November 2017 - Thanet Creative

Brandon Sanderson’s rules of magic

30th November 2017 Matthew Brown World Building

Do magic systems in fiction need rules? I don’t know. But I do know that Brandon Sanderson, an author that has[…]

Writing a sense of place according to the Internet

9th November 2017 Matthew Brown World Building

I have to confess that I struggle with creating a vivid sense of place sometimes. Usually when the setting is[…]

Writers Explore: Disposing of a dead body

7th November 2017 Matthew Brown Writers Explore

In honour of NaNoWriMo, let’s take a look at one of those topics that writers tend to Google far too[…]

Technobabble: Good or bad?

3rd November 2017 Matthew Brown Over to you

Now we are in the window of crazy writing called NaNoWriMo, I thought I would take a quick look at a topic I have been abusing for comic effect – technobabble.