Category: Writing
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Everything that Worldcon taught me about indie authors that I didn’t know I needed to ask
Well, so that was a Worldcon. Oof. I mean, it was wonderful. It was intense. It was people. It was information. It was magic. It was science. It was huge. It was joyful. It was exhausting. I haven’t quite put it into order in my head yet. Worldcon, if you…
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My top 10 imaginary worlds, part 2
Click here to read Part 1 Welcome to the second part of this article about my top 10 imaginary worlds. Imaginary worlds are very real to their enthusiasts. While I would never wish to question the reality of millions of French, Spanish, Italian or American people, or the inhabitants of…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
Oliver Arditi 