Overcoming Audiobook Criticism: Debunking Myths
To this day, I’m still baffled when someone mutters that “listening to an audiobook” is not reading. Do a little search on Google or your favourite social platform and the debate will come up. I started listening to audiobooks a few years ago, maybe it was during the pandemic, I can’t really remember, as a…
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Writing Fantasy or The Art of Building Your Own World
Last year, I was selected to enrol in the Writing Fantasy course at Curtis Brown Creative after submitting the opening of a new novel filled with fantasy and Mesoamerican magical realism. For the purpose of this post, we’ll call it SLM. My course tutor was Lucy Holland, pen name of Lucy Hounsom, author of Sistersong…
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When is a writer happy?
Writing is an accumulation of effort, not a deadline reached. Just when you think you’re hitting a milestone, you encounter a new one. The job is never done. It’s constantly evolving. So the question is: when is a writer happy? A writer is happy along the way. And suffering along the way. It lives in…
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David Cuen 