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Sakke Myllymäki writes and draws the online comic Enter the Fairy. His aim is to create entertaining stories about characters gay people can identify with. His comics are inspired by the adventure stories he read as teenager, but with a gay twist.
Category Archives: On Writing
Experimenting with AI
I have wanted to experiment with artificial intelligence for some time. This is more because of my professional (non-writing) interest than any real desire to profit from it in my writing. My most recent experiments have been with Chat GPT. The results have been mixed. Continue reading
Prices and Historical Fiction
In researching for my stories, I have become conscious of the importance of knowing the prices and wages. I can, of course, avoid mentioning prices, but getting it wrong, the reader is immediately out of the period. Continue reading
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What Makes a Good Story?
What makes a story gripping, so that it is almost impossible to put it down? It is not merely sufficient to have a series of interesting or entertaining events, or an important and engaging theme. So what is it that not only hooks the reader and makes them want to learn more? Continue reading
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My Ten Not Quite Rules for Writing
I wrote a list of ten rules for writing. Actually, these are not really rules. They are just my ideas, good or bad. Mainly they work for me, at least part of the time. Continue reading
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Fanfiction
Imagination is a creative force that comes from the individual soul; fantasy is a non-creative force, it comes from the imagination of others. – Iris Murdoch When I came across the quote from Iris Murdoch, I found it confusing: Isn’t fantasy … Continue reading
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