writing – Darcy Maunder

Getting Into Digital Art: A Beginner’s Guide

If you’ve ever watched an animated movie, played a video game, seen an anime or looked at a book cover and thought, “neat!”, you might have wondered how they were made. All of these examples, in one way or another, involve digital art. Digital art is a very broad term, encompassing any art that uses…

Darcy

March 7, 2026

Post-Digital Writing, University Assignments

art, digital-art, painting, technology, writing

The Prey of Prediction

Ylena knew why the seer had chosen her, why it had asked her to… Dispose, of the infant lain before her, nothing but thin blankets and a flimsy wicker basket to shield it from the cold. Her eyes shifted to the dagger sheathed at her waist, her current favourite of the many she kept oiled and sharpened,…

Darcy

July 31, 2025

Prey of Prediction, Short Stories

fantasy, fiction, Short Stories, short-story, supernatural, tense, writing

Blind Wisdom

‘The Book of Sight is a gift from God. A tool for his will and his will alone.’The words had been spoken to the students of Syltere so many times, Evangeline was starting to wonder if they’d get stuck in her ears. It was one of the first lessons they were taught, hence why it…

Darcy

July 31, 2025

Blind Wisdom, Short Stories

books, christianity, doubt, faith, fantasy, fiction, religion, retelling, short-story, writing

PEARS Procedure: My Experience with Open-Heart Surgery

If you’ve been told you need to have the PEARS procedure, you’ve probably done the first thing that everyone does upon finding out about any new medical ‘thing’: run to Google. This is exactly what I did, and while I found endless amounts of NHS explanations, interviews with surgeons and scientific articles that my secondary…

Darcy

July 31, 2025

Articles, Health & Wellness, PEARS

health, life, mental-health, surgery, writing