Writing Fantasy Gender Stereotypes – Part Two: Writing the Opposite Gender
Faith M. Boughan
This is Part Two of a series on Writing Fantasy Gender Stereotypes. If you missed Part One you can read it here. This past July, I attended Polaris, a sci-fi…
Writing
Worldbuilding for Fantasy Writers
Leo Elijah Cristea
Worldbuilding: that old mainstay of fantasy that is as much like Marmite as…well, Marmite. Some writers live for worldbuilding, for the meticulous crafting of worlds and settings which they subsequently…
Writer’s Den: What’s in a Name?
Thomas A. Knight
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Or so wrote the great William Shakespeare. But would it really? Names are important in fiction. It’s hard to identify…
Commas…The Continuing Story
Lady Rosalie Skinner
You can read Part One, Commas…To Avoid Confusion, here. Commas. The story continues to unfold. In this second installment, we will take a quick look at how commas work with…
Choosing Between Independent Publishers
Marc Davies
You spent years pouring your heart and soul into your manuscript. You polished it up to be the best that it can be, and you slogged through seemingly endless submission…
Story Structure – Part 12: The End: Wrapping Up Your Stories
Amy Rose Davis
You can read the rest of the Story Structure series here: Part 1 – Story Structure: Beginnings Part 2 – Revisiting the Three-Act Structure Part 3 – In the Beginning……
Finding The Spark
Sandra Norval
I’m taking a breather from my climb up Mount Publication. I couldn’t resist because I arrived at a lovely little village and someone invited me to a party. “You’ll love…
An Unholy Love: Me and My Ellipses
I recently re-read my novel Ravenmarked, and I had a rather eye-opening realization: I have an unholy love of ellipses. It’s always kind of scary to read things you wrote…
Writer’s Den: Using Feedback to Better Your Work
Writing a book is hard. Nobody told me this when I started writing my first novel. I went in blind thinking, “Hey, I can do this, it’s just words right?”…
The Colon
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the much maligned and unjustly despised semicolon. Okay, that was kind of biased wasn’t it? It’s pretty clear that you’ll have to pry my…
Story Structure – Part 10: The Art of the Subplot (part 2)
You can read the rest of the Story Structure series here: Part 1 – Story Structure: Beginnings Part 2 – Revisiting the Three-Act Structure Part 3 – In the Beginning……
What Not To Do At A Reading
Ashley Barnard
My trip to California last month marked a memorable occasion: I did my first book signing in my hometown, at the bookstore where I practically grew up, The Avid Reader…
