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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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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 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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Why we need to write fewer white male protagonists
If you are looking for an audience for your stories you could do a lot better than targeting white able-bodied[…]
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September’s Winner and Sunday’s challenge.
The Winner of the September story challenge is Jess Joy. I thought I would get that out there right from[…]
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