Monthly Archives: June 2018

Get Yourself Collected by Rosanne Rabinowitz

Posted on 26 June 2018 by Jacey Bedford

So you’ve had a bunch of stories of stories published over the years. Perhaps they were written for themed anthologies – Cthulhu psychogeographical whodunits, alien babysitters, werebuildings and psychic waterfalls? Maybe you can already see patterns emerging from this scattershot … Continue reading →

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Traps of World Building by David Gullen

Posted on 12 June 2018 by Jacey Bedford

It occurred to me that the one great challenge of world-building is that you are, in fact, building a world. What to put in? What to leave out? I’ve recently been reading The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to becoming … Continue reading →

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Listening to Your Characters by Karen Brenchley

Posted on 5 June 2018 by Jacey Bedford

When I was a kid, my favorite toy was a set of tiny wooden figures called Little People, made by the Fisher Price company. These were very crude, with solid bodies and minimal markings to distinguish hair and faces, but … Continue reading →

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