems when they’re printed. They can be short narratives, stories as they are known elsewhere—the ballad is a… Read more
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