Monthly Archive: May 2015
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing Fantasy 1. Be authentic This might sound like a contradiction, but to make your readers believe in and appreciate all things fantastic, you need to first give them...
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”–Ernest Hemingway This week’s challenges are a little different. I found myself thinking about how we get...
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing as a Career 1. Find the balance between writing what you love and what will sell. Sometimes you have to face the reality that the kind...
As writers, we try to avoid clichés and work to create something original. But sometimes, you can turn to those same assumptions and subvert them into something interesting and unexpected. By playing off old...
Guess that Caption! This is a simple game where every other week, I’ll post a photo which has something to do with reading/ writing/ words and your job is to guess the caption of...
South Korean science fiction film. Probably not a common export from the small country living in somewhat fear from their communist other half, but yet here it is. Don’t let its origin scare you...
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” ― J.K. Rowling “The world is full of magic things,...
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Terry Pratchett If everything can be believed about the way Sir Terry lived his life (and I think most of it can be) then it was equally...