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Anna Tizard

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I tried to categorise my books in a more sensible way (they’re currently "Weird-wonderful", "Quite Serious" and "Meh") but the cross-overs were just too many - and then I realised that I actually like this.

We’re living in an amazing era for fiction where genre writing can and should be as delicious and nutritious as the “best” literary work (and some of these high-brow prize-winning books could learn a thing or two about plotting from their genre neighbours). Fantasy for children is also enormous fun for (people pretending to be) adults. Why differentiate?

I write Deeply Weird fiction. Lately this involves making up stories based on a random word game called Exquisite Corpse; my favourite thing is to explore the strangeness of the human mind
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Anna Tizard Writer's block is a good thing. It is your unconscious mind saying, "I can't write this." It means there is something wrong with your story, or that s…moreWriter's block is a good thing. It is your unconscious mind saying, "I can't write this." It means there is something wrong with your story, or that some vital elements are missing. This is good because it means you understand on an intuitive level what a story needs and that your current piece falls short of that. It might take some time for the answers to rise into your conscious mind, but have faith that they will come.

Every story you write is a unique puzzle to be solved.

Go for a long walk; talk to yourself about it while you do the washing up; try writing a stream of consciousness note, asking yourself questions. What is it? What's missing? What's wrong?

The answers won't come immediately - not all of them, anyway. Write what ideas you have now, then let the story and your notes rest while you turn your attention to another, unrelated piece of writing. When you come back to it, your mind will be fresh and something will have occurred to you, or some small spark will have lit within you that tells you it's time.

Solve the puzzle. Write out the characters' intentions, and where the story will take them. List all the emotional and action-based "beats" of the story. Now you are ready.(less)
Anna Tizard I experiment with ideas from stories using the results of a crazy word game, Exquisite Corpse, that randomly splices words together. The words "the em…moreI experiment with ideas from stories using the results of a crazy word game, Exquisite Corpse, that randomly splices words together. The words "the empty danger" featured in a game result and that got me wondering what that could mean: "fear" seemed one possibility. Like many people during lockdown, fear has taken on a whole new meaning. I wrote this short novel partly to face my fears and partly to try and help give others a sense of hope.(less)
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There's something magical about this book. From the very first line, the narrative crooks its finger at you and you just have to follow - down the streets of old Budapest, into old houses just groaning with memories that won't stay buried. Mihaly's aching nostalgia centres around his oddball childhood friends, a brother and sister whose Read more of this blog post »
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Portals and Immortals by Anna Tizard
"This is a very interesting read.
Each chapter is a new story, and the author takes a bizarre sentence from a word game (Exquisite Corpse) and weaves it into an adventure.
The podcast it is based on is Brainstoryum.

It never gets tiresome, because you ne" Read more of this review »
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"I received a complimentary copy of Portals and Immortals from the author via Voracious Readers
Only, and I am leaving a voluntary honest review.

Portals and Immortals is a collection of short stories inspired by the word game of Exquisite Corpse.
I thin" Read more of this review »
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"Now why would anyone ever send me this type of book? I have never, never , well ever read a book like this. Why would you think to do this? I'm a little old 70 year old man and I have never read a book of this type! Never.
Well I also filled with mann" Read more of this review »
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“There's a reason why books are shaped like doors; you open them up, they take you somewhere else. The mind is a strange place and what's inside yours might also be inside someone else's, or may overlap into another place entirely. The only way to know is to read, imagine, and follow the secrets that unfold in Anna Tizard's Deeply Weird fiction.
Dip a toe. Dive in. Don’t look back.”
Anna Tizard

“Impossible.
Sunk on its haunches in a predatory pose, a creature spread its long, curled fingers over the tiles on the roof, sniffing them. Its mottled, olive-grey skin winked in the uncertain March sunlight. Truly, a thing that didn’t belong here in ordinary suburbia, overlooking a garden that burst with beauty and life.”
Anna Tizard, The Empty Danger

“Impossible.
Sunk on its haunches in a predatory pose, a creature spread its long, curled fingers over the tiles on the roof, sniffing them. Its mottled, olive-grey skin winked in the uncertain March sunlight. Truly, a thing that didn’t belong here in ordinary suburbia, overlooking a garden that burst with beauty and life.”
Anna Tizard, The Empty Danger

“There's a reason why books are shaped like doors; you open them up, they take you somewhere else. The mind is a strange place and what's inside yours might also be inside someone else's, or may overlap into another place entirely. The only way to know is to read, imagine, and follow the secrets that unfold in Anna Tizard's Deeply Weird fiction.
Dip a toe. Dive in. Don’t look back.”
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