August 2018 - Thanet Creative

Minimum Viable Story

28th August 2018 Matthew Brown Storytelling

I’d like to explore an idea with you – the idea of a minimum viable story. We often overcomplicate stories[…]

Questions: Surviving the apocalypse

16th August 2018 Matthew Brown Over to you

How would you go about surviving the apocalypse? End of the world scenarios are a popular one for writers to explore. In[…]

Thanet Creative’s first virtual meet-up

15th August 2018 Matthew Brown Events

Today, Thanet Creative held a virtual meet-up as a test for running critique and training sessions online. This is an after[…]

Writers Explore: Writing a Jewish character

5th August 2018 Matthew Brown Characters, Writers Explore

Thanet, and particularly Ramsgate, owes some of its heritage to the local Jewish community. Most prominent of these influences is Sir Moses[…]

A brief look at Kafka

4th August 2018 Matthew Brown Resources

We describe something as Kafkaesque when it is characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka’s fictional world.[…]