writing advice Archives - Auden Johnson

Writing Emotions Readers Can Feel

I was reading a pretty interesting book. However, for some reason, I had moments where I couldn’t fully immerse myself in the […]

Never assume you’re bad at something until you get a 2nd or 3rd opinion. I used to think I was bad a […]

All the advice said writing a fantasy series is better than several standalone books. Despite, that, when I first started thinking about […]

Whether or not authors should read their own book reviews has been a topic written about a lot. Some people say yes. […]

Often novel writing, especially with fantasy books, is about using a setting you can’t see. Some people are fortunate enough to plan […]

We all have those moments while creating a novel or short story when we think our current work-in-progress is terrible. No one […]

I abandoned one book because I realized halfway through that I hadn’t read most of it. The story seemed to be 90% […]

“The great mass of trees looked like a tomb, in which my house lay buried.” (from Who Knows? by Guy de Maupassant) […]

There’s a lot of advice out there for fantasy writers. It comes from a lot of different places: agents, publishers, editors, writing […]

There’s a ton of advice out there on how to deal with bad reviews. They like to say “dwell on the good […]