Tag: writing

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 form the basis of the popular conventions of ghost stories, but as with all age-old plots, there are also those that buck the trend and…

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?’ Varying degrees of influence have their way with texts, such as storylines being lifted and reskinned with different characters, popular tropes carrying across genres –…

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 nouns into verbs and did other such wizardry too – often, he has been credited with the first written usage of the word. Society at…

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 publisher, you’ll probably be wanting to find the right fit for your work. Aspects like tone, theme, season, length and a whole heap of other…

There are many different types of established publishers that you could entrust your work to – or the option to forgo any external parties and choose to do it yourself. But depending on what you want for your work, there are drawbacks and positives to each way of publishing, so in this article we’ll delve…

There is a lot of media in the world, with plenty more being produced and published as we speak – and a lot of demand for different types of media, too. What was once a market just for physical books quickly became films, then eBooks, and further blossomed into audio books and beyond! In this…