Words by Jamie Conway The world isn’t just your playground – it’s your source of inspiration! Perhaps you’ve been sitting with a bland manuscript, that’s drowning in over-used tropes, and environments and characters that aren’t all that different from those written before them. Maybe your editor is all up in your grill about being “unique” …
Words by Jamie Conway Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Orwell, and Lewis Carrol! Any of these names ring a bell? Of course they do! Maybe you had to read their words in high school under the watchful eye of a passionate English teacher. Or maybe you’re a literature enthusiast naturally and you’ve consumed the classics …
Words by Jamie Conway You’ve read the novels. You’ve watched the movies that accurately depict the events of the novel. But have you watched the super weird and hilarious movie adaptations of the classics that kind of make no sense sometimes? We just adore them! They make us laugh at their stupidity, their deadpan jokes …
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Words by Jamie Conway You’ve probably fallen in love with a number of dystopian novels and movies without realising it. By definition, it’s quite the opposite of utopian fiction, wherein the characters live pretty perfect lives in ideal towns with happy families. Dystopian literature is when the characters face the worst situations and suffer distressing …
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Words by Jamie Conway We don’t have to mention his full name – you know who we’re talking about. Some writers are just that famous and they’re famous for very good reasons; people know their work well, they’re taught it in school and the words have made their mark. They’ve touched souls across continents, they …
Words by Jamie Conway They never really get old, do they? It doesn’t matter how many times we see them in movies and books, who plays the characters or where the story is set – a popular trope is popular for a reason. We don’t care if it’s been done a million times – the …
Words by Ilonka Louw “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of Magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” – Albus Dumbledore – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows The thing about words is… they’re filled with echoes of the ancients. They’ve the power of prophecies running in their dangly …
Words by Jamie Conway Ah, English – one of the most widely spoken languages on earth but just how pure is the English language? Turns out many quirky, cool, colloquial and sophisticated English words have been begged, borrowed and even stolen from the tribes before us. Suffice to say, English would be lacking something important, …
Words by Ilonka Louw As children, we read with abandon, devouring books like they were made of sweets instead of dry paper and ink. We lived in their worlds of imagination, friendship, adventure, and rhyme. And our days were filled with just as much magic! Then, we had to grow up – because Peter Pan …
Words by Jamie Conway The question isn’t how to write a famous page-turner that will be remembered for decades – it’s where to write it! We spent some time digging in the good old literature archives to find some of our favourite classical authors’ secret writing spots. Was it the city skyline from the hotel …
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