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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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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Movement focus: postmodernist literature
First came modernist literature – but in the 1950s and 60s, postmodernist writing emerged as the next logical step on. Characterised by intertextuality and fragmentation, postmodernist writing often rejects meaning…
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Movement focus: literary modernism
Literary modernism is a type of writing characterised by a focus on change, rebirth and destruction. Emerging from an uncertain time where there was a lot of industrial and social…
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Movement focus: absurdist fiction
Absurdist fiction doesn’t take itself too seriously – it relies heavily on comedic and surreal elements to explore darker themes such as existentialism. Oftentimes, absurdist fiction is told non-chronologically, and…
Impish Fen 