What in the Weird?: A deep dive into weird fiction
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky So, by now, if you’ve been following this blog for a bit, you would have realised thatContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky So, by now, if you’ve been following this blog for a bit, you would have realised thatContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Humans are strange creatures – in a world where we can choose from an abundance of comfortContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky I was recently lucky enough to score an Advance Reader Copy of Tim McGregor’s upcoming release, ‘Lure’.Continue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky One of the most interesting characteristics of Gothic fiction has to be its veneration of the sublime.Continue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky In my last post, I shared the results from putting Tasmanian Gothic through Chris Angelis’ Gothic Meter.Continue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Keeping with the deep-dive into all things gothic in the lead up to Tasmanian Gothic‘s release (AugContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky As you might have realised, I fell down a wondrous rabbit hole of gothic and weird scholarshipContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky When I was first drafting my latest release, I knew I wanted to call it Tasmanian Gothic.Continue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Everyone loves a good sporting idiom, metaphor, or analogy – “A game of two halves”, “throwing aContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky In some ways, the fourth and final act in a novel (somewhat confusingly titled Act 3 (sinceContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky As my portfolio starts to expand (the complete Divided Elements series is published next year, and myContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky I started writing short stories eighteen months ago. Seduced by the competitions and submission opportunities, I thought itContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky I’m in the second act doldrums of my current WIP (but not for long, because the break intoContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky It seems that every time I reach the middle of a WIP, I start musing on the problemsContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Recently I wrote a post about character needing conflict, not goals. I received a great question fromContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Over here, in my part of the world, it is winter. Which means flu season. Which, when youContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Everyone has seen them – the pithy pieces of writing advice that can fit on a 940×780 pixelContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Recently I reached the midpoint in the first draft of Divided Elements (Book 2). As anyone who has read myContinue Reading
By Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Lately I’ve read a few stories that had something not quite right about them. At first it was difficult toContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Recently, I was feeling all kinds of nostalgic about nearing the finish line for Divided Elements | Resistance, and decided itContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky When I first started writing seriously, I was surprised at how I suddenly started to second-guess myself aboutContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky One of the recurring plot devices in dystopian literature is the ‘Divided Population’. This is to be expected,Continue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky There is a well-worn narrative principle that often does the rounds in writer’s circles. You would have seenContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky I recently had a moment of enlightenment regarding this whole writing a book thing. The start of a storyContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Starting a novel is no easy task. The problem with beginnings is that they are all about set-up, and set-upContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky I think about story structure. A lot. I’ve read countless books and studied hundreds of movies to gainContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Over the last couple of weeks I have been looking at story structure – from the global levelContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Earlier this week I began discussing story structure – looking at the macro structure of entire novels and theirContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky If there is one thing you should learn before embarking on writing your first novel, it is storyContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Selecting the right Point of View (POV) for your book can be tricky. If you are anythingContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Books are a lot of things, but mostly they are stories about stuff that happens. They are notContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky What makes an effective protagonist? There are a lot of theories out there that list a number ofContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Now that I’ve past the midpoint of my WIP, Divided Elements, and am on my way towards the secondContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky It is a common misconception amongst writers that the structuring process is an activity undertaken only atContinue Reading
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky As with all things chased with dogged persistence, the middle of my first book, Divided Elements, is growingContinue Reading