The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie recently joined my country’s Netflix line-up. For me, the first four movies can be summed up as ‘Wow’, ‘Hmmm?’, ‘Huh?’, and ‘Errr?’ So what was this one like?
Author: Martin Stellinga
I'm a science fiction and fantasy writer from the Netherlands
The Subtle Art of Being a Dad and a Writer
I read ‘the Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck‘ the past two weeks. I won’t be reviewing the book itself, rather I want to take a look at how this book applies to two important parts of my own life: being a writer and being a dad.
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Net Neutrality and Free Markets
California and several other US states are currently trying to create new net neutrality rules since the FCC abolished the ones put in place on the US federal level. What the heck is net neutrality? And why do we even need it?
Five tips for writing great characters
Today, some tips for writing, after all those rants about TV shows and politics recently.
I’ve been doing a lot with characterization this past period, so let me share some of what I learned. Here are five tips for creating better characters.
Creativity
I was reading an article in the paper recently about creativity falling in the US since the nineties (it’s in Dutch). That got me thinking.