Blogs and creative writing
I’ve set up this page to act as my portfolio and a home for my written work – and to encourage me to continually write and improve!
I have experience in writing many different lengths, formats and topics: see my work in the wild with an SEO-stuffed article about the benefits of pixel marketing, or a descriptive piece on the importance of health and safety measures for disabled workers.
I’m also publishing regular blog posts about the creative writing process, interesting diversions of literature, genre and much more!
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Regular writing habits: what works?
Everyone knows sitting down with the goal in mind of a wordy, unwieldy epic is a nigh-impossible task (at least without copious amounts of substances – NOT recommended!), but there…
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Roman à clef – story with a key
A Roman à clef story is a blend between fiction and non-fiction, as they are usually retellings of real occurrences, but some details, names or events will be changed. This…
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Writing good ghouls: tips for ghost stories
Spooky writing starts with an eerie atmosphere, and then writers are free to sprinkle in as many mentions of ghouls, dilapidated mansions or dingy moors as they’d like to. These…
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Hyped up: hypo- and hypertext
A lot of created media out there has little easter eggs, influences or adaptions from other materials, meaning that intertextuality is more than just a question of ‘which came first?’…
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Thanks, Shakespeare – Word and phrasing origins from the Bard
Shakespeare did a lot of writing – some of which was done to allegedly create his own words, phrases and sayings. He added on prefixes and suffixes, combined words, changed…
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Types of publisher: small press, indie journals and more!
Harking back to the very first post to be published on Impish Fen, when the time is right to submit your writing to a journal, magazine or other flavour of…
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