“Ultimate Guide: 9 Fiction Genres You Should Know About”
.. What is genre? We often describe books as belonging to different genres: this makes them easy to categorise and market. Yet this tendency limits our understanding of the stories […]
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Translator, Traitor
This article was first published here, as the final piece in my column for Capital Letters (ACT Writers Centre). To translate written work, especially colourful prose or poetry, is an […]
Horses Are Not Machines: On Writing the Steeds of Fantasy Fiction
A piece I wrote last year for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The fact that I’m Australian didn’t seem to bother them, so we’ll just go with it. […]
Embodying Character: Physical Symbolism or Lazy Stereotypes?
Originally written for Capital Letters (ACT Writers Centre), and accessible on their website here. Both as readers of fiction and in the real world, we have been conditioned to […]
The Byronic Hero’s Path: A Tortu(r)ous Road
Having come across one too many Byronic heroes loitering on hillsides, I decided to dissect a few in order to get to know them better. For the record, the use […]
