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Novels

I’ll get there at some point. I want it to be good, my first novel, not great but okay. Which is why this page will remain empty, for a little while longer…

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Very Short Stories

A thousand words! That is the limit I have set upon myself. I’m gonna be honest, there is a cauldron of different tales to be found here, some are not very good, but at least they are interesting.

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Short Stories

Short Stories are my new challenge, which means 7000 words, roughly. I give myself a month to finish them and so far everything seems well. Lets see how long it lasts… 

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Stay True to Yourself

Have you ever come across the notion that writing in first person is bad? Of course, people can like whatever they want but I suspect they don’t like it because they were told to. Somebody told them that adverbs are bad, that cliches are…

Posted on 7 November, 2019 by Stamphers

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Books are Spellbinding

It doesn’t matter what kind of of book, which genre it is in, books has a way of transfixing the mind, bringing it back to the present which is the greatest gift we have in these times of infinite distraction: Books pierce into the…

Posted on 5 November, 2019 by Stamphers

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Why does LotR still hold up today?

I still hold that Lord of the rings is the greatest fantasy story ever written, at least among those that I have read, and I often wonder why? Why does Tolkien’s story still hold up? It’s far from perfect and you know what will…

Posted on 4 October, 2019 by Stamphers

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