Matthew Sylvester
writing
Don’t take your instructors for granted
Members of clubs, any clubs, often take what the club provides for granted. This is perfectly understandable because quite often, they are completely removed from the running of the club. This is exactly the same for martial arts instructor. Students turn up, practice – or train – and then go home. The instructor has gone … Continue reading
Projects on the go
Apologies for not getting a proper update onto the blog, but I have been splitting my time between Blaise, Spring Heeled Jack and an article on the privilege of being a martial arts instructor. I promise that they will all be going up in the near future, and that the wait will have been worth … Continue reading
A blog first – Fan Mail
That’s right, I actually got some fan mail as a result of my Spring Heeled Jack story. Normally I go out and hunt people down, forcing them to read my writing, and then going on at them to write something nice. Or die. This time however, a nice chap actually Facebooked me and said that … Continue reading
Character name generation
I was reading an article by the fabulous Nicola Vincent-Abnett on character names and how important it is to establish them at the start of writing. Many people I know struggle trying to think of names for people, animals and places. One book I’m reading ‘The Black Company’ seems to have taken a novel approach … Continue reading
Carpathia – By Matt Forbeck
Matt Forbeck is a genius. Not in the ‘Enstein you’re so amazing’ type of way, nor even ‘Stephen, your concepts about the origin of the universe amaze and astound me type of way. No, Matt Forbeck is the type of genius who can go along to the Kickstarter website and say ‘I want to write. … Continue reading
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