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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.
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Only you know that the alien invasion has already begun. What do you do now?
When you went to bed you were a well-paid fashion model. When you woke up you are shocked to discover you are some bloke who lays bricks for…
You have a weird secret. Every time that you eat ice cream your face, body, hair, and identity changes entirely. The only consents are your eyes – your…
After the accident, you noticed that you could sometimes see a few seconds into the future.
Alex is twelve and he’s pretty sure the babysitter is an underworld assassin. Alex has one question: Should he tell the babysitter about the bully?
You wake up one morning and realize that you have lost all memories of the past year. You try to piece together what happened, but everything feels strange…
A mysterious illness is spreading through London’s supernatural community, and Blaze is hired to find out what’s causing it. As he investigates, he discovers that the illness is…
Blaze is hired by a group of ghosts who are haunted by an even more malevolent spirit. As Blaze tries to track down the spirit, he discovers that…
Colin Blaze is hired by a group of mermaids to investigate a string of missing pearls from their underwater kingdom. However, when Blaze tries to dive down to…
I fed ChatGPT the background notes on Colin Blaze and asked it to write a Colin Blaze story. This is the resultant story. It bounces around from good…
In a few hours, you will be gone and another you will appear. For you, “new year new you” is literally true. At the turn of midnight, you…
He enlisted in 1944. His rise through the ranks to Captain he put down to luck. Now, in 2023, collecting his pension while looking the same as he…
Hey, Bloodscream, we’ve got some teens with a classical Latin summoning. You took Latin, right? Can you take this one? I’d ask Skullsmite but he’s off on a…
Your character is drinking some coffee. Maybe it was the caffeine but they suddenly have a moment of insight. The penny has dropped and they can do something…
Without any warning switch genre. Bonus points if you do it again in the same chapter or the next one the whole story is cast in a whole…
Add a wizard to your story who tries to help and only makes things orders of magnitude worse in every respect.
The chapter that you are working on is suddenly filled with puppies. Lots of puppies. And with the puppies comes puppy-related chaos. Extra points… if this was a…
Introduce poo as a theme and/or plot point in your chapter. Perhaps someone trod in it. Maybe someone failed to flush the loo. Or, perhaps, a baby needs…
We dare you to sit somewhere public and include conversations you overhear into your story.
Have a character suggest a shady action that would (if it works) help the characters overcome the antagonist. Have them debate the relative morality of doing evil for…