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Exploring Visual Flash Fiction with Commaful

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 4, 2017

A few months ago, I wrote a post about writing micro fiction through an app called Talehunt.com. Since then, I’ve also experimented with Tap by Wattpad, an app that lets you write stories in a chat format. A few weeks ago, I accidentally ran into Commaful, yet another entry in the alternative fiction scene. While […]

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Written Treasures – March Edition

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 2, 2017April 3, 2017

The monthly Writing Challenge on Twitter is a great community for writers. It’s a place where those of us that write can encouraging one another to keep at it, to keep those words coming, to finish that story. What we sometimes may lose sight of are all the great stories that actually come out of […]

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Introducing the Camp NaNoWriMo Writing Log [Free Download]

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 29, 2017May 21, 2017

Camp NaNoWriMo is once again approaching. Writers throughout the world are gearing up for a month of intense writing. Outlines have been drafted, background material researched and characters crafted. There are just hours left until the frenzy begins. The goal: write a novel in a month. For those that have participated in Camp NaNoWriMo or […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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Why I’m Not Participating In NaNoWriMo

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on October 21, 2016October 21, 2016

So there, I’ve said it. I’m not participating in the National Novel Writing Month this year. I just won’t. Ok, maybe it’s really not that dramatic. Here’s the scoop: in early September, I was seriously planning on participating. I had a story all lined up. In fact, it was the story I had originally planned […]

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One Year of Writing Challenges – Now What?

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 12, 2016September 11, 2016

In September, 2015, I discovered the monthly writing challenge on Twitter. The goal seemed simple: write 500 words per day or edit for one hour per day. Since I had just started getting back into writing fiction again after a long hiatus, it seemed like a good way to keep me going. Now, a year […]