Tag: author
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3rd Person POV…
There are two different types of third-person POV. The first subdivision is the third-person omniscient. I love using Lemony Snicket’s series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Mostly because the narrator creeped me out as a kid. But he was a compelling narrator in the third person omniscient. He had opinions and was not directly involved in…
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Writing In A Certain Point of View
It is somewhat likely we’ve all read books from different points of view (POV). Whether we recognize the difference initially might be another question, especially when it comes to third-person omniscient or third-person limited. Some even argue that every written word has a POV, even factual notations.
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A Brief Hiatus
Hi All! So I’m not going to be posting much over the next week or so. We were hit by a tornado so life is kinda crazy right now. Everyone is safe and fine. Just car damage, minimal apartment damage and waiting on the power to return. I’ll keep you posted in the coming weeks.
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Sillmanite Inspiration
Hello all! I hope everyone is having a good week. As I sat trying to write the next post for this week. I kinda hit a wall. So I did what I always do and researched what I was stuck on. As I researched ideas for writing a blog when you’re stuck. I came across…
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Self-Editing: Where to Start.
So you have a finished manuscript. It’s over 100,000 words (if a novel). Probably over a hundred pages, and it feels great. Or maybe sad. I’m always sad when a story ends. I haven’t figured out if that’s because my endings just don’t work or if I just love the world I created too much.…
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Grammar Friendly Foe?
To be entirely honest, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with grammar. I love it in that it really helps clarify what is being said or written. However, with the growth of online writing and messaging rather than writing letters new structures of language emerge. Which isn’t really a beast to get into here, at…
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Welcome to Sillmanite
Klytië is a coming of age novel that follows the story of a self enforced outcast that keeps getting into trouble because she is best friends with the three daughters to three of the worlds leaders. Despite a troubled past and more secrets than any one person should have she finds herself back in her…
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Small Level Story Structure
Last week, I rambled about a metaphor in story structure and how I want the story’s big picture to progress. Today I’ll hopefully provide a more legitimate theory and less abstract thought process about the parts of the beginning, middle, and end. I can’t promise to stay away from metaphors, though.
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A Metaphor in Story Structure
Have you ever considered that Wednesdays as the middle day of the week are like the mild build or second act of the week? The middle of the story can be challenging to achieve. First, you have to keep the reader’s attention and use it to propel a story forward. Wednesday also begins the sagging…
Camile Grant 