Adventure Workshop
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Genre 101 Series – Introduction
Established writers often find it hard to change their genre or even to do something different from the universe that brought them popularity. There is the famous love-hate relationship of authors like Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with their protagonists. Karl May will always be Winnetou‘s dad and J. K. Rowling will always be known for the Harry Potter series no matter how many unrelated novels she may produce. Stephen King will likely never write anything that will make you feel safe at night, even if he wanted to. Alea iacta est. Of course there are others who manage several genres for different reasons. Oscar Wilde never wrote…
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Adventure Workshop
The Adventure Workshop is the collection of my essays and ideas about the topic of and the issues with Creative Writing. Since I’ve been working on MIRATHATON mostly, I have been adding to this section irregularly but you might find something interesting here after all, if you are an avid reader or an aspiring writer. There are certain topics and views that I attach a lot of importance to: Character development and cast analysis, logic and structure as well as the importance of research, regular practice and the understanding of concepts and definitions. I am an advocate of the notion that writing is a craft and that becoming a decent…