Oenan Telíth Ahar – The Strength of the Whole In Madea and other human-dominant societies, the idea of strength is closely allied to that of mechanical force. Motion, mass, velocity, torsion, friction, and all the energetic capabilities of alchemy. T...

Tell me if you've been in this situation before:    You are writing a plot-heavy scene, and you're aware that you have to slow things down and have a character-heavy scene. Then you know you have to write a plot-scene again, and then after...

What is a Worker’s Co-operative? A worker’s co-operative is a type of company which has a democratic structure. It is run by members, for members. All profits are reinvested to benefit the people that made the profits, not investors and overpaid mana...

Tropes, without context, don’t help our understanding of stories as much as many people think they do. In this essay, I explore the reasoning behind this perspective, and the many flaws it introduces.

Writing with ADHD Episode 2: Interested in literally everything all of the timeor, How do I overcome ADHD to just sit down and write? Episode 1: https://timothyscottcurrey.com/timothy-s-currey-blog/2021/12/9/writing-with-adhd-episode-1-the-shameThe m...

Were the Curtains Really Just Blue?Or, ‘What your English teacher was really trying to say.’Quotes from some authors: “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” Italo Calvino“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due...

WRITING WITH ADHDEPISODE 1: THE SHAMEI was diagnosed with ADHD at age 30. I had always had it, it turns out. It just concealed itself as a lack of self-discipline, a touch of anxiety, a hint of depression, and a dash of social awkwardness. A lot of a...

For many of us, the first nucleus of a story idea is a character that springs to mind as if from nowhere. We might have a mental image all in a flash: how they look, how they talk, what they yearn for, and how they dream. Or we might just have...

(This blog post was originally posted to the /r/Fantasy subreddit as part of a series)Below are some of my thoughts about the prose techniques used by Mervyn Peake in the opening of Titus Groan. The sample, and some preliminary thoughts. Gormenghast,...