Hannah Collins

Hannah is a contributor to the Standoutbooks blog. Since graduating from Lancaster University in England with a joint degree in Fine Art and Creative Writing, she currently splits her time between writing, drawing, designing, podcasting, and working across the libraries of South Wales, where she and her ever-growing comic book collection also live.
7 Ways You’re Treating Your Novel Like A Screenplay (And How To Stop) - An author writes, picturing a film set.
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Hannah Collins

7 Ways You’re Treating Your Novel Like A Screenplay (And How To Stop)

It doesn’t take a genius to see the differences between a novel and a screenplay. They look different on the page, what with the screenplay’s centered text, block-capital names, and bracketed direction. Not only that, but screenplays tend to be far thinner on the page count, too. You can roll one up pretty easily and use

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Writing Loki – Why Your Novel Needs A Trickster - The Norse god Loki holds up a glowing scepter.
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Hannah Collins

Writing Loki – Why Your Novel Needs A Trickster

Mischievous and chaotic, the trickster is a character archetype that recurs throughout mythology, folklore, literature and pop culture. This is, in part, thanks to its boundless flexibility: tricksters can be good, evil or amoral; hero or villain; help or hindrance; spiteful or angelic; comic-relief, obstacle, gatekeeper, sidekick and/or henchperson. Despite this ambiguity of role, essayist Paul

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How To Give Your Hero Some Personality - Two bland characters stand on pedestals, while a third, more lively, steps forward.
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Hannah Collins

How To Give Your Hero Some Personality

Despite what Isabel Briggs Myers has taught us, real people’s personalities can usually be difficult to fit comfortably into neat little categories. People can be both introverted and extroverted, and go from being supremely self-confident to shrinking violets depending on their situation. The task of imbuing something as complex and unique as a personality onto

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Is A Creative Writing Degree Worth Your Time (And Money)? - A graduate celebrates.
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Hannah Collins

Is A Creative Writing Degree Worth Your Time (And Money)?

I got my Creative Writing degree by accident. My college, in the UK, was unusual in requiring first-year students to pick an additional subject in their first year – partly to widen their interests, and partly as an escape route if their first choice wasn’t everything they hoped . My major was Fine Art, so

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