I’d like to explore an idea with you – the idea of a minimum viable story. We often overcomplicate stories and run the risk of never finishing the story. What is Minimum Viable Story? In business one of the things … Continue reading Minimum Viable Story
How would you go about surviving the apocalypse? End of the world scenarios are a popular one for writers to explore. In the Thanet Creative: Writers (facebook group), we’ve been looking at the topic of how to go about surviving the apocalypse. It … Continue reading Questions: Surviving the apocalypse
Today, Thanet Creative held a virtual meet-up as a test for running critique and training sessions online. This is an after action report of our first virtual meet-up on jitsi.org. How the virtual meet-up went We used a platform called Jitsi which we chose … Continue reading Thanet Creative’s first virtual meet-up
Last year, Thanet Creative held a summer barbeque and invited all the other writing local writing groups to come and join us. This year, we’re doing it again. The Thanet Creative summer barbeque is open to all members, anyone who has … Continue reading Thanet Creative: Summer Barbeque
Thanet, and particularly Ramsgate, owes some of its heritage to the local Jewish community. Most prominent of these influences is Sir Moses Montefiore who is the namesake of parts of Ramsgate. Sir Moses Montefiore has his links to literature too, being mentioned in Charles Dickens’ … Continue reading Writers Explore: Writing a Jewish character
We describe something as Kafkaesque when it is characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka’s fictional world. Very briefly we are going to dip into this nightmare. Who was Franz Kafka? Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish … Continue reading A brief look at Kafka