What do you write? Don’t skirt around the issue. Horror? Romance? Fantasy? What do you write? Do you write tales of Daring doo? Where the good Defeats the bad? Do you write Of orks and elves and dwarves? What do you write? Do you create courtly romances Or a boundless journey to the east? Do… Continue reading Poem: Tell Me What You Write!
Author: theliteraryonion
Trained as a chef, and with an English and Creative Writing Degree, there are no two things I am more passionate about than words and food (apart from maybe my dogs and family).
Follow along as I blend both together with as much skill as I have been taught and as much creativity as I can muster. Love to read? Try my serial stories, short stories and poetry. Love to cook? Have fun with my recipes and lessons. And if you love both? Read everything, and I hope you enjoy as much as I do.
Why You Should Write FanFiction
Do you know which FanFiction line is for what show/book? Fanfiction. You may have heard of it, you may have even partaken in it, or (just as likely) you have no idea what it is. Fanfiction is exactly as it sounds—it’s you as a fan of something, writing a fiction about it. You can write… Continue reading Why You Should Write FanFiction
Plotters and Pantsers
Recently, over on the Social Media sphere, I’ve seen a lot of people questioning if other writers are ‘plotters’ or ‘pantsers’: a plotter being someone who heavily plans their stories and a pantser being the complete opposite, somebody who can just sit down and write without any idea where it’s going to go. Now, what… Continue reading Plotters and Pantsers
Re-Reading Your Old Favourites
We’ve been out of lockdown a certain amount of time. We’re constantly watching the news, constantly thinking about how to react to it and constantly worrying about what’s going to happen next. This is we as a country, we as a people, we as the world. Each day we, humankind, get flooded with information. We… Continue reading Re-Reading Your Old Favourites
The Literary Onion 