Tag: story
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Showing vs Telling In Dialogue
Dialogue is essential often times in creating the necessary conflict in stories. But it is difficult to do mostly because of the easy short cuts that tell a reader everything the dialogue is supposed to convey. Take for example this exchange: “I’m fine,” she sighed even though she wasn’t fine. Nothing was fine. Cool. Okay…
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Diverging Character Voices
In the glorious process of editing, I’ve been re-reading scenes, dialogue, and sentences. Perhaps one of the biggest concerns I’ve started coming to terms with is that I can’t tell if my character voices actually sound different or if they’re all still sounding the same. Part of the problem, is there are a lot of…
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#Friday no Saturday Free Write
Whoops forgot to post this yesterday. Enjoy! Catherine was sitting on the hard wooden chair. While it was mighty uncomfortable, the stares she was receiving from the guardians of Cael were worse. When her soul had left her body, she had expected it to instantly be sent down to Cimmerian. Dea knew she deserved it.…
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Friday Free Write – The Old Oak Tree
” There are at least seventeen ways this could have gone better. Literally, like, I’m counting them right now, you moron,” Mylonite’s sword whacked away one of the absurd little mutant turtles as they tried to grab their ankles again. One of them caught Andrea’s sword in a firm grasp, but before she tumbled into…
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Spaceship Creation Time
I didn’t accomplish much writing this weekend, but I did spend a lot of time designing spaceships for Peregrina. I can already tell you I’m definitely going for soft science fiction. My fiance is an engineer, and I’ve always been more of a biologist, historian, and geology-type scientist. The hard math is a hard pass.
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#Free Write Fridays
Hi All! For July (Yes technically this isn’t the first Friday in July) Going to give free write Fridays a try. So I’ll share free writes and feel free to give feed back!
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Stuck in the Middle
I always have trouble with the middle parts of a story and scene. Even reading I tend to get bored easily especially now with tv and social media. But at the same time, the middle can really build or set up crucial parts especially in longer series. It’s great for foreshadowing. Starting other plot devices.…
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Written Scenes Too Much Too Little?
Hello! Hope you all are having an excellent start to the week. Going through Klytië’s manuscript, I realized in all the rewrites, I added and removed details for various plot points that don’t actually mean anything. I have little scenes within larger scenes and go from extensive descriptions to barely any. There are some sections…
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My Favorite Podcasts RN
Like I said the other week, I love having white noise but lately I’ve gotten into podcasts. Especially as an easy way to learn tips and tricks while cleaning my apartment or cooking or sketching ideas. So here are some of the ones I’ve really come to enjoy.
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Longer Books & Series Going Out of Style?
I recently read an article about how the average length of published books decreased by about fifty pages. It got me thinking about how longer series that tell a larger story through multiple books retain readership?
Camile Grant 