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Benjamin Appleby-Dean

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean is a complex event sometimes mistaken for a writer. When recognisably human, they live in the North-East of England with their wife and a collection of dysfunctional animals.

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean She looked into the deep red and saw a spiral of bodies, bloated and crushed, coiling down down into the void.
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She looked into the deep red and saw a spiral of bodies, bloated and crushed, coiling down down into the void.
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Benjamin Appleby-Dean That people are not clear-cut shapes but messy, ever-changing outlines shaped by everything we encounter from moment to moment. We are complex events …moreThat people are not clear-cut shapes but messy, ever-changing outlines shaped by everything we encounter from moment to moment. We are complex events rather than fixed points. We resemble instead of becoming.(less)
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The Stickman's Legacy

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A Squire's Tale

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Gamedev Community Podcast: Constructive Narrative Writing

I'm a guest in the latest episode of the GameDev.tv Community Podcast, talking about my new game and narrative design in gaming:
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“When life ends it's like a book losing pages or a song skipping. It's abrupt and it doesn't make sense.”
Benjamin Appleby-Dean, The Stickman's Legacy

“Time goes faster when it's spent
On slowing steps to look behind
To let the spool of years unwind
And dream of all my yesterdays”
Benjamin Appleby-Dean, Cold Stone Secrecy: Twelve Poems

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.”
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“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
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Olivia-Savannah You're welcome! Thank you for sending through some recommendations :)


Virginia Ronan ♥ Herondale ♥ Hey Benjamin!
You're welcome! =) Glad we became friends.


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Nenia Campbell Hello! Thank you so much for friending me! I'm glad you enjoy my posts. You seem cool. :D


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