Minimum Viable Story
I’d like to explore an idea with you – the idea of a minimum viable story. We often overcomplicate stories[…]
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Author: Matthew Brown
Matthew is a writer, web dev, and geek from Kent (UK). He is the founder and current chair of Thanet Creative as well as head geek for Author Buzz. His ambitions include seeing a film or TV series based on something he wrote. Matt is also responsible for fixing stuff on AuthorBuzz.co.uk when it breaks.
Questions: Surviving the apocalypse
How would you go about surviving the apocalypse? End of the world scenarios are a popular one for writers to explore. In[…]
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Thanet Creative’s first virtual meet-up
Today, Thanet Creative held a virtual meet-up as a test for running critique and training sessions online. This is an after[…]
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Thanet Creative: Summer Barbeque
Last year, Thanet Creative held a summer barbeque and invited all the other writing local writing groups to come and join[…]
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Writers Explore: Writing a Jewish character
Thanet, and particularly Ramsgate, owes some of its heritage to the local Jewish community. Most prominent of these influences is Sir Moses[…]
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A brief look at Kafka
We describe something as Kafkaesque when it is characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka’s fictional world.[…]
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Advice for sourcing stock images
Both here and on Author Buzz, one topic I have kept clear of is stock images. Largely because I know next[…]
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Commit to making mistakes
The best way to succeed at anything – but especially writing – is to try things and make mistakes. However, not[…]
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A different vision of the future of local libraries
Let’s be honest, a lot of local libraries are little more than a money sink for many local authorities. What[…]
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Expand and integrate your author platform
If your author platform is spread out across many social media platforms, how can you stop it eating up all[…]
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Failure is not fatal
One thing that we messy writers need to learn is this – failure is not fatal. The key thing, as[…]
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How professional writers embrace necessary mess
The very best writers are those that have learned to love “necessary mess” as part of their writing process. First[…]
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