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The Tools of A Writer – Writing On The Go With JotterPad

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 13, 2017

For those of us that write, finding the time to jot down ideas throughout the day is as important as writing a story. These little nuggets collected from random thoughts often become the seeds of our next great story. The methods we use to record these little nuggets naturally vary from writer to writer, depending […]

Featured Reading Review

Gryphon Gray – A Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 10, 2017March 9, 2017

In the homeland of the elves, Mythwyll, located in the western part of Ontyre, all is not well. Where for generations the elves made their home, death at the hands of humans has ravaged the lands and surviving elves are on the run. It is in this grim situation that we find ourselves following the […]

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Exploring the Tools of a Writer – An Introduction

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 4, 2017March 4, 2017

Throughout the centuries, mankind has taken it upon themselves to record events of their particular era for posterity using whatever means were available to them at the time. From the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians to the runes of the Vikings and writings of the medieval era and the Renaissance, writing has been a part […]

Writing

February Writing Scorecard

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 2, 2017March 2, 2017

About six months ago, I looked back on a year of participation in the Monthly Writing Challenge on Twitter and what that had meant for my writing output. The results were pretty good, I thought. I wrote more in that one year than I ever had in a year before. I didn’t stop there though. […]

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Humphrey – A Short Story

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on February 1, 2017January 31, 2017

[su_note radius=”7″]Originally posted on Wattpad for a SciFi Challenge. The challenge was to write a story about a mad scientist and include three of a handful of sentences determined by the challenge panel. These have been marked with bold text in the story below. The story is really built around these statements.[/su_note] The Dome. That’s […]

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Shadow of the Beast – Flash Fiction

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on January 7, 2017January 6, 2017

[su_note radius=”7″]Originally posted in the Flash Fiction Phenomenon reading/writing group on Facebook.[/su_note] The hunter looked down from the top of the clock tower onto the village below. Lit only by the pale light of the full moon above him, shadows reached across the streets and alleys like fingers of the undead. Small fires throughout the village […]

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Manuskript – The Open Source Writing Tool for Writers

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on December 30, 2016

As I do my best to come up with fiction that is interesting to read, the bit about transferring what’s in my mind to a sentence, a paragraph, a page, a chapter and then finally a book, well, that part is also very important. After all, without writing, there wouldn’t be that much around to […]

Movies & TV Review

Arrival – The Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on November 23, 2016

As I’m sitting here thinking about how to write a review of Arrival, the movie adaptation of “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, I’m having trouble figuring out where to start. While many are clamoring for the next installment of the saga that takes place in a “galaxy far, far away”, I’ve been wanting to see […]

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Exploring The World Of Microfiction With TaleHunt

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on November 6, 2016

The society we live in is a fascinating beast. Everything evolves, everything changes, from the work we do to what we do to entertain ourselves. Take books and fiction, for example. When I was growing up, before the age of the Internet (gasp, there was such a time?) when stories were read in books and […]

Reading Review

Horizon – A Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on October 29, 2016

Not long ago, the news headlines trumpeted that the world has passed the point of no return when it comes to CO2 in our atmosphere. Global warming’s got our planet in an iron grip and we’re too stupid to realize it and try to do something about it. Something like it. Regardless of one’s opinions […]