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Growing in Power

On Writing: Magic Systems and Handling Power Escalation [ Mistborn l Last Airbender l Naruto ] I won’t spoil this video but I want to compare this with a series of books that I love, and another that is written by the same author. These are the Black Magician Trilogy and the Age of Five,Continue reading “Growing in Power”

Lets Review: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Hobbit – It is the bar against which almost all other children’s fantasy is judged, and much adult fantasy fiction too. Published in September 1937, it has endured as the most influential novel in the genre coupled with the Lord of the Rings trilogy which came out seventeen years later. What better book isContinue reading “Lets Review: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.”

Fran

This short piece came from doing the Open University Creative Writing course (for free). I did this just under a year ago and I’m still happy with it – so onto the Blog it goes. Any tips for me? Let me know! If you want to try the course for yourself, go to Start WritingContinue reading “Fran”

Counting Down the Thunder

I wrote this on the 6th February 2019 at the Wear Valley Writers Workshop in Bishop Auckland, County Durham England. The prompt was a set of odd words of which I chose ‘Bobowler’ which I discovered meant moth. Having not used the word before, I set out a story where one suddenly appears. Enjoy, ErraticContinue reading “Counting Down the Thunder”

By The Sword

What follows is one of my early pieces of writing. Originally, the text was a confused mess of past and present tenses, and of clauses that didn’t quite make sense. It was published back when Elfwood.com was still ‘the place’ to be and won a moderator award. I’ve dusted it down and polished it aContinue reading “By The Sword”

Sending forth tendrils into the great void…

The slithering arm caused the light around it to ripple as, like a rope of silk and slime, it bent time and space itself and embedded the rounded tip into the girl’s ear. A agonised scream filled the air. But there was no-one there to hear her brain as it was infected with an erraticContinue reading “Sending forth tendrils into the great void…”