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Matthew is a writer, web dev, and geek from Kent (UK). He is the founder and current chair of Thanet Creative as well as head geek for Author Buzz. His ambitions include seeing a film or TV series based on something he wrote. Matt is also responsible for fixing stuff on AuthorBuzz.co.uk when it breaks.
Today, every newspaper delivered to each house that morning carried a different headline and story that in some way related to the people to whom the paper was…
Just recently, you have started to suspect that your life is nothing but a computer simulation. More importantly, you may have accidentally stumbled upon a series of cheat…
Have one or more of your characters go off the deep end with a huge rant about something mundane, like the correct way to make tea. Milk in…
How do you make sure that you have enough time to write 50,000 words in November? This video asks the NaNoWriMo staff to share their top tips.
In what experts are calling “Sudden Sleep Syndrome”, people around the world seem to randomly drop into a deep sleep lasting from five minutes to several hours. Surprisingly,…
Six years ago, a kitten decided to move into your home. From that day on, your luck had always been amazing. Today, the cat has gone missing. Now…
One morning you receive an email which seems to have no sender. All it said was “call in sick today“. On a whim, you did just that. This…
For the whole of NaNoWriMo, we will post daily writing dares. You do not have to use them on the day they come out. Nor at all. But,…
NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow which means that all that creative prompting energy might be going elsewhere for a whole month. Don’t worry, I’ve been scheduling these prompts weeks in…
Each morning, a red squirrel comes to your garden and leaves something small behind. A screw, a rubber band, and a clear glass marble (to name but three…
On your eleventh birthday, you accidentally discovered that one of your ancestors was an actual dragon. Your family’s secrets get stranger. A lot stranger.
The dragons, once a protected species, are becoming a problem. The lawmakers seem uninterested in allowing a cull, so you, the Knight Protector, must come up with a…
You lived your whole life inside the tiny life dome only venchering out via telepresence robots. Then, one day, you find a picture book that talks about a…
You gather around the fire on the last day of your camping holiday. As the storytelling starts, you realise that you do not know the names of anyone…
There is an old man in your town who claims to be an immortal. You never took him seriously until you find a photograph from 1917 which seems…