The Power of Unfiltered Stories: Writing Without Looking Over Your Shoulder
The Courage to Be Uncomfortable: Writing Without Fear of Retribution “The best stories are always about the people. You can have the most incredible setting, the most amazing plot, but if you don’t care about the people in the story, it won’t matter.” — Matthew Reilly Fear is one of the greatest barriers to creativity.
Read MoreFear as a Catalyst: How Dark Matter Uses Fear to Drive the Story Forward
The Courage to Be Uncomfortable: Writing Without Fear of Retribution “The best stories are always about the people. You can have the most incredible setting, the most amazing plot, but if you don’t care about the people in the story, it won’t matter.” — Matthew Reilly Fear is one of the greatest barriers to creativity.
Read MoreThe Courage to Be Uncomfortable: Writing Without Fear of Retribution
The Courage to Be Uncomfortable: Writing Without Fear of Retribution “The best stories are always about the people. You can have the most incredible setting, the most amazing plot, but if you don’t care about the people in the story, it won’t matter.” — Matthew Reilly Fear is one of the greatest barriers to creativity.
Read MoreStories Around the Fire: The Magic of Sharing Dark Tales During the Holidays
Writing Without Chains: Letting Your Imagination Run Wild There’s this perpetual myth about creativity—that it’s born from light, joy, and inspiration. However, ask any writer, ask any artist, ask any musician, and they’ll all say one thing: from darkness comes some of the most powerful art. Not coloured “negative”, at least in storytelling—anger and fear
Read MoreDancing with Shadows: Embracing Your Inner Demons in Storytelling
Dancing with Shadows: Embracing Your Inner Demons in Storytelling “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” — H.P. Lovecraft Do you have Inner Demons? There’s this perpetual myth about creativity—that it’s born from light, joy, and inspiration. However, ask any
Read MoreWriting Without Chains: Letting Your Imagination Run Wild
Writing Without Chains: Letting Your Imagination Run Wild Mostly for all of us, whenever we sit down to write, or even daydream, an invisible censor sits perched on our shoulder: you can’t write that; that’s too dark; too strange; too inflammatory. But what happens if you silence that voice? When you let your imagination run
Read More5 Writing Lessons I Learned from Exploring the Shadows
5 Writing Lessons I Learned from Exploring the Shadows Lessons I Learned writing Dark Matter was an experience like no other. It wasn’t just about creating a story—it was about diving into my deepest fears, questions, and ideas about the universe. Along the way, I discovered lessons that transformed how I approach storytelling. Here are
Read MoreFear as a Mirror: Why Do We Crave Stories That Unsettle Us
Fear as a Mirror: Why Do We Crave Stories That Unsettle Us Why do we actively seek out stories that unsettle us? Whether it’s a spine-chilling ghost story or a psychological thriller that keeps us awake at night, there’s something undeniably compelling about fiction that disturbs the mind. Fear, as it turns out, is one
Read MoreThe Fascination with the Multiverse: What If There’s Another You?
The Fascination with the Multiverse: What If There’s Another You? The multiverse is one of the most intriguing ideas in modern storytelling, and for good reason. What if there were infinite versions of you living infinite lives? What if, in another universe, you’d made completely different choices? Or what if someone else’s reality spilled into
Read MoreWhy Morally Grey Characters Are the Most Memorable
Why Morally Grey Characters Are the Most Memorable There’s a reason we can’t stop talking about certain fictional characters. It’s not always the virtuous hero or their pure-hearted sidekick that lingers in our minds—it’s the characters who tread the fine line between good and evil. Morally grey characters have a remarkable way of capturing both
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