Writing: introvert characters, part one

What seemed unlikely a few months ago, the ongoing COVID sitation had shown that introverts don’t have it that bad, and can deal with some situations better. Now that my ocuntry is in hard lockdown, I had a bit of extra time for thinking, and decided to look into some aspects of introverts and how they can be used in writing.

In this post, I’ll look into some of them.

Continue reading

Writing/reality: inspiration from conflict

As much as I avoid getting political, events in our world can be used as an inspiration – or a warning – for crafting fictional plots. This week, it’s 10 years since the events that started what was then called ‘Arab Spring’, though it’s more like yet another Arabian Failure, from the western point of view. Is there something to take away from these events to use in writing fiction?

Continue reading