Tea and Chat 2018
This week sees the return of our weekly informal gathering of writers – Writers’ Tea and Chat. The event will[…]
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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.
This is the year your writing gets better
Your writing will only ever be as good as you let it become. This year (2018) your writing gets better.[…]
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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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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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