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Welcome to my blog! Whenever I have thoughts or updates to share about writing, they appear here. (It also contains everything from my old Dutch blog, Niet Dat Het Uitmaakt, if you go back far enough.)

Writing Tip: Have characters agree on what's important

April 28, 2024 English 2 minute(s)

One of the recurring issues when writing is the never-ending question about the quality of conflict. What is good conflict? What is juicy conflict that sets the story on fire and keeps momentum until the end—and how do you identify conflict that’s boring and peters out quickly?

Miscellaneous

Writing Tip: Plot Expansion

April 15, 2024 English 6 minute(s)

Many writers, at some point, learn about story structure. The idea that stories are most effective if they follow some common rules, such as delivering on what you promise to the readers.

Miscellaneous

Writing Tip: turn ordinary into extraordinary

April 2, 2024 English 6 minute(s)

When I wrote my Writing Courses for Pandaqi Tutorials, I mention the concept of “start with extraordinary”. To me, that’s the common denominator between stories that are engaging and memorable. A story that starts with something extraordinary and explores that.

Miscellaneous

Winter 2024 Update!

March 31, 2024 English 10 minute(s)

After some consideration, I decided to continue my pattern of posting an “update” article at the end of each season (3 months). It really helps keep followers up to date on my general work and projects started/finished.

Updates

Writing Tip: start with fantasies

March 30, 2024 English 10 minute(s)

This article contains another (brief) “writing tip” that you’ll rarely find anywhere, but almost feels like the “true secret sauce” of writing an engaging story. Besides writing, I also develop games.

Miscellaneous

About Radical Honesty

March 19, 2024 English 8 minute(s)

Those who’ve read previous work or articles of mine know that I have a principle to “never lie”. It’s part of a short list of simple principles that I imagined when I was a young boy.

Miscellaneous

Writing Tip: start with dilemma

March 15, 2024 English 6 minute(s)

This article contains another (brief) “writing tip” that I recently learned and have applied to great success. Disclaimer: very light spoilers for Wildebyte Arcades book 1! As I geared up to write my next Wildebyte book, I had a strong plan … and felt nothing.

Miscellaneous

[Diary] Wildebyte (Rulebreaker Recipes)

March 12, 2024 English 26 minute(s)

Welcome to the article in which I explain/track my process for writing book 2 in the Wildebyte Arcades (Rulebreaker Recipes). Because I aim to make this a long-standing series, I really wanted to flesh out the world (and its rules/limitations/possible stories) before publishing anything.

Diary

Lessons learned from revising Rulebreaker Recipes

March 12, 2024 English 10 minute(s)

The timing of this article obviously coincides with the release of the book Rulebreaker Recipes, the second book of the Wildebyte Arcades! It contains major spoilers about that book, because I initially wrote this article while revising the book and learning some important lessons.

Miscellaneous

About the threat of AI

March 10, 2024 English 7 minute(s)

I’ve written a few times before (when this blog was still Dutch) about how the populair AI systems work, their benefits and their downsides. Why I use some small parts of those services, but ignore them for the most part.

Miscellaneous

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