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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Genre focus: Gothic literature
A genre that goes by many names and has a whole heap of sub-genres to explore, gothic literature is a heavy-hitter, with many examples, influences and admirers over the literary…
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Writing subplots: types of storyline
The role of the storyteller is to, erm… tell a story! However, there is a delicate balance between threading in extra details about a backstory or other characters and creating…
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Titles and naming conventions
Though the saying is to never judge a book by its cover, there are plenty of additional factors that pull people in and persuade them to pick up a book…
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Paratext: peritext and epitext
Literary theorist Gérard Genette stated that external aspects of a book (like the cover and blurb) can work alongside the text itself to provide helpful insights into a literary work.…
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Antithesis and opposition
Antithesis is a rhetorical device used to create dissonance between 2 opposite ideas. Often, the gap is so cataclysmic that it paints a clearer picture of an event, person or…
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Letter case
Obviously, you’ll have seen letter cases before – such as proper nouns, or the start of sentences being capitalised. And while there are some normal capitalisation and case rules to…
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