Elements of Style is the online version of the classic grammar book by Willian Strunk Jr. You’d think the contents would be out of date, but they are not. If you need help with grammar, this is a good place to start.
Please remember that each publishing house and country may have a different [...]

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I’ve decided to change the name of my fantasy world.
Firstly, because there is an online fantasy game using the current name and even though I can prove I’ve been using the name for at least 8 years, I don’t want to bother with any legal hassles later on should this story find a [...]

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Yesterday I discovered that there’s an online fantasy game which uses the same name as my fantasy world. The fact that the fantasy game’s name describes the land is even more disturbing, because should my novel be published I wouldn’t want anyone to think I stole the name even though I’ve been using it [...]

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I saw this movie the other night and, unfortunately, I was disappointed with it. Usually I love these types of movie. They are fun to watch but there was something lacking from this one.
I admit that the play on words was amusing but I felt the plot was weak. Maybe I just [...]

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Last year I attended a writing course and made heaps of notes on how to write a novel from the beginning. Several months later, I started a part-by-part series based on what I had learned and what I already know.
Follow the link below to start the mini-course. You’ll learn about ideas and where [...]

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Book 3 of my trilogy will deal with the bubonic plague. Although I know a lot about this disease because I’ve already researched it through my love of Medieval times, there are certain facts that I need to know for my book. A friend’s husband, who is a pharmacist, has graciously offered to [...]

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Today I completed the first draft of my 2005 anthology story. Even though I call it a first draft, it’s a good, clean copy which I feel pleased with. I have to admit that I wrote the entire story during work hours but each and every scene has been thought through a [...]

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I need to find a suitable infectious disease for book 3 of my trilogy but I need to know what the disease will be in book 1 because there’s a scene that will link the two books together.
Take a look at the list of diseases. It’s staggering!

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I’ve always called myself a fantasy writer - hence the name of my domain “fantasyscribe” (Scribe being my online name) but I’ve been seeing the term “speculative fiction” everywhere over the last week or two and wonder if that is a better description of what I write.
However, what exactly is speculative fiction? Is it [...]

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The Ancient Egyptian infuence on the occult is reinforced by many tales of the “mummy’s curse” which continue to capture public imagination. The earliest record of a ghost story involving a mummy was written in France in 1699. The mummy, together with Dracula and Frankenstein, prove the the theme has remained ever-popular for [...]

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