Fun & Hypothetical

How I levelled up my writing by playing Dungeons and Dragons

Liz Hudson

Apr 2, 202311 min read

Writing Advice & Craft

How I levelled up my writing by playing Dungeons and Dragons

A Bard, a Cleric and a Wizard walk into a publishing house... How Dungeons and Dragons has influenced my writing.

Liz Hudson

Apr 2, 20234 min read

Poetry

The Ballad of the Delian Tomb

Writing in-character narrative performance poetry for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Nope, I'm definitely not a poet!

Liz Hudson

Dec 16, 20215 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

Ten perfect Christmas gifts for writers

So your Significant Other likes to write? And you think that might be a rich seam to mine for Christmas gift ideas? Well, you'd be...

Writing Christmas: The tropes we love and love to hate

Stacy Curry

Dec 15, 20213 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

Writing Christmas: The tropes we love and love to hate

We all love a little bit of a festive theme, right? Whether that’s in the form of film, television, books or something else, everyone has...

What fictional pet would you like to adopt and why?

Writing Voices

Oct 28, 20214 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

What fictional pet would you like to adopt and why?

Has your brain gone straight to dragons and griffins? Well, you might be surprised by what the Scribble chose to bring home from the pound.

If you wrote a self-help book for writers, what would you call it and why?

Writing Voices

Oct 21, 20213 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

If you wrote a self-help book for writers, what would you call it and why?

We may have had a tad too much fun on this one. This week the scribble were tasked to come up with the ultimate self-help book for writers.

What are the best and worst literary adaptations to television or film?

Writing Voices

Aug 26, 20219 min read

Books & Literature

What are the best and worst literary adaptations to television or film?

One thing guaranteed to send a bookworm into either spasms of delight or furious apoplexy is a literary adaptation done well, or done badly.

What's your dream literary dinner party? Attendees, foods and location.

Writing Voices

Aug 19, 20216 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

What's your dream literary dinner party? Attendees, foods and location.

You are the literary dinner party host extraordinaire... You can invite anyone you like from literature, living or dead, fictional or real.

Would you rather be a critically-acclaimed one hit wonder or well published yet relatively unknown?

Writing Voices

Aug 12, 20214 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

Would you rather be a critically-acclaimed one hit wonder or well published yet relatively unknown?

We're all guilty of mentally jumping the gun a bit and imaging what life will be like when we can finally quit our day jobs - when the...

What literary character would you most like to tell off, and why?

Writing Voices

Jul 22, 20218 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

What literary character would you most like to tell off, and why?

If you’ve ever caught yourself screeching at a book, perhaps holding it at arms length and reading with one eye in utter frustration...

You're restricted to a genre, form and medium for life. What do you go for?

Writing Voices

Jun 24, 20217 min read

Fun & Hypothetical

You're restricted to a genre, form and medium for life. What do you go for?

You wake up one morning and there is an email waiting for you, telling you that today you must choose one genre, form and medium for life...

Writing Voices

Apr 22, 20215 min read

Publishing

Physical book or ebook?

If we twisted your arm; if it was a matter of life and death; if you had to pick one or the other... what would you choose?

If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

Writing Voices

Apr 1, 20214 min read

Writing Advice & Craft

If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

Whether you discovered your passion for the written word a little bit later in life or you were a child-dreamer, scribbling stories on...

Writing Voices

Mar 4, 20215 min read

Writing Life

What makes you a writer?

'Am I a writer yet?' We've probably all had that thought at least once. 'Writer' is a bit of a hazy concept...

Writing Voices

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