March 6, 2023 Un-Shifting Sands – Alternate Ideas for an Unstable E-book The end is near. I’m adding the finishing steps to my thesis. Soon it will be sent off and largely out of my hands…
January 10, 2022 Goal Setting: Reflecting on 2021 and Planning for 2022 It’s the beginning of a new year and so, once again, I’ve been thinking about goal setting. At the start of 2021, I realised…
November 23, 2021 Fantasy Tropes – The Mentor It’s been a long time since I talked about fantasy tropes! So much of my life revolves around research right now – and my…
September 15, 2021 Worldbuilding Fantasy: Shifting Sands as a Case Study I can’t believe it’s only two days until the next wave of Shifting Sands arrives. If you need to catch-up, make sure to do…
May 3, 2021 The MBTI of Characters: Aamarin I’m realising that a lot of the things I’m interested in are about self-discovery. A big thread through my research is trying to understand…
March 15, 2021 Lessons Learned: About Writing an “Unstable” E-book I can’t believe that it’s almost three months since Shifting Sands was first published! And you know what that means, right? Despite a catastrophic…
February 15, 2021 Writing Magic – Types, Rules, and Consequences This week, I played around with writing outside of my usual fantasy genre. I wrote the first chapter of a romantic comedy for a…
January 11, 2021 Memories and Perspectives: Reflecting from a writer’s POV One of my earliest memories takes place in the living room of the first home I remember. It was sunny. I was playing Barbies with my sister. I’m pretty sure Princess Jasmine’s head had not yet been ripped off in a quest for vengeance. We were both little – I was probably around three years old. Then mum came in with two old people.
September 14, 2020 Fantasy and Familiarity I’ve been thinking a lot about the fantasy genre in the past couple of weeks. I mean, I think about it a lot generally…
August 20, 2020 Introductions (Part Two) – About Shifting Sands So, my first blog post focused on me. Who am I? This one will be much more focused on the creative portion of this…
