On Fantasy and Writing

My articles on topics relating to writing fantasy can be found on my author page on Mythic Scribes. Current articles are:

• Magical Creatures for Magical Worlds:
  • Fairies
  • The Minotaur
  • The Phoenix
  • The Hydra
• A New Page for a New Year
• The Forests of Fantasyland
• Adding Depth to a Fantasy World
• Fantasy Weapons: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• How to Spot Your Writing Weaknesses
• Fight for What’s Right: Moral Causes in Fantasy Worlds
• Using History as Inspiration for Fantasy
• Howl’s Moving Castle: a review of its adaptations
• Suspense and Pacing in Fiction.

I have also written guest blogs for the following:

• Lessons from Handwriting a Final Draft, on brianwfoster.com

Ancient History topics

My articles on ancient history topics can be found on Perpetual Past; articles available there are:

• The ancient (interrupted) custom of urban beekeeping
• Curse tablets, judicial prayers, and divine justice in the ancient world
• Corinth and early classical archaeology
• Writing is Magic: Classical Greek Attitudes to Literacy

Academic Publications

I am a named author for one article published in a peer-reviewed journal:

• University of Leicester Graveyards Group. 2012. ‘Frail memories: is the commemorated population representative of the buried population?’ Post-Medieval Archaeology 46:1, 166–195