Fantasy
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Hello all! As I have made very clear in most of my posts, I am an aspiring novellist: I want to write stories, to create characters and to share my bizarre worldview in a palatable form. Thus, there is no bigger opportunity for me to do this than to partake in the grand literary escapade…
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~Ah, Terry Pratchett. How I love thy books~ Terry Pratchett had to be one of my favourite writers of all time, though I only started reading him long after his death in 2014. His approach to characters and fantasy was altogether unorthodox – I’ve never seen such an intimate, funny setting in all my life!…
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Hey up all!Now, what do you think is missing in today’s post, eh? Notice the concerning absence of a PDF or some pretentious title? Where’s the bloody monday short?! I cannot justify skipping this week’s short story – I admit, nothing I was producing seemed even remotely close to the quality I ought to serve…
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Hello dearies. Now, this decided to do something a bit different for this weekend update to kind of extend last week’s moral a bit (TLDR make writing difficult for yourself) – as you might’ve guessed from the title, I’m handing out prompts to the unwilling congregation! If you are in need of something to curb…
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Good morning! Thus begins my very first real piece of prose that I’ve posted on this blog – a short story! I’m going to be honest with you, I kind of cheated a little bit with this one – this piece was kind of a conglommeration of two pieces I wrote for my August “Writing…
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Hello you lot! I’m still in the process of trying to scrape together some more novel writing advice for this week, but I’m a bit behind – I’ll release something tomorrow morning, if I can. I’m going down the route of character design again here; beyond just protagonists. Remember, I have a character-questionnaire resource available…
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Hey up! Apologies for missing out on making a writing advice post for yesterday; I happened to be very busy helping out with family and friends who’d come to stay, not to mention working away at writing for my novel and a little writing course I’m taking part in. As good as this sight is…
Ben Easton - The Novel Hovel 