I often write when I’m tired. Does that sound weird? Sometimes, I do it quite on purpose. Not because I’m trying to push through the fatigue or anything so banal, but because writing lifts me out of it. I’ve dozed…
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Sun in the sky and hands in the dirt Winter is the worst. I know some people love it and while I really don’t have anything against it, I mean, it’s never done anything to me personally, it just feels…
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Story pacing – keeping your readers hooked, line by line Story pacing is another tool in our writing toolbox. When we talk about story pacing, we’re not referring to how fast a story takes place or the calendar time over…
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The art of spelling – don’t let autocorrect steal your magic The art of spelling is a dying one, it seems. In this age of smartphones and, okay, smart everything, they all come with a default autocorrect or automated dictionary…
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What’s a Dialogue Tag? Dialogue tags are narrator interjections, sometimes referred to as attribution, that note who speak the pieces of dialogue in your story. Historically, we were taught that adverbs included in the tags, describing how dialogue is delivered,…
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Magpie of research data that I am, here’s some more of my reference, this time on Egyptian magic. Sad to say, when I scratched down my handwritten notes at the library, I didn’t fully document sources (I know, I should…
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Upping my game this past year or so involved creating associations I never braved before. And most of them had some sort of “interview” component that included wanting to know about my writing process. Y’know, so people can get to…
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My desk – my real home, my one true love, a love story A writer’s desk. I suppose it has to do with the “behind the scenes” aspect of what we do, but people are curious about them, aren’t they?…
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Motivation and inspiration? You mean how bad do you want it Motivation and inspiration are two of those things writers lament, cry, and gnash their teeth over. Not to say it’s not frustrating as all get-out as a writer to…
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There’s a reason why I write about fantasy magic – magic is my most favourite thing! And I don’t mean only practical magic as a modern Druid, I mean magic of every kind, real or imagined. Although, to be fair,…
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