The culture clash allows us (Author God) to create tension that feels organic and keeps audiences dying to know what happens...next.| Kristen Lamb
The Johari Window can be one of many powerful tools for crafting dimensional characters and layered stories that feel incredibly REAL.| Kristen Lamb
Following the Endland publication by And Other Stories last year I’m happy to make these spoken word plus music versions of a few of the stories available for free. They were produced in collaboration with a group of amazing musicians who’ve created soundscape musical material to accompany the readings. The complete Endland is also available as […]| Tim Etchells
Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown is a collection of stories, flash fiction, poems, autofiction and conceptual writing gathered during the April and May Covid-19 lockdown, bringing together UK-based writers, poets, performance makers and artists. Published in a PDF format by Unstable Object, an imprint launched by Etchells and Horvat for this occasion, the book is […]| Tim Etchells
Video trailer for my new short fiction collection Endland – shot and edited by the always amazing Hugo Glendinning, words and music by me. Text is the preface for the book. More info about the book here, buy from Forced Entertainment here.| Tim Etchells
Recently I was watching an interview of a successful television actor who knew from childhood that he wanted to spend his life performing for audiences. Another individual remarked during the conve…| Chronicles of the Scribe
From time to time, people ask me for information on how to outline a plot. “How,” they ask, “do you know what should come first? Then what do you do?” The answer can be hard…| Chronicles of the Scribe
As promised in my previous post, here’s the Amazon link to my latest novel, A MAN OF HONOR. I’m using the pseudonym of Lewis Kern for my westerns in homage to my grandfather and father,…| Chronicles of the Scribe
I cannot tell you what a relief it is to announce that my latest novel, A MAN OF HONOR, is now in processing at Amazon for imminent Kindle release. I started this western nearly two years ago, and …| Chronicles of the Scribe
Research is necessary for any successful setting although it can also be a quagmire from which the unwary writer may never emerge. While it’s tempting to use only invented settings or to conf…| Chronicles of the Scribe
Bland settings occur when writers do the following: -write in generalities -avoid specific details -supply only vague information -forget to use a viewpoint character’s physical senses. Vivid…| Chronicles of the Scribe
For this one, let’s take a page–pun intended, ha ha–from Edgar Allen Poe. In his fiction, he demonstrated the effectiveness of imagery, atmosphere, and even the weather on a story…| Chronicles of the Scribe
The locale of a story should affect character design in how that character interacts with the setting or how this individual has been shaped by the place. Setting isn’t separate from your oth…| Chronicles of the Scribe
If you’re thinking you can plunk your action scene in any old gritty dark alley in Generic City, USA, then you’re shortchanging the dramatic potential of your story. For one thing, ther…| Chronicles of the Scribe