Never knew world building dragons could be so much fun. Stuck in your fantasy story? Try doing some image searches. I want dragons in my latest WIP Devortus Reigns. Never used them before. The creatures need to be different…somehow. On to Pinterest and Google Images. I already have a Fantasy/Mystical Creatures board. Follow Auden’s board…
I attended the webinar How to Blog Meaningfully and Grow Your Audience by Jane Friedman and Writer’s Digest University. She said a list of links can drive more traffic to your blog. I’ve seen other sites do this. I visit SF Signal everyday for their SF/F/H Link Post. My resource pages have the most pageviews. I…
Multiple POV characters is like having ten voices in your head. I’m worried I got the voices mixed up. Or worse, they all sound the same. Writing ten POV characters is tiring. Sometimes I just throw stuff in because I don’t want to deal with them. In the editing stages, how do you make sure…
A career molds how a character views the world. For instance, writers see stories in everything. I use job and career interchangeably because, in my series, the word career doesn’t exist. In The Sciell, I didn’t have to worry about careers. The characters lived in a small community. They didn’t have any career aspirations. Most…
My least favorite season was winter. There’s no escaping the cold and then the snow…the snow turns a 3 hour train ride into a 6 hour nightmare. It messes up roads. It turns sidewalks into ice slides. But, the snow is starting to grow on me. Until this year, I hadn’t played in it since…
I admire those who can write everyday. I’ve tried. It’s not for me. I have a short attention span. It hasn’t been a problem in the past because I’ve always needed to multitask. I may not write everyday, but I get enough work done to finish/publish a handful of stories. Now, I need to go…
