Category Archives: Storytelling

Writing Speculative Fiction as a Christian – Part 4: Afterlife and Interspecies Families

Posted on May 19, 2021 by benjaminfrog

Thanks for checking out this series! If this is the first blog you’re reading on ‘Writing Speculative Fiction as a Christian’ then please see my intro on post #1 for context on the reason I’ve put this series together. In … Continue reading →

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Writing Speculative Fiction as a Christian – Part 3: Salvation for Other Species

Posted on May 10, 2021 by benjaminfrog

Thanks for checking out this series! If this is the first blog you’re reading on ‘Writing Speculative Fiction as a Christian’ then please see my intro on post #1 for context on the reason I’ve put this series together. Last … Continue reading →

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Writing Speculative Fiction as a Christian – Part 2: Writing Humans in Other Worlds

Posted on May 5, 2021 by benjaminfrog

Thanks for checking out this series! If this is the first blog you’re reading on ‘Writing Speculative Fiction as a Christian’ then please see my intro on post #1 for context on the reason I’ve put this series together. Last … Continue reading →

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Writing Speculative Fiction as a Christian – Part 1: Writing a Multiverse

Posted on April 28, 2021 by benjaminfrog

Intro All works of fiction ask ‘what if’ questions. ‘If there was a universe where this was going on, what would happen?’ The same is true whether you’re writing science-fiction or fantasy, or some other genre with hypothetical scenarios. And … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo 2020 – Completing Act I

Posted on November 13, 2020 by benjaminfrog

Just over a third of the way through. Y’all keeping up?   So far my pace has been up and down with this project. A bout of insomnia one day left me out of commission and losing about a day’s … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Mid-Series Shake-Ups: part 2

Posted on September 16, 2020 by benjaminfrog

Today I’m finishing off the list of Top 10 Mid-Series Shake-Ups by going over numbers 6-10, because that’s how math works. Again, I’ve put them in order of most frequently used (by my reckoning), which is not the same thing … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Mid-Series Shake-Ups: Part 1

Posted on September 9, 2020 by benjaminfrog

When writing a long-running series, sometimes significant changes must occur to give the audience a sense of newness and the passage of time, or just to make sure things don’t get stale. There are a number of different things writers … Continue reading →

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Vampires Vs. Dragons

Posted on January 30, 2020 by benjaminfrog

  I feel I should preface this book release with the fact that I get excited by new and interesting ways of telling a story. The novels that I tend to write more quickly and passionately are the ones where … Continue reading →

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The Storyteller’s Handbook

Posted on October 16, 2018 by benjaminfrog

The Storyteller’s Handbook is now officially released! This is my fifth published book in total, and my first foray into the self-help genre. The art of storytelling has been a growing subject on my heart over recent years and eventually … Continue reading →

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One Punch Man – (a TV review slash analysis)

Posted on June 27, 2017 by benjaminfrog

‘One Punch Man’ – if you read that and think “How can that possibly be interesting?” then you’re right on track with understanding the basic needs of an interesting story. I myself would not have given this a try unless … Continue reading →

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