You can’t own an idea
Why is it that we writers are so prone to the thinking that we own an idea? For some reason[…]
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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.
The five types of antagonist
In a story, there are five types of antagonist. Only one of those is what you would consider a “bad[…]
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Pitch us your ideas
Thanet Creative is run by our community. The same can be said of this blog. We accept submissions for one-off[…]
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The Business of Writing
This post is about the business of writing because writing is a business. I’m going to do my best to[…]
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Brandon Sanderson’s rules of magic
Do magic systems in fiction need rules? I don’t know. But I do know that Brandon Sanderson, an author that has[…]
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Writing a sense of place according to the Internet
I have to confess that I struggle with creating a vivid sense of place sometimes. Usually when the setting is[…]
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Writers Explore: Disposing of a dead body
In honour of NaNoWriMo, let’s take a look at one of those topics that writers tend to Google far too[…]
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NaNoWriMo meet up – Margate
Thanet Creative was planning to organise a NaNoWriMo meet up but then I noticed that there was already one taking[…]
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Technobabble: Good or bad?
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.
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NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, are you ready?
NaNoWriMo, the month of novel writing, starts tomorrow. Are you ready? Me? Not at all. I have the barest of[…]
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Writers of Thanet
There are many writers who could be said to be writers of Thanet insofar as these writers came from or[…]
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Do you NaNoWriMo?
Who else has heard of NaNoWriMo? If you have yet to encounter it, this is your introduction to something that will[…]
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